• Johannes Phokela, I like my neighbours

    Johannes Phokela, I like my neighbours

    R250

    While Johannes Phokela’s work is, at first glance, an irreverent representation of Western art history, it is the cultural and political consumption of pictures that interests him most. He is a voracious consumer of imagery, drawing not only on the iconic works of the European Masters – Rubens, Van Dyck, Caravaggio – but also on newspapers, magazines and the Internet. His is an ambitious exploration of the import of received art history on the one hand and the seemingly endless proliferation of images in popular culture on the other.

  • Kahlo

    Kahlo

    R250

    The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.

  • Kay Hassan: Urbanation

    Kay Hassan: Urbanation

    R150

    This exhibition seeks to look at the disillusion which many Black South Africans face with the advent of democracy. “A disillusion which [we] are complacent about, especially those of us who are privileged… It is this complacency that Urbanation seeks to tear asunder, though be it in the most poetic of ways.”

  • Light on a Hill: Building The Constitutional Court of South Africa

    Light on a Hill: Building The Constitutional Court of South Africa

    R500

    The new Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated in 2004, ten years after the demise of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections that brought the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela to power. The historic new building was the work of a team of young South African architects who had won the international competition for the design and building of the Court. Shortly after the opening of the Court, David Krut Publishing was approached to manage a competition for the design of a book on the architecture of this important building. The book design competition was won by Adele Prins of Flow Design and work on the book began in 2005.

  • Mapula: Embroidery and Empowerment in the Winterveld

    Mapula: Embroidery and Empowerment in the Winterveld

    R250

    In Mapula: Embroidery and Empowerment in the Winterveld, Brenda Schmahmann discusses the complex circumstances that resulted in the founding of Mapula in 1991, when the Winterveld was part of the former ‘homeland’ of Bophuthatswana. The Mapula Embroidery Project in the Winterveld is one of the most important community art projects in South Africa.

  • Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art

    Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art

    R550

    Born in Cotonou, Benin in 1961, Meschac Gaba moved to the Netherlands in 1996 to take up a residency at the Rijksakademie. It was there that he conceived Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997 – 2002, an ambitious work, that took him five years to complete and that cemented his reputation as one of the most important artists working today.

  • Meschac Gaba: Tresses and Other Recent Projects

    Meschac Gaba: Tresses and Other Recent Projects

    R200

    This catalogue features an essay by Johannesburg Art Gallery curator Khwezi Gule, and an interview with Gaba by Joost Bosland highlighting the importance of humour and play in Gaba’s work.

  • Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life exhibition book

    Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life exhibition book

    R450

    This lavishly illustrated paperback with exposed spine detail accompanies the first UK retrospective of Olafur Eliasson’s work.

  • Paul Edmunds - Aggregate

    Paul Edmunds – Aggregate

    R160

    Artist’s Monograph

     

  • Personal Affects: Power and Politics in Contemporary South African Art Vol. 2

    Personal Affects: Power and Politics in Contemporary South African Art Vol. 2

    R200

    This 128-page supplement to the Personal Affects catalogue features photographs and an essay documenting the exhibition and performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Museum for African Art, New York.

  • Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa

    Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa

    R150

    An essential guide to this important aspect of South African art, this book provides a comprehensive overview of printmaking in South Africa, replacing the now outdated monograph by F. L. Alexander.

  • Sale! Production for Graphic Designers - 5th Edition

    Production for Graphic Designers – 5th Edition

    Original price was: R360.Current price is: R200.

    Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production. To keep pace with these far-reaching changes, Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age.

  • Red Star Over Russia (Softcover)

    Red Star Over Russia (Softcover)

    R940

    A revolution in visual culture 1905 – 1955.

    In exploring the intersection of art, politics and society, few collections in the world can compare with the David King collection. David King (1943-2016) was not only a passionate collector, but also an artist, designer and historian. Over a lifetime he amassed one of the world’s largest collections of Soviet political art and photographs. Every step of the Soviet journey is documented in visual media, photomontage, photographs, paintings, handwritten notes, books (signed with annotations and marginalia), enclosures and ephemera.

  • Robin Rhode - Who Saw Who

    Robin Rhode – Who Saw Who

    R250

    Robin Rhode’s art uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty, the politics of leisure and the commodification of youth culture. The artist has a reputation for brilliantly inventive performances, photography and video animation in which drawing plays a crucial role. In his works, which are often created on the street, Rhode interacts…

  • RW: Rachel Whiteread (Modern Artists)

    RW: Rachel Whiteread (Modern Artists)

    R200

    Rachel Whiteread solidifies space. Employing materials that include concrete, plaster, resin and rubber to mould not the objects themselves but the areas within or around them, she has single-handedly expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture.

  • Sarah Lucas (Tate Modern Artist Series)

    Sarah Lucas (Tate Modern Artist Series)

    R150

    During a career that has brought her controversy and acclaim in equal measure, Sarah Lucas has made art from the discarded and unexpected, incorporating such diverse materials as cigarettes, food, second-hand furniture and