African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century
R1000Far-reaching in its scope, African Art Now celebrates the diversity and dynamism of the contemporary African art scene across the continent today.
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African Artists: From 1882 to Now
R1500Modern and Contemporary African art is at the forefront of the current curatorial and collector movement in today’s art scene. This groundbreaking new book, created in collaboration with a prestigious global advisory board, represents the most substantial appraisal of contemporary artists born or based in Africa available
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Anna van der Ploeg: Omens in Hot Bacon Contradiction
R180This exhibition presents a new body of work created by Anna van der Ploeg at the David Krut Workshop (DKW). Through oil paintings, etching editions and monotypes, Van der Ploeg continues to probe notions of performativity, concealment, and tenderness in social interactions.
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Anthea Moys: At my own risk
R115This exhibition catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘At my own risk’ at the Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
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Art and the Devil
R550A memoir by South African painter Reshada Crouse in which she speaks candidly about life, art, and courage.
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August House is Dead, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg Atelier
R350When the sale of the building seems imminent, not only must the artists face the daunting prospect of relocation, but a remarkable chapter in the complex narrative of contemporary South African art seems about to close. Sensing the importance of this moment, Kim Gurney, herself a former tenant of the atelier, follows the stories of several of the August House denizens through some of the artworks that came to life in their studios.
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Out of stockBlack Looks, White Myths
Catalogue of the first ever Biennale, Africus ’95 in Johannesburg bringing together eighteen South African and four Spanish artists reflecting the extreme diversity of these artists’ professional backgrounds and creative techniques
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Out of stockBreyten Breytenbach: The 81 ways of letting go a late self
R300While a South African audience might be more familiar with Breytenbach as a writer, he initially studied at the Michaelis School of Art. Breytenbach held his first solo exhibition of paintings in 1964, the same year he published his first volume of poems (Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet) and his first book of prose (Katastrofes). It took place at Galerie Espace in Amsterdam, where Breytenbach shared the roster with Karel Appel and Francesco Clemente, among others.
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Clay Formes
R1200This publication offers enthusiasts and collectors a glimpse into the studios of thirty important South African artists, born between 1941 and 1998, revealing the richness of both contemporary clay and ceramic tradition within South African art
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David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion and Democracy
R1515This book is a selective retrospective of David Goldblatt (born 1930), a key figure in 20th-century photography. Starting from his earliest photographic series, it shows the foundations of Goldblatt’s critical passion for photography, his social sensitivity and political consciousness. Also presented are his most recent photographs pertaining to the changing situation in his native South…
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Domestic Scenes – William Kentridge (Signed)
R4000Domestic Scenes feature the entire 54 images of Kentridge’s early series of work Domestic Scenes (1980). Domestic Scenes is published by Steidl, an international publisher of photobooks, and features an exquisite hard cover design with Kentridge’s signature on the cover page and a beautiful A1 poster of a photograph of young William Kentridge in his Parktown studio in Johannesburg, South Africa.
There are 16 variations of the book available, each distinct with a different front cover image of one of the works in the Domestic Scenes series. Clients are welcomed and encouraged to ask for the front cover variation that they would like.
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Fictional Geographies
R990This is the first, self-published catalogue of Phumlani Ntuli’s work. It serves as a personal archive around his artistic practice, focusing on three major exhibitions that took place between 2021 and 2022.
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Gary Schneider, Handbook of South African Artists
Original price was: R560.R150Current price is: R150.In 2011, on a trip to South Africa for an exhibition, Gary Schneider began a series of handprint portraits of South African artists. Having grown up in South Africa, which he left in 1977 at the age of twenty-three, Schneider realised that this would not be an overview of South African art but rather a way to reconnect with a country that still has an enormous influence on his work.
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Gerard T. Bhengu
R750Gerard T. Bhengu, born in 1910 in Centocow, KwaZulu-Natal, was a visionary South African artist celebrated for his intricate portrayals of rural African life and Zulu culture.
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I Make Art
R250I Make Art restages John Baldessari’s I am Making Art (1971) following his 1970 Class Assignments (Optional) to ‘Imitate Baldessari in Actions and Speech. Video’. Baldessari’s gestural playfulness, copied, repeated and appropriated by a South African woman artist, becomes a strained signifier of accumulated otherness in its repetitious shorthand indexing of Western art categorisations: I Make African Art, I Make Contemporary Arab Art, I Make Craft, I Make Feminist Art, I Make Performance Art, I Make Digital Art, I Make Protest Art, I Make Interdisciplinary Art, I Make Deconstructive Art.
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Out of stockKarel Nel: Close and Far
R1195The book explores Nel’s wide-ranging interests and engagement with the role of drawing as a discipline, as a form of notation for exploring thought and consciousness in interpreting self, the world and the universe at large.
