Je continue ici mes recherches et mon travail sur la thématique de l’eau avec des travaux picturaux, des objets, des photographies et des vidéos. L’Afrique du Sud connait depuis plusieurs années de gros problèmes d’accès à l’eau douce. Victime du phénomène climatique El Niño, Le Cap sera la première grande ville du monde à manquer […]
Robin with our dearest Wendy Luhabe at the Cartier Lunch at the Test Kitchen in Cape Town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Jhb Art Fair. Two truly beautiful people… […]
Definitely two of our strongest pillars In a morning conversation at A4art, a quiet moment before the lunch co- hosted at the Cape Town newly born Foundation by the Basel Art Fair. A4art will be a major player in the sustainability and underpinning of the global wave of interest for African Contemporary Art. Thank you […]
AFSACSA is pleased to welcome Artist @nelsonmakamo for his 10-week residency. […]
BY MARY CORRIGALL, JANUARY 21 2016, 07:50 WILLEM Boshoff’s new solo exhibition, Reap the Whirlwind, has you reaching for a dictionary — or at least Google. Is there a word for someone who obsessively studies dictionaries, searching for patterns? An online search reveals a few related preoccupations; linguist, hieroglyphist and semiotician. No doubt Boshoff’s idiosyncratic […]
CURATED BY ANDREW LAMPRECHT With an increasing focus on African Art around the world, Eclectica Contemporary aims to present a carefully selected and focused collection of art from the continent that interrogates the issues facing us in a globalized world. The art that Eclectica will show includes practices and materials familiar from art history but […]
Maja Marx approaches painting as a practice essentially concerned with the optical activation of surface. She transcribes the gentle folds of cloth, folded and creased paper, the corrugations of cardboard, onto the linen of her canvasses. Insofar as these paintings are studies of objects, they are also arguably still lives. However, the fixation on surface […]
Robin Rhode. Photo credit: Nils Müller / Wertical Diana d’Arenberg For the past couple of decades Berlin has become an international art world Mecca attracting more than 20,000 artists from around the world, including some of the biggest names in contemporary art: Tacita Dean, French artist Bernard Frize, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, and American artist […]
AT A time when values for some blue-chip contemporary artworks have fallen by a third from a year ago, collectors are finding pockets of strength in a surprising new art mecca — Africa…. Click to continue reading […]
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