[08.03.09] Noria Mabasa at Bell-Roberts Gallery
While Katharine Jacobs raises some concerns about the mounting of her exhibition, the inclusion of work by family and others as well as some other artefacts, she concludes that Noria Mabasa is still 'producing interesting, engaging sculpture, still acting as a mentor for other aspirant artists... still coming to grips with her medium in compelling ways.

STUDENT REVIEWS

   [08.03.09] 'Supermarket' at Muti Gallery
Honour's student Tim Leibbrant reviews 'Supermarket' at Muti Gallery, a group show which, he argues, fails to exploit either the artists included on the show or its space on the fringes of the city.

   [08.03.09] 'Intimate Distance' at Iziko Sang
Brothers Matthew and James King, both students at Michaelis, play with the format of reviewing, in an appropriately speculative piece of writing about Iziko SANG's 'Intimate Distance'.

   [08.03.09] Self/Not-self I at Brodie/Stevenson
In reviewing 'Self/Not-self I' Cara Snyman casts doubt on the decision to split the show in two, but concedes that because of the strength of the work on exhibition, it 'manages to go beyond its own brief to explore, amongst others, an interpretation of the self as artist'.

   [09.03.09] Sicelo V. S. Ziqubu at artSPACE Durban
Sicelo Ziqubu's works at artSPACE Durban made quite an impression on Peter Machen, who is initially overwhelmed by the sheer mass of work present, but concludes that to show anything less than all would amount to travesty.

   [08.03.09] Uhambo - Nicholas Hlobo at the Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London
Amy Halliday reviews Nicholas Hlobo's 'Uhambo' at London's Tate Modern. While not without criticism of the show, she is impressed with the young artist's engagement with materials and processes, whereby he 'melds the traditional with the modern, while probing too the evocative sensuality of the in-between'. The gallery's accompanying publications are very thorough too, she notes.

   [08.03.09] Samson Mnisi and Cannon Hersey 'From Johannesburg to New York' at MoCADA - Brooklyn, New York
'From Johannesburg to New York', a collaborative exhibition by Samson Mnisi and Cannon Hersey at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art in Brooklyn, evoked much enthusiasm in attendees at the opening. However, argues Nina Barnett, on closer inspection, the collaboration feels unresolved.

   [08.03.09] Jeff Koons at the Chateau de Versailles
Lucky enough to be in Europe over December and January, Gauteng Editor Cara Snyman delivers this 'postcard', a look at Jeff Koons's recent exhibition at Versailles in France.