Archive: Issue No. 44, April 2001

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MONTHLY ISSUE NO. 44 APR 2001 Updated weekly on Tuesdays

This year's FNB Vita Award finalists

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Dave Southwood
People who other people think look like me (detail), 2001
at the Oudshoorn KKNK

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Dias & Riedweg in South Africa

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Inferno and Paradiso at the SANG

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	Last week: Well, it wouldn't be the FNB Vitas unless a new controversy was set up, would it. In an opinion piece in News, one of the judges, Virginia MacKenny, wonders whether it is appropriate for other artistic skills such as curatorship to have come into the reckoning of which artists should be the finalists. Should it not purely and simply be artistic excellence? What do you think? Email us. Choose one: The Vitas should be judged on artistic excellence alone All round artistic engagement should be considered There is little doubt that the international profile of artists from South Africa is on the up and up. Just check international listings. This week, new listings include Mozambique, Brussels and New York - and next week, a listing will appear for a major show for Candice Breitz in Linz, Austria.
	CAPE Do not on any acount miss the three new shows which have opened in adjacent galleries at the SANG - curated separately, the three - 'Inferno and Paradise', 'In View of You' and 'Exchange Values: Images of Invisible Lives' resonate amazingly off each other. GAUTENG Note down Thursday May 3: the Tandoor in Rockey Street will hosts a large-scale video projection piece by Brazilian-Swiss collaborative pair, Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, to be installed on the roof garden. KWAZULU-NATAL Namibian printmaker Herbert Mbamba is showing at the BAT. INTERNATIONAL Jose Ferreira curates a new show of video art in Maputo, Mozambique.
	Kathryn Smith reviews 'Shift ... in consciousness' at Camouflage. Sue Williamson looks back at Oudsthoorn.
	Virginia MacKenny raises questions about the FNB Vita award processes.
	Artist/curator Thomas Mulcaire is featured this month
	REDzine is ArtThrob's choice for April - plus lots of other links
	'Present' by David Claerbout
	In Cape Town, Public Eye's Softsell gets a Jumpstart.
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