Archive: Issue No. 51, November 2001

28.11.01 A gentle, harmonious career
Sue Williamson pays tribute to Joe Wolpe, the doyen of South African art dealers who is currently holding his first solo show cum retrospective at the AVA

21.11.01 Ode to the polystyrene container
Sparse and unassuming, the five works that comprise Paul Edmunds' exhibition at João Ferreira Fine Art leave Tracy Murinik astonished by their skill and discipline

21.11.01 Fuelling creativity
Hazel Friedman admires an impressive collection of works by younger and more established bravehearts of the contemporary visual art scene at the Sasol Museum in Stellenbosch

21.11.01 Friction between cultures
'Chafe', an intervention by Mark Wilby at the South African Museum, engages with the politics of presentation through a focus on the 'karretjie people' of the Karoo. Paul Edmunds reviews

31.10.01 Cabinets in need of deconstruction
Lyndi Sales' curiosity cabinets are wonderfully exotic, but the journeys of discovery that they represent were not always so marvellous, argues Tracy Murinik

21.11.01 Sculptures stand out among Bester standards
Three potent installations at the heart of 'Dogs of War' distil a power that has been detectable but not always fully realised in Willie Bester's work, writes Brenda Atkinson

07.11.01 Shape-shifter
Minnette Vári's flawless video works maximise the tense play between appearance and reality, history and our collective obsession with what is ahead, writes Brenda Atkinson

07.11.01 Between art and a hard place
Canadian artist Mara Verna completed her Bag Factory residency with an exhibition documenting her performances around the Johannesburg city block. Kathryn Smith's verdict: brilliant

31.10.01 Good, clean and fresh
Curated by Retha Erasmus, 'Clean' challenged artists to work within the formalist constraints of 'de-saturation', with some inspired results. Brenda Atkinson reviews

28.11.01 Coats, coverings and criticism
Frances van Melsen, Technikon Natal Gallery curator, responds to Virginia MacKenny's review of Fiona Kirkwood's 'Coats and Coverings' at the NSA

21.11.01 The power of play
While Fiona Kirkwood gets bogged down in weighty socio-political rhetoric, Joanne Bloch's plastic trivia become subversively powerful. Virginia MacKenny reviews three shows at the NSA

28.11.01 The art of branding
'Shelf Life', an investigation into the mediated landscape, provides a less than comfortable curatorial context for works by Robin Rhode and Bitterkomix. Sean O'Toole reviews

14.11.01 'Still' space near the World Trade Center
Berni Searle's first solo show in New York was scheduled to open on the day of the World Trade Center attack. Laurie Farrell writes that, in the aftermath, visitors found her work 'healing, meditative and restorative

17.07.01 Mainstream America meets Kentridge
Everyone in the US art scene should know who William Kentridge is thanks to a major retrospective tour of metropolitan museums. Laurie Ann Farrell views the show in Washington and New York

14.11.01 Going public
The catalogue for last year's 'Returning the Gaze' public art project at the Cape Town One City Festival has finally made it into print. Sophie Perryer reviews