Archive: Issue No. 50, October 2001

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REVIEWS

Sam Nhlengethwa

Sam Nhlengethwa
The Healer around Fordsburg
Diptych
2001
Collage and oil on canvas
100 x 170cm

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Roelof Louw

Roelof Louw
'Made for the USA' series
Mixed media

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CAPE

24.10.01 Point of contact
Lize Hugo paints snapshots of life in Sea Point, where the homeless seek refuge and the more privileged come to recreate. Paul Edmunds reviews 'Contact Zone' at the AVA

24.10.01 Stars and stripes
Roelof Louw's American flag works, on show briefly at the Bell-Roberts Art Gallery, are suddenly startlingly relevant in the aftermath of September 11

03.10.01 A whimsical yet austere 'Sideshow'
Well-known sculptor Bruce Arnott brings a light touch to a serious undertaking, and imbues his whimsical figures with a satisfying geometry. Paul Edmunds reviews

26.09.01 A sell-out success
Paul du Toit's unashamedly escapist work is an effective opiate for anxiety in a market that might not always know art, but certainly buys what it likes, writes Hazel Friedman

GAUTENG

24.10.01 Tribute to the urban muse
At a glance Sam Nhlengethwa's new show is colourful, uncomplicated, cheerfully commercial. But Brenda Atkinson disovers there's more than first meets the eye to 'Jozi People'

17.10.01 Farber and Hodgins shine at Aardklop
'All You Can Be' presented Leora Farber in her best light yet, and Robert Hodgins' touring retrospective, 'Fifty Years A Painter', proved an absolute treat. Kathryn Smith took in the highlights of Aardklop's visual arts festival

KWA-ZULU NATAL

12.09.01 Life-affirming work for world conference
Virginia MacKenny surveys eight diverse, socio-politically relevant exhibitions staged in Durban to coincide with the World Conference Against Racism
INTERNATIONAL

17.10.01 World Wide Video overload
Storm van Rensburg leaves the Amsterdam festival saturated with media art and curiously reassured to discover that technical problems aren't unique to the developing world

03.10.01 'Authentic/Ex-centric' in the world press
Response to the major African show at the Venice Biennale continues to appear in international art magazines. We republish some highlights

24.07.01 Welcome to the pearly gates
Emma Bedford enters Harald Szeemann's 'Plateau of Humankind' at the 49th Venice Biennale and wonders what he can have been thinking

17.07.01 Testing Africa's limits
The curators of 'Authentic/Ex-centric' stake a claim for Africa at the Venice Biennale. Nic Dawes is disappointed nonetheless

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

SUE WILLIAMSON'S DIARY

'Encounters with the Contemporary' gives a rich impression of Africa's artistic heritage, while 'The Short Century' in Chicago provides American viewers with an important introduction to contemporary African art

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