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Robert Hodgins
If you've got it, flash it, 1999
Oil on canvas
122 x 91 cm
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The Handspring Puppets
visit the SANG
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Mark Hipper's Inquisitors
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William Kentridge
From Shadow Procession, 1999
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Berni Searle
Snow White, 2001
Two projector video installation, 9'
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Transformation has been a puzzling buzzword throughout much of the post-independence era. Puzzling because the implications of a word variously meaning change, metamorphosis, renewal - even revolution - are yet to be fully understood. Rochelle Keene, director of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, offers her insights into change and transformation at the country's pre-eminent public gallery, while Mgcineni Sobopha's review of Zwelethu Mthethwa's work asks some very pertinent questions on the subject.
Looking to the landscape of the future, we also find out how a young architect seeks to commemorate the past. We also revisit Berni Searle's impressive biography.
Next Update: 3 February 2003
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Mark Hipper is at Joáo Ferreira, his work 'The Inquisitors' comprising beautifully finished, carved wooden elements emerging organically from the gallery's walls. Louis Jansen van Vuuren presents his annual exhibition at the AVA, and Art.b is hosting an exhibition of work by emerging artists.
GAUTENG
Celebrated photographer Raymond Preston shows Long Live, a retrospective of political photography from 1978-1994, while Air on the Skin is the title of the new solo show by artist/printmaker Paul Emmanuel. Also in Johannesburg, comic book artists from South Africa match wits with their counterparts from Reunion. Jane Alexander's mesmerising sculptural adventures move from Pretoria to Bloemfontein's Oliewenhuis Museum.
KWAZULU-NATAL
Gladys Mgudlandlu was one of the first black women in South Africa to exhibit her work publicly. Her direct painting style is on show at the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg. 'Comics Brew' travels to the NSA.
INTERNATIONAL
The Johannesburg-born photographic duo of Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg are exhibiting alongside Roger Ballen at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in a show that presents some of today's most compelling documentary photography. Across the Atlantic, Nicholas Hales is exhibiting at the 2nd Annual Detroit International Video Festival.
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Paul Edmunds visits the SANG, picking out themes, small details and congruencies which caught his eye during the course of his passage through William Kentridge's much vaunted retrospective. Mgcineni 'Pro' Sobopha goes beyond "conventional lengths and treatments" in his assessment 'Coloured/Colored', Zwelethu Mthethwa's recent exhibition at the AVA. Sue Williamson reviews Robert Hodgins, the monograph of the master painter, and ex-ArtThrob intern Lisa Schmidt reports on the Aids-focussed Africa Apart' in Berlin.
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Kendell Geers has mentioned the name Rochelle Keene quite a lot in recent times. ArtThrob approached the JAG's director, asking her a range of inquisitive questions. Aside from revisiting the year that was, in our special poll of 2002, we also hear of news of a new grant initiated by BHP Billiton. Young Cape Town architect, Makena Makeka also explains why the drab old Heerengracht "offers a prize view of how history is layered."
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Sue Williamson updates her diary with festive season news.
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A critic once observed of Berni Searle's actions and performances that they culminate as a powerfully orchestrated protest of the act of reading skin colour in racist societies. ArtThrob's founding editor Sue Williamson herself has said Searle is "one of the most visible of South African artists, increasingly peripatetic, undertaking art projects and participating in exhibitions across the globe". At the start of 2003, we thought it apposite to revisit the work of this year's Standard Bank Young Artist. (It is a short working month after all; it would be unfair to post a new artist biography for only half a month.)
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"To write, read, and chat in English on the Internet is to implicitly justify a certain history," says Korean artist Young-hae Chang, aka YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. "Certain governments don't ban or burn books anymore, they prevent access to the Web, meaning they justify a different history than the one we do by using English." This month's featured project offers a meditative view on the possibilities of language and sound on the web.
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Who are Africa's Media Art Pioneers? MECAD/ESDI, in conjunction with UNESCO, want to know. What 'objects of desire' are you willing to part with? YDESIRE want them - for exhibition purposes. There are also details about the 2003 Ambassadors' Prize Competition, as well as information about the Africa Human Genome Conference art competition.
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In December 2002, ArtThrob launched Editions for ArtThrob with a limited edition photograph by Zwelethu Mthethwa. The initiative offers readers (and art buyers) an opportunity to obtain an original artwork by this internationally renowned artist. Untitled, 2002 is lambda print measuring 61cm x 45cm, available in an edition of 60, signed with a numbered certificate.
Price: R4000 / $450 / Euro 450
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