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CONTEMPORARY ART IN SOUTH AFRICA

No 12. August 1998
1st Anniversary Edition

Steven Cohen, winner of the 1998 Vita Art Award,
seen here by Bic-light on the night of the opening

William Kentridge's three-screen
projection Ulisse Echo on the Vitas

New work from Alan Alborough
at the Gertrude Posel

A frame from Suburban Mishaps
See The Processed Image

Randolph Hartzenberg
Stone and Time 1998
Local stone, chicken wire, glass, wood
Site-specific installation
on Xoe! art project, Nieu Bethesda
See Artbio

JOHANNESBURG
Vita Award Show at the Sandton Civic Gallery
Jeremy Wafer and Sue Williamson at the Goodman Gallery
Deborah Bell at the Goodman Gallery
'Do Not Touch' at the Johannesburg Civic
'Holdings: Refiguring the Archive' at the Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
Six alumni at the Gertrude Posel

DURBAN
Joseph Manana and others at the NSA

CAPE TOWN
Harold Chapman photographs at the Joao Ferreira
Johnny Golightly at the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet
'Bringing Up Baby' at the Cape Town Castle
Lucy Pooler and Clare Menck at the AVA
Public sculpture competition maquettes at Rust en Vreugd
Marthinus le Grange retrospective at the Irma Stern
Women artists at Idasa and Bang

ArtThrob: The First Year
Winner of the Hugo Boss Award announced in New York
'The Processed Image' - Robert Weinek writes on Video Art in South Africa
'District Six Sculpture Festival' - Paul Edmunds reviews the catalogue
Orlan comes to Wits
Peet 'n' Barend again

Randolph Hartzenberg

Malcolm Payne

Call for work for Wits conference
Johannesburg Art Foundation seeks new head

Unless otherwise noted, all editorial comment in this column is by the editor, Sue Williamson.
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