No 4. November 1997 CONTEMPORARY ART IN SOUTH AFRICA

 

 

Tracey Rose
Span I, Span II
A performance piece by Tracey Rose on 'Graft' at the South African National Gallery.
Photo: Michael Hall

 

A painting by Ivory Coast artist Outtara on
Alternating Currents

 

Wenda Gu holds up a section of his ethereal hanging made of human hair and sprayed on glue
Photo: Grant Lee Neuenberg

 

Gu's installation United Nations 11th stop South Africa hung in the Electric Workshop
Photo: Sue Williamson

 

Bongi Dhlomo, Director of AICA and Okuwi Enwezor, Artistic Director of the Biennale

Listings

Listings for the Second Johannesburg Biennale can be found in the special Biennale section

CAPE TOWN

'O's + X's' - Kevin Atkinson at the Association for Visual Arts
'Cyst' - works in paint at the Cape Town Castle
'Thirty Minutes' installations by nine artists in the Visitor's Block on Robben Island
'Shopping Trolley Project Launch' at the Mau Mau
Hugo Platt - landscape photographs at the Area
'From Where the Wind Blows' - Jacques Dhont at the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet

JOHANNESBURG

'Own' and 'Life' - Brett Murray and Lisa Brice at the Goodman Gallery
Leora Farber at the Thompson Gallery
Vita Awards show at the Sandton Gallery

DURBAN

'Wing on Hand: Sculpture, Architecture and Dancers' - Lene Tempelhoff at the NSA

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Biennale

JOHANNESBURG

'Alternating Currents' at the Electric Workshop
'Transversions' at the MuseumAfrica
'Important and Exportant' at the Johannesburg Art Gallery
'Hong Kong, Etc.' at the Rembrandt van Rijn

CAPE TOWN

'Graft' at the South African National Gallery
'Life's Little Necessities' at the Cape Town Castle

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Unless otherwise noted, this column is written by the editor, Sue Williamson

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