Intraparadox

Category: Art in South Africa

  • Poorvi Bana’s search for Serenity

    Viewing this art exhibition with the awareness of the artist’s earlier work the viewer will realise a remarkable move towards suspended installation. Punctuating this recent development is the fact that the five works comprising this exhibition are traditionally viewed on pedestals with a top down view. Whereas the ‘108’ installation is at eye level. →

  • For Sale Project Exhibition 2012

    However if I may be allowed the privilege to give a general commentary on creativity itself I would like to offer that the artist, the creative person whatever the vocation of creativity that they are grappling with, for them concentration is everything. For in their pursuit to reach the original artwork the artist must work… →

  • Intraparadox, Interview with Rudolph Tshie

    Milestone Mmutle Arthur Kgokong: Good day Rudolph I will like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to interview you Rudolph Tshie: Good day Mr Mmutle Mmutle: I will like to thank you for allowing me to have the opportunity to have an interview with you with regard to you as an artist. I… →

  • Neo Resistance Art and its Fallacy (final edit!)

    Now as I jot this article that artwork has evolved from being an aggravating work praised as brave and avant-garde to a vandalized artwork following two men who entered the gallery, apparently total strangers to each other, and took turns defacing the painting. While the white man crossed both the face and the genitalia with… →

  • Fall of the Tomb

    To whom does South Africa belong? to whom does Pretoria belong to? Fall of the Tomb reaffirms that it is only through a discursive contest of grounds that our flawed past can be grappled with mercilessly, looking at things as they were and are right now rather than wishing for a utopian version of our… →

  • 5 Minutes with an Artist: Tshepo Mosopa

    Tshepo Mosopa is a contemporary artist based in Tshwane-Pretoria whose work has been shown in exhibitions such as The New Signatures Art Competition 2007, The Rehearsal Exhibition 2008 and For Sale Project Exhibition 2008. He is currently part of the final selection exhibition for the ABSA L’Atelier Art Award 2009. Mosopa is a member of… →