On the walls there are preparatory drawings of these sculptures on show. Outside above a flowing river that feeds the ponds and lakes of Nirox a robust metropolis nest sculpture made out of stainless steel is suspended. And still outside there are several sculptures, about three meters high, across the green pathway that leads to the Studio Gallery.… Read More A gentle invasion of Auke De Vries
Art functions simultaneously at two levels, on the one hand it is a commodity and on the other it is a reflection of the artist’s meditation on life: The lived experience that the artist has personalized as stills of moments either in symbolic form or as direct commentary of what the artist feels ought to… Read More Joe de Beer's Departure Art Exhibition
I Any reader familiar with Franz Kafka’s Metamorphoses would agree without doubt that that work concerns itself with alienation of the self. We see the protagonist being isolated from his family due to the odd working hours he is subjected to, he is part of the proletariat machine. Furthermore his transformation into a beetle one… Read More A Report to the Academy
An exhibition’s core aim, never mind the content of the artworks, is to bring a body of work, executed by different or the same artist, into one space and create a dialogue between the artworks – this is also subordinate to the content of the work forming the exhibition; meaning the vision of what the overall feel of the exhibition should be is a huddle that must be negotiated by the artworks to be entered into the competition.… Read More Visual Art Infrastructure
By hiding behind the name ‘Staff Writer’, which in a sense, delimits debate and is imbibed with the grey area effect – for we do not know who writes, is suspicious of disrespect for the subject matter. As far as the article in question id concerned the discerning reader must just read between the lines to pick up the underlying message; that the development of black artists in this country has as its highest rung luxury and disengagement with the immediate community erected and fixed.
Idioms and proverbs have been in existence amongst our people before the introduction of the writing system as a form of teaching, guidance and knowledge transference. I use Idioms as a basis of my themes and make connection with the modern period that our people find themselves in. – Tshepo Mosopa MENO MASWEU I My… Read More Interpreting Tshepo Mosopa – Artist/Poet collaboration
The artist has hinted on one fact concerning the use of public transport with regard to the train
‘That the commuters lose their identity once they are inside the train coach especially those traveling third class. They are subjected to pick pocketing and clothes ruffling as if insignificant, meanwhile they are the power tools, the lifeline of the City’
‘That the commuters lose their identity once they inside the train coach especially those traveling third class. They are subjected to pick pocketing and clothes ruffling as if insignificant’
… Read More Tshepo Mosopa’s Seemo Sa Boraro (Third Class)
What one must understand when it comes to a super hero like Super Man is that he is a super hero by birth! He is an alien, from krypton, he has traveled galaxies to get to our world and his existence is linked with the protection of humanity. His being an Alien outstrips him of… Read More X- Men Origins: Wolverine
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