Sello Letswalo, now based in Johannesburg continues to explore steel sheet as an alternative to canvas. This correspondence occurred in the context of sequel to ‘O; Foreman, his solo exhibition that took place at Trent Art Gallery last year.
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Group exhibitions parade artists of varying levels of development and excellence under the same umbrella, in turn they blur the lines between established artists and those who are in their early stages of development. This is unavoidable if we are committed to continue to tell the human story through the visual arts. … Read More Intraparadox, Interview with Bridget Modema. May Day Group Exhibition, Ellis House JHB. 15 June 2022
In this edition of Intraparadox, I catch-up with the artist Maria Masha. Based in Mamelodi, Masha established WhoArt, a developmental organization which runs a project that focus on the teaching of the visual arts to youth. Our conversation touches on the moment when she starts to focus on her own art practice. She submitting work to the Gauteng Popup Gallery Exhibition held at Newtown Junction Mall in 2021. Amongst other vistas that our conversation splinters into, we talk about art patronage and her family, the support system she established in Mamelodi as an artist through WhoArt when she ran her developmental project and her subsequent acceptance to The Arts Accelerator Programme run by The South African Creative Industries Incubator. … Read More Intraparadox: An Interview with Maria Masha, Cyclic Harmonics
Patrick Rulore’s solo exhibition, Stage 4 Moments further explores a conversation that he initiated in 2019 when he won SASOL New Signatures Art Competition with a work that articulated the effects of load shedding in our society. … Read More Intraparadox: An Interview with Patrick Rulore, Moments in Stages
In this interception, I have a conversation with the artist herself following her winning of SASOL New Signatures Art Competition 2021. Our conversation traces her earlier attempts at entering the art competition, the development of her art practice and the evolution of the ideas and techniques that made Paloceae Lupantoza come into being.… Read More Intraparadox, An Interview with Andrea du Plessis, Interplay Origins
In this interception, I have a conversation with Sello Letswalo following his recent pop-up exhibition, O’ Foreman, at Trent Gallery, in Tshwane. The artist asserts that in that exhibition, he was preoccupied with Totems as forms of identity, their connection to our lineage and, to a certain extent, our customs.… Read More Intraparadox, An Interview with Sello Letswalo, O’ Foreman
The exhibition Interfacing New Heavens, which comprises of work by Vanessa Lorenzo and Tebogo George Mahashe, pierces the frontiers of contemporary art by fusing visual art with science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. … Read More Intraparadox: Interviews with Danielle Oosthuizen, Tebogo George Mahashe & Sinathemba Twalo, Interfacing New Heavens
Bridget Modema, a sculptor based in Tshwane, fuses glass and steel to interpret the unseen, the intangible world that permeates our immediate world. … Read More Intraparadox: An Interview with Bridget Modema, A Vehicle of Frequencies & Vibrations
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