Intraparadox

Category: Interview

  • Shifting the boundary: Interview with Nthabiseng Rachel Montshiwa

    I think South African contemporary Art should always mark the social politics there should not be a compromise by the author on what kind of subject matter you focus on and also your technicality must not be compromised because you are looking into new media you should always base your media or medium into what… →

  • Hosea Matlou: Towards Simplicity

    Arriving in Gauteng – Tshwane in the new century Matlou hailed from Polokwane in Ga-Sekgopo district. His plans initially were to study Finance and accounting at Tshwane University of Technology (then Pretoria Technical College). With minimum training in the visual art received from sessions attended at a community based art project Matlou left the institution… →

  • A gentle invasion of Auke De Vries

    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… →

  • Joe de Beer's Departure Art Exhibition

    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… →

  • Interpreting Tshepo Mosopa – Artist/Poet collaboration

    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… →

  • Tshepo Mosopa’s Seemo Sa Boraro (Third Class)

    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… →

  • 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… →

  • Mbongeni R. Buthelezi – Blowing life into plastic

    There I was on that Sunday beholding his rather stocky frame perusing Leornado’s anatomical facsimiles in Preiss Hal – one of the Art Museum’s gallery. It was five to six hours later after watching the pre-recorded interview of his. I chanced a greeting and I was delighted when he gave me a friendly reply punctuated… →