Intraparadox

Category: Opinion

  • 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 View of Four Dada Portraits

    According to Tristan Tzara ‘In art, Dada reduces everything to an initial simplicity, growing always more relative. It mingles its caprices with the chaotic wind of creation and barbaric dances of savage tribes (Chipp 1968: 386). This is indeed true of figure 1. The composition is simple and it looks like anyone who is not… →

  • A Planet of the Six Legged Horses

    There is a safety valve in place to cushion Avatar from becoming another cliché film dealing with apartheid ideology on a global level. This element is that the planet is inhabitable to human beings – without the use of oxygen masks they cannot survive in Pandora; henceforth the use of Avatars. Avatar reminds us that… →

  • Surrogates

    Cyberspace, the nervous system of machines? In 1999 when the dust had settled after the Matrix (1999) had made its mark, it had set the tone for follow-up science fiction films; it had raised the bar through its rich and intricate narrative as well as through the special effects it incorporated. Today we have inherited films such as Equilibrium… →

  • A Rainbow in Crisis

    Akin to the collapse of the Berlin Wall at the dawn of the 90’s so had the wall that separated South Africans from the inevitable commingling with each other removed. Black and white people were now viewing each other from a close quarters perspective – as equal. And the nation gave birth to the new… →

  • 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… →

  • Visual Art Infrastructure

    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… →

  • Responsibility in Representation: Buthelezi

    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… →