Contemporary Art in South Africa
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[A] common thread that connects Thabo Treasure Mofokeng’s works, this year’s Runner-up winner for the SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition, as far as this art competition is concerned as a contemporary showcase of the visual arts, is that his work is the recognition of our inner selves as something akin to profoundness beyond limitations.
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[The] winning work for this year’s SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition, Cycles of the Mind, collapses one of the most fundamental rules of art exhibited in a museum setting, the do not touch rule.
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[The] genesis of Augury after Autogogues, Miné Kleynhans’s solo exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum started right after the end SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition 2024 opening ceremony when she was on flight to Bloemfontein. In this podcast, recorded on the morning of 03 September a few hours before this year’s overall winner, runner-up…
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This afternoon, five merit award winners, a runner-up up as well as the overall winner for this year’s edition of SASOL New Signatures Visual Art Competition have been announced through an opening ceremony presided over by Ms. Nozipho Mbatha, Group Brand Sponsorship Senior Manager for SASOL. Tammy Lee Baikie (Johannesburg), Rebecca Louise (Beck) Glass (Tshwane),…
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Archive: [S]ASOL New signatures Visual Arts Competition announcement 2025.
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In this podcast, I speak to the curators Janine Allen and Jan van Der Merwe ahead of the opening of their recently curated group exhibition titled Visual Languages at the Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Art), Tshwane.
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Unlike the previous project, ‘Traces in the Still Air’ (2024) by Lerato Motaung, wherein the he utilised tires and broken glasses as a homage to his childhoold memories and to his grandmother in particular, in ‘Whispers of What Was’ (2025) he opted to deploy granite stones and wooden sleighd to drive a meditation once more…
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On 15 November, Michael Selekane will unveil a new body of work at The White River Gallery.
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