Intraparadox

Tag: Contemporary Art in South Africa

  • Mohlokomedi wa Tora

    Mohlokomedi wa Tora »Lebohang Kganye, SASOL New Signatures 2017 overall winner’s exhibition is up at the Pretoria Art Museum. Her 2017 winning work was groundbreaking in terms of the animation approach she used to make the video installation in telling her family’s journey to Johannesburg. The pop-up book animation effect was pervasive in twofold. While… →

  • Intraparadox: An interview with Banele Khoza

    Temporary Feelings 23 March 2016 [Mmutle Arthur Kgokong: Good morning Banele Khoza]/[Banele Khoza: Hello Mmutle, how are you?]/[Mmutle AK: I am very well thank you, uhm welcome to Intraparadox, ehh I am glad you were able make time and see me ahead of your exhibition at the art museum which has something to do with… →

  • Intraparadox: An interview with Ilandi Barkhuizen

    I spoke to Ilandi Barkhuizen on the morning of 14 May ahead of a group exhibition that will feature her work at the St. Lorient Fashion and Art Gallery on 15 May 2016 until 4 June 2016. →

  • The Quadrille of Torture, Pain, Steel and Paint

    To the observant and informed viewer armed with knowledge of what Ilandi Barkhuizen has set out to do presently will be in a fortunate position to witness the erection of a conversation between steel and paint in an attempt to animate these two materials towards mimicry. →

  • Dye My Memories

    I spoke to Thato Seboko on Tuesday 12 April ahead of his solo exhibition opening at the Mellow House Factory in Tshwane, Hatfield. The artist was excited about his upcoming exhibition which will feature a new body of work comprising of 16 artworks. Presently he is working with a new media – hair dye, which… →

  • For Sale Project Exhibition 2012

    However if I may be allowed the privilege to give a general commentary on creativity itself I would like to offer that the artist, the creative person whatever the vocation of creativity that they are grappling with, for them concentration is everything. For in their pursuit to reach the original artwork the artist must work… →

  • Reorientation of Visual Arts Education in RSA

    The Arts role in any Nation is crucial, the arts remind us of who we are: Through writing, performance and the Visual Arts. Without the Arts societies will lead an existence banal of the aesthetic. The arts alongside scientific discoveries narrated by historical accounts explain who we are from a creativity perspective. We would be… →

  • 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… →