Arlene has gained international acclaim for her extraordinary talent as an artist, and for her acute awareness of social rights and wrongs. This body of work will honour past expectations.

“This body of work makes direct reference to the people who try to establish roots and create homes in the places I inhabit and pass through everyday. For many this process is only made possible by the tenacity of their longing, the human longing, for a home. The environment itself is often hostile and unwelcoming, even for those who can afford homes. In these spaces, the ugly becomes beautiful, the native becomes a visitor in an alien land, the migrant becomes native, the uninhabitable is inhabited.” – Arlene Amaler-Raviv

Dates: 13 February – 27 February 2010

Worldart Gallery
54 Church Street
Cape Town

Tel: 021 423 3075
Web: www.worldart.co.za

Hours: Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am -1pm. Closed on Sundays

Everard Read are proud to present new works by Peter Kuhfeld.

Peter Kuhfeld was first shown at Everard Read as far back as in 1995, however it was not until ten years later that he officially joined our stable of artists.

Having studied painting at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools under Peter Greenham (CBE, RA), held exhibitions at the Royal Academy, won the Royal Academy of Art Silver Medal and joined the Royal Society of Portrait Painters we are delighted, finally in 2009, to hold our first one man show with him.

Kuhfelds paintings cover a wide range of subjects. He is most well known for his nudes, but this exhibition displays a wide range of subjects most notably those of the great Roman ruins such as the Forum and Hadrian’s Villa. It is Kuhfeld’s technical use of soft light and colour that arrests and captivates us. As his great friend John Ward, who died in 2007, said; Kuhfeld’s work was perhaps summed up in “…the musical term ‘perfect pitch’…He is able to make colours sing and spread air between and beyond his figures.”

The exhibition opens on Thursday 23rd April at 6.00pm and will be up until 17th May.

The Everard Read Gallery
6 Jellicoe Avenue
Rosebank
Johannesburg

www.everard-read.co.za
Tel +27 (0)11 788-4805
Fax +27 (0)11 788-5914

The Joburg Art Fair is an annual art fair, presented by FNB and launched earlier this year by Artlogic, the company that brought William Kentridge’s The Magic Flute to local audiences. From 12 to 16 March 2008, 22 major galleries took up 5 000 square metres of the Sandton Convention Centre boasting the largest collection of African and South African contemporary art the world had ever seen beneath one roof. It was the first Joburg Art Fair – not only a first for the city, but for the African continent – and it proved to be a resounding success. Johannesburg joined the ranks of cities like London, Miami, Shanghai, Toronto, Glasgow, Dubai, Chicago and Melbourne, all of which boast box-office-busting annual art fairs of their own.

The second Joburg Art Fair, scheduled for 3-5 April 2009, promises to be an even more eclectic and immersive experience, drawing a huge array of creative individuals from across the country and the continent. In addition to five new galleries, the event will boast a strong design interface, with a host of special projects creating a diverse visitor experience in the central hub of the convention centre.

The success of an art fair is all about sustainability and building a brand over time. Too many South African art initiatives – not least the Johannesburg Biennale – have not made it beyond the teething phase. With FNB’s commitment, the Joburg Art Fair is able to find its niche amongst the more than 250 art fairs around the world.

Internationally, art fairs are about the business of art, combining art and lifestyle and appealing to an audience that might ordinarily shy away from the white cube gallery space. Most art fairs have a broad reach encompassing cultural areas beyond fine art and including film festivals, design and architectural sections, as well as the traditional modes of visual expression such as painting, photography and sculpture. With this in mind, Artlogic has taken a groundbreaking hybrid approach to the 2009 Joburg Art Fair, embracing the best of contemporary visual culture the continent has to offer.

In addition to the 25 leading galleries that have signed up to participate, the gordonschachatcollection is pleased to announce that they will be presenting Security, a unique installation by internationally acclaimed South African artist Jane Alexander, originally commissioned for the 27th São Paulo Biennale. Tumelo Mosaka, from the Brooklyn Museum has been contracted to curate a selection of moving image work from countries in the Global South. For this space the art fair has partnered with Gauteng Provincial Government and Bang & Olufsen.

CULTURESFRANCE, in collaboration with Gallery MOMO and the French Institute of South Africa, will be presenting a selection of African photography, entitled Encounters of Bamako.

In a joint initiative with Artlogic, next year’s event will also boast a stand featuring a selection of the best of contemporary South African interior design specially-curated by Trevyn McGowan of Source. McGowan is a local sourcing agent for the international retail market, including the Conran Shop in the UK and Anthropologie and Terrain in the US.

Book lovers will welcome the news of a designer book lounge, with the best art and visual culture publications on offer by Exclusive Books, Boekehuis, Biblioteq and Clarke’s. Using materials sponsored by PG Bison (the country’s largest producer of board and laminate products) Alexander Opper and Amir Livneh of the young Johannesburg-based firm, Notion Architects, have conceived of a city-inspired design for the book lounge that has at its core ‘the celebration of the book as an object of beauty’.

Artlogic has devised a Talks programme where artists from each participating gallery will talk to audiences about their vision and practice. The Talks programme will be housed in a massive glass box made of coloured Belgian glass and other hi-tech glass products, specially designed by PG Glass. The Talks will be open to ticket holders, at no additional cost. Two international key-note speakers will be supported by the Goethe Institut and WISER.

‘We didn’t want to increase the size of the Fair by simply adding more commercial galleries,’ says Artlogic director Ross Douglas. ‘Instead we approached art bodies like the Goethe and French institutes that would normally back biennales and offered them free space to fund an activity that would maximize the visitor experience. We extended the concept to include the best of design, video art and new projects in the art space. The aim for 2009 is to keep visitors in the space for as long as possible and expose them to the top creativity from the continent.’

“We are proud to sponsor the 2nd Annual Joburg Art Fair, in response to a growing
interest and investment in the arts by individuals and corporate South Africa,” says FNB
CEO, Michael Jordaan. “FNB is a keen supporter and collector of local art work. This is our
way of helping to nurture, encourage, and to ensure that South African and African
artists are celebrated nationally and internationally.”
In addition to a diverse range of special projects, Joburg Art Fair 2009 will boast an on- site Vida e Caffe and a slinky lounge bar in the heart of all the networking and social action. So, once you’ve got your entry ticket, there’ll be no need to desert the main event in search of refreshment or some time out. Check out an exhibition, meet a friend over coffee to discuss the works you’ve got your eye on, then take in a discussion by leading artists as part of the new on-site talks programme… The Joburg Art Fair is set to be the hippest cultural event to hit South Africa’s most intensely creative African metropolis in 2009.

ArtVault will also be at the fair again this year so make sure you pop past and say hi!

Everard Read Johannesburg takes pleasure in inviting you to ‘The Great South African Nude’ group show.

The Exhibition will run from 19 March through to 19 April 2009.

To arrange a preview, kindly contact the gallery or visit our website www.everard–read.co.za

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 9am-6pm Saturdays 9am-1pm

6 Jellicoe Avenue
Rosebank, Johannesburg
2196
South Africa

Tel: +27 11 788-4805
Fax: +27 11 788-5914
Email: gallery@everard.co.za

Brodie/Stevenson presents Self/Not-Self, a two-part curated exhibition that explores modes of self-representation across a range of contemporary art practices.

Bearing in mind critical debates about the symbolic violence that often accompanies attempts to speak on behalf of others, this exhibition asks questions around what it means to ‘speak for oneself’ in our times.

The exhibition considers concepts of self-portraiture and the role of the artist/author. While it is undoubtedly reductive to interpret all work as autobiographical, the significance of how artists ‘write themselves into’ their work is fundamental to contemporary art practice. This ‘writing in’ may occur in various ways including performance, the gestural mark, the trace, the alter-ego, autobiography (both real and fictitious), confession and absence. The two parts of this exhibition focus on two central modes.

The first exhibition (19 February – 21 March) explores direct means of self-representation, looking at diverse works that utilise an embodied version of ‘writing in’. Aspects of this approach include the present body, corporeal traces and other markers of presence, and the self as subject, artist or protagonist. While embodied self-representation possesses an immediacy that speaks of individual agency, such declarations are also haunted by the potential that these bodies may be (symbolically) ‘owned’ by their viewers. Embodied representation is at once empowering and threatening.

Artists on the first show include Serge Alain, Pieter Hugo, Lunga Kama, Anton Kannemeyer, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi, Tracy Payne, Richard Penn, Berni Searle, Lerato Shadi and Penny Siopis.

The second exhibition (26 March – 25 April) looks at indirect or ‘absent’ self-representational approaches, where strategies of surrogacy, projection and alternative personae are employed. Aspects of this approach include the object as stand-in for the self, self as alter-ego, self as artwork, as another’s body, and as text. These approaches contain an inherent sense of remove, and allow for a mode of autobiography through a third-person or object. In their ‘looking outwards’ to the world, these artists offer a challenge to the very idea of a coherent or contained self.

Artists on the second show include Avant Car Guard, Conrad Botes, Wim Botha, Reshma Chhiba, Paul Edmunds, Simon Gush, Nicholas Hlobo, Lawrence Lemaoana, Michael MacGarry, Athi-Patra Ruga, Wilhelm Saayman and Sober and Lonely.

Together, this pair of exhibitions offers an extended exploration of the productive tension that exists between various modes of self-representation, and the implications of such practice within larger debates around representation.

The exhibition will run until 21 March 2009

Brodie/Stevenson
ground floor, 373 Jan Smuts Avenue
Craighall
Johannesburg

info@brodiestevenson.com
Telephone +27 (0)11 326 0034
Fax +27 (0)11 326 0041.

Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am to 5.30pm, and Saturday from 9.30am to 3pm.

Ashbey’s are pleased to announce their first catalogue auction of the year which will be held on 19th February at 10:00.

To browse through the South African artworks presented for auction click here

For more information, contact Inge Beck or Paul Myson on:
Tel: +27 (0)21 423 8060
Fax: +27(0)21 423-3047
Email: info@ashbeys.co.za
www.ashbeysgalleries.co.za

Art lovers will have an excellent reason to attend the Grahamstown National Arts Festival this year. Artists exhibiting at the 2008 National Arts Festival include Obie Oberholzer, Andrew Vester and the Standard Bank Young Artist award winner  Nontsikelelo ‘Lolo’ Veleko.

Visitors to the festival will be able to tour the exhibitions through a series of walkabout tours, during which visitors can discuss the work with each other and an arts expert.

Wonderland, a dazzling, high-energy collection of photographs by Nontsikelelo ‘Lolo’ Veleko, captures the essence of Jozi street style. The 2008 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winner uses her camera like a novelist uses words to lure us into a “through-the-looking-glass” world where young urbanites use fashion savvy to create fictions of their own identity.

Obie Oberholzer’s photographic exhibition, The Hotazel Years, takes viewers beyond the mainstream into the quirky backwoods of South Africa.

Contemporary dance is the focus of a large faculty of photographers working in Germany. A selection of their work makes an awesome exhibition titled Frozen in Time, presented courtesy of the Goethe Institute.

Family snapshots and old letters were the starting point for Maureen de Jager, whose exhibition - In Sepia - uses images and texts engraved in rusting steel to reflect on the mutability of memory. There are also white sculptures, gradually stained by rust growing on the steel embedded in them.

Texts merged with visual messages are the unifying discourse for Lefoko, Igama, Dibu, Word – a collection of work by four artists practising in Botswana. Each has drawn from his or her own semantic background – Setswana, Xhosa and North American poetry are among the words that are entwined in the work.

Time is the starting point for curators of two other exhibitions on the programme: Decade and Andrew Verster Past/Present. Decade features highlights of ten years of acquisitions for the Sanlam Art Collection – since 1997 some 544 works have been added to this representative archive of South African Art. To mark Sanlam’s 90th anniversary, 83 works ranging in time from 1896 have been selected for the Festival show. The Andrew Verster exhibition (curated by Carol Brown and the artist) charts the creativity and playfulness of a master. Works include paintings, drawings, costumes and his latest wax works on tissue.

Curation plays a key role in Art from the Ground Up, a body of work by Eastern Cape Artists, originally selected for an invitational show in Germany. The contrasts in response to the geographic, spiritual, philosophical and social dimensions of the Eastern Cape are fascinating. Art craft by other Eastern Cape talents are on display and for sale in a special marquee at the Village Green, and this year there are a number of demonstrations as well.

Another chance to track process is presented by Production Marks, curated by Brenton Maart. Celebrating line drawing as a starting point for most design, the exhibition considers tools and the marks they make – from the humble pencil to the high-end computer. Sketches and plans are exhibited with models and photographs of final products – sculpture, furniture and other functional artefacts.

In addition to the main programme exhibitions, there is a plethora of visual art shows on the Fringe ensuring that the National Arts Festival is a feast for the eye.

Don’t miss the exhibitions on the 2008 Festival programme – pick up a booking kit from Computicket or selected Standard Bank branches and come on down to Grahamstown for a fun-filled Festival experience. Visit www.nationalartsfestival.co.za or call 046 603 1103 for more info.

Rudd’s hosts its Catalogue Auction Sale of Fine Antique Furniture, South African and European Art,Decorative Art & Collectables on Tuesday 13th May at 5pm at 87 Bree Street, Cape Town

Viewing commences on Friday 9th May. The illustrated Catalogue may be viewed on www.rudds.co.za from the 1st May. Details available from Rudd’s 021 426 0384

SA Artists include: Gavin J G F Younge, Gail D Catlin, Marie Vermeulen Breedt, Errol E Boyley, Christopher Tugwell, Titta Fasciotti, Hennie Griesel, Henry J Dykman, Carl A Buchner, Roth Theys, Christo Coetzee, Frans M Claerhout, Kenneth Bakker, Walter W Battiss, Sydney Taylor, Kobus Louw, Jacob J Pierneef, Gabriel de Jongh, Barbara E H Tyrell, Molly M Hathorn, Dorothy E S Humphris( Dorelle), Robert Broadley, Tyronne E Appollis, Norman C Catherine, Eric Wale, Waalko Dingemans, Nils S Severin, Andrew C Verster, and Otto Klar.

The Art Place presents Unframed Gems, an exhibition of works ready to be framed to suit your own taste - a great option if you are redecorating. Until April 12 at the Art Place, 144 Milner Ave, Roosevelt Park. For details call 011 888 9120.

The first-ever art fair devoted exclusively to art from Africa will be held 13 to 16 March 2008, at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.

On sale will be the largest collection of African and South African contemporary art ever, covering 5 000 square metres of gallery space.

“The Joburg Art Fair will establish South Africa as an essential stopover on the global contemporary art buying calendar,” says Ross Douglas, director of Artlogic, the company behind the fair.

There are 22 galleries in the fair, from New York, London, Germany, the UK and Africa. Contemporary African art showcased at the Joburg Art Fair will range from R1 000 to R5-million.

The Joburg Art Fair will include a specially curated show entitled ‘As you like it’ by Simon Njami, chief curator of the highly successful Africa Remix exhibition, as well as the Africa pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. Njami will be choosing works by artists from across Africa who will not be represented by galleries at the fair, and all these will be on sale. Douglas says Njami’s participation is a stamp of approval on the continent’s first art fair and will set the tone for what will be an annual event.

International contemporary art galleries confirmed for the 2008 Joburg Art Fair include the Perry Rubenstein Gallery and the Jack Shainman Gallery from New York, Galerie Peter Hermann from Berlin, Galerie Ames d’Afrique from Strasbourg, The Townhouse Gallery and L’Appartement 22, Rabat from Morocco and the October Gallery from London. The galleries have been specially invited to participate so buyers can expect an unparalleled selection to choose from. Galleries will have works on sale from many of the big names, including Zwelethu Mthethwa, William Kentridge, Guy Tillim, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo and Moshekwa Langa.

Artlogic was also responsible for bringing William Kentridge’s critically acclaimed Magic Flute production to South Africa.

Find more information, including participating artists and galleries, at www.joburgartfair.co.za