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Maja Maljević – Revisited – May 6 – 27, 2012

Maja Maljević – Revisited – May 6 – 27, 2012 – NIROXprojects, Arts on Main. Text by Jacqueline Nurse In 1863, Édouard Manet painted Olympia and, in so doing, instigated the reinvention of painting. Suddenly, painting was liberated from what in the twentieth century has been referred to as the “tyranny of appearance” and the [...]

O/O – Julian Opie and Chris Ofili at David Krut Projects

David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, will be showing selected prints by Julian Opie and Chris Ofili in an exhibition entitled O/O which will run from 5 April to May 2012. “More than any British artist of his generation Julian Opie has taken art beyond the gallery environment and into the mainstream of cultural life.” – Mary [...]

William Kentridge (from Tate Modern Artist Series)

It’s not a mistake to see a shape in the cloud. That’s what it is to be alive with your eyes open; to be constantly, promiscuously, putting things together. – William Kentridge. William Kentridge is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. His work spans many genres – film, printmaking, books, tapestry, sculpture, and opera [...]

Diane Victor – Burning the Candle at Both Ends

Burning the Candle at Both Ends (cover LR)

This book has been published to co-incide with the exhibition of Diane Victor’s work at the University of Johannesburg, Ashes to Ashes and Smoke to Dust, which ran from mid-November 2011 to the end of January 2012. This is second publication on Victor’s work from David Krut Publishing. The main body of text was written [...]

Upcoming Linocuts by William Kentridge in 2012

David Krut Print Workshop at Arts on Main has launched into 2012 full speed ahead with printing and editioning the latest series of linocuts by William Kentridge. Many of the prints will become part of an upcoming exhibition in Australia this year. With almost 60 linocut prints to create, the DKW team and Kentridge’s assistants [...]

Visual Century: South African Art in Context 1907 – 2007

Visual Century is encyclopaedic in scope. — Janet Stanley, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of African Art … (A) valuable contribution to literature on South African art. —Brenda Schmahmann, Fine Art Department, Rhodes University Given the need to construct a national archive, this work is a stellar example of what local productions (researching, writing, publishing) [...]

Prints Created by Jürgen Partenheimer at DKW

Jürgen Partenheimer, a major German artist with a distinguished international career stayed as a resident at NIROX Foundation from 15 September until 15 November 2011 supported by the Goethe-Institute Johannesburg. Since his arrival at NIROX, the artist has met and engaged with local artists and arts personalities to develop a fascinating programme. Some of his activities [...]

Christopher Cozier: After All That Talk (2011)

The Substation Residency, Dislocating the Studio, is a series of residencies featuring local and international cultural practitioners, structured as a challenge to the space of the studio/gallery[1]. The Substation is located at the Wits School of Arts on East Campus. In October this year, artists Christopher Cozier and Luis Jacobs were invited into the studio space to work on [...]

William Kentridge and Peter L. Galison – The Refusal of Time

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 009 In this notebook, artist William Kentridge and science historian and filmmaker Peter L. Galison preview their Documenta 13 collaboration on the subject of non-standardized temporality, realized in drawing, text, music and film.

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