Entries (RSS) DKW: 2007 Report
13th December 2007 | Other items by Jillian Ross |
Wow! DKW at the end of 2007! 2007 has been an amazing and inspiring year for us working with fantastic people on a number of exciting collaborative ventures. We have collaborated and created works with William Kentridge, Bruce Backhouse, Deborah Bell, Wilma Cruise, Johan Engels, Robert Whitehead, Colbert Mashile, Andrzej Nowicki, Stompie Selibe, Cyril Coetzee, Ellen Papciak-Rose and the fashion duo Strangelove. We acquired a letterpress and hosted woodblock experts Mike Houston and Martin Mazorra from Cannonball Press in New York. They taught us the art of woodblock, the accessibility of the medium and how to turn works on paper into sculpture. The result of the collaboration was a giant cardboard and woodblock sculpture that was installed at the Coca Cola Dome before moving to its permanent home at the Bag Factory Wilma Cruise and DKW have had a wonderfully exciting year, starting with our travels to New York to work with printers at the Lower East Side Printshop and culminating in Wilma’s much-anticipated exhibition Cocks, Asses & at the University of Johannesburg Art Centre in November, where the longest print we have ever printed in the studio was exhibited with Wilma’s sculptures and other prints. We began a wonderful relationship with Johannesburg Artbank and hosted a monotype workshop for artists Lawrence Lemaoana, Mary Sibande, Ellen Papciak- Rose, Karin Preller and Stompie Selibe. Following from the success of this project, a second workshop will start as soon as we are back in 2008. We are also pleased to announce the acquisition of our smallest etching press to date, a Hunter Penrose Little John, 61 cm x 40.5 cm, which will be cleaned and put to use in 2008. And finally, in October, William Kentridge’s much-anticipated opera, The Magic Flute, made its way to South Africa. Having started a series of works with William in 2006 based on the project, DKW was further involved in the production through the creation of a small portfolio of prints for a deluxe edition of David Krut Publishing’s William Kentridge Flute. In anticipation of William’s 2010 production of the Shostakovich opera The Nose for the Metropolitan Opera, we are working with him on a series of prints related to themes of the opera. 2008 will see further collaborations with many of the artists we worked with this year, and I am happy to announce several new projects with Ryan Arenson, Diane Victor, David Koloane and Clive van den Berg. We wish you all a wonderful holiday and look forward to an inspiring 2008! All the very best from all of us at David Krut Print Workshop, See you next year! |
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