Fool’s Gold, Stephen Hobbs’ debut solo exhibition at David Krut Projects, explores a somewhat pathetic space, between buildings, where special even remarkable findings set up a relationship between buildings as sculpture and ‘public’ space as treasure trove. Hobbs’ current experiments with materials including lead, copper and pyrite, set out to translate the [...]

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Stephen Hobbs will be exhibiting at David Krut Projects in August 2010. Stephen Hobbs: Creating the Ephemeral by Mary Corrigall (Sunday Independent, 9 September 2009). IN 1996 Stephen Hobbs offered a rainbow up for sale. Not a photographic, sculptural or two dimensional representation of a rainbow but the genuine multicoloured arc that sometimes spreads across [...]

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http://camoupedia.blogspot.com/2010/07/artist-stephen-hobbs.html In recent days we’ve been fortunate to find online examples of the artwork of Stephen Hobbs, a South African artist from Johannesburg. Since the 1990s, he’s been using photography, video and installation media to explore and to comment on various aspects of urban life, including projects that pertain directly to camouflage. The top row [...]

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  This series of prints is part of a larger body of work (consisting of paintings and installations) on the idea and experience of ‘Shame’ as both a public phenomenon and a psychological condition. Shame is part of conflict, and current global conflicts have reinserted a sense of shame onto the public stage. But, however [...]

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27.08.2010 – The first of the Long Table Suppers, entitled “We Should be Talking More”, was held yesterday evening in conjunction with David Krut Projects at the Park Café, on the corner of Wells and Jan Smuts. Stephen Hobbs was the speaker for the evening and he treated us to an entertaining two-part talk about [...]

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Stephen Hobbs’ debut solo exhibition Fool’s Gold  opened last night at David Krut Projects. Below are images of the installation and the opening itself.    

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As part of its policy in favour of contemporary art, the Louvre has invited the South African artist William Kentridge to intervene with a specific project around the theme of ancient Egypt. Parallel to the artist’s monographic exhibition – currently showing at the Jeu de Paume, Carnets d’Egypte in the Denon wing of the Louvre [...]

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Extract from Michael Godby, Lie of the Land – Representations of South African Landscape. With Essays by Cherryl Walker, Sandra Klopper, Dirk Klopper and Brett Bennett. Published to accompany the exhibition at Iziko: The Old Town House, Cape Town, and the Sanlam Gallery, Bellville, 2010. Penny Siopis and William Kentridge, in different ways, introduce actual [...]

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At a recent walkabout conducted by Diane Victor at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, I was surprised by how openly she spoke about her recent body of work.  Victor was emphatic in describing her narratives as almost always carrying an element of humour.  Her concern is that if the spirit of satire is overlooked by [...]

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David Krut Projects is pleased to confirm the extension of the exhibition Nose: Thirty Etchings. Please take the oppurtunity while the exhibition runs to see the full thirty etchings, as well as the book Nose, written by William Kentridge. Below are photographs taken from David Krut Projects, Johannesburg.

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