On the 8th to the 13th of February 2010 Deborah Bell worked with David Krut Workshop Manager, Jill Ross, at the newly established workshop at Arts On Main. Bell was the first artist to collaborate with Jill Ross in this space and ‘christened’ it by working on and creating a new series of monotypes.
Monotypes are [...]

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David Koloane is an artist who grew up in the township of Alexandra and has worked in the arts in South Africa for more than 25 years.  During this time, Koloane has explored many different techniques to create highly emotive art pieces.  Focusing on painting in acrylic and water colour, and making prints using etching [...]

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January 26, 2010 – William Kentridge Nose was launched at Arts On Main to a wonderful reception. As well as the launch of the publication, it was the first time that the suite of thirty etchings, Nose, were exhibited together. Kentridge’s Museum of Modern Art exhibition, and the premiere of the opera, Nose, at the [...]

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Below are images from the hanging by Jillian Ross (David Krut Print Workshop manager) of the Nose suite of thirty etchings by William Kentridge in the David Krut Bookstore, Arts On Main. The publication, Nose, will be launched on Tuesday January 26, at 18:30 at Arts On Main. The below photographs were kindly provided by [...]

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Paul Stopforth is currently full time visiting faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an artist who draws on memories and fragmented visions of South Africa, where he grew up. It is his positioning within the diaspora that plays a vital role in his image-making processes.
When he stepped [...]

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RIPPLES OF BIRD SONG
Excerpted from The Journey by Rabindranath Tagore
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The morning seas of silence broke into ripples of bird song;
And the flowers were all merry by the roadside;
And the wealth of gold was scattered through the rift of clouds
While we busily went on our way and paid no heed.
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TWILIGHT SHADOWS ACROSS
Excerpted from The Leyou Tombs [...]

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“What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles… It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.” – Hans Hoffmann (1880-1966), American Abstract Expressionist painter and educator.
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There is a notion that abstract painters do not like figurative or [...]

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Courtesy of Gail Behrmann, whose exhibition, Journey, runs at David Krut Projects from 28 November 2009 – 25 January 2010.

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Definition of ‘abstract’ -The word ‘abstract’, strictly speaking, means to separate or withdraw something from something else. In that sense it applies to art in which the artist has started with some visible object [...]

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Extracts from an interview with Virginia MacKenny by Sam Alex

Sam Alex
In the exhibition ‘Crossing’ there is an image that recurs – that of a plane which appears to be sitting on water with passengers on its wings. Is that a fictive image?
Virginia Mackenny
No, very few of my images are fictive. Most of them [...]

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