(above) Master printer Phil Sanders, and DKW Manager Jillian Ross.
Master Printer and Director of the Robert Blackburn Print Studio, New York, Phil Sanders, has been invited to the David Krut Print Workshop (DKW). He will be at DKW for three weeks to work with the printers and select artists. The Robert Blackburn Studio was [...]

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Jillian Ross, Workshop Manager of the David Krut Print Workshop (DKW), and Deborah Bell travelled recently to Wiltshire, UK to work with master printer Jack Shirreff of 107 Workshop, one of the oldest and most prestigious print workshops in Europe. The trip was part of an ongoing series of collaborations between artists and [...]

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Telegrams From the Nose
William Kentridge and Annandale Galleries
Films, Sculpture, drawings, and etchings

by Harry Inglis, NY
To complement their current exhibition of William Kentridge’s works entitled, Telegrams From The Nose, the Annandale Galleries of Sydney have produced, under Anne Gregory’s guidance, a marvellous book-cum-catalogue, of the same title, which serves as both a handbook to those attending [...]

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Wilma Cruise came to David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) this week to create three large-scale monotypes for her upcoming show at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg. She wanted to establish an initial drawing without using the conventional ‘ink and paintbrush’ application. She had previously sourced Caran d’Arche wax crayons in London during a recent [...]

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This is one of many design books available at David Krut Bookstores.
The most forward-thinking trends across the field of design are celebrated in Design Life Now, a publication from the National Design Triennial in conjunction with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s exhibition series and luxury publisher Assouline.
The curators set out to listen to the pulse [...]

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People are dying everywhere because they do not have access to such basic things as food, water and electricity. At the same time, those with the experience and knowledge to redress this balance design wine labels and Maserati billboards. Design For the Other 90% gathers together the work of designers who are seeking to alleviate [...]

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In our last post of Printmaking Techniques, we explored Diane Victor’s use of softground to achieve etched textures. This week we focus on the purists approach to the softground mark, which has as its aim the creation of pencil-like lines on the plate, as illustrated in the recent works of Bruce Backhouse. Softground etching [...]

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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Man Ray (1890 -1977) and Francis Picabia (1879-1953) each made a huge contribution to the development of early modernism, pioneering new ideas about art and art-making that continue to reverberate today. Although involved successively with Cubisim, Dada and Surrealism they remain individual figures, despite their intermittent friendships and occasional collaborations with one [...]

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Author: Edited by Jennifer Mundy, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 248 pages, 290 x 215 mm, illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377319 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Widely regarded as one of the leading sculptors of the last twenty years, Juan Munoz came to prominence in the mid-1980s, when he was at the vanguard of a return to the human form. Munoz’s figures, however, are not the usual stuff of classical sculpture. Located in architectural settings, they may be seated on benches, [...]

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Author: Edited by Sheena Wagstaff, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 176 pages, 297 x 200 mm, 120 colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377326 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Everyone Their Own Projector is an artist’s book published by Captures Edition in Valence, France. It was created as the focus of the exhibition of the same name held recently in Paris. Kentridge made roughly one hundred drawings for the book, using collage on text pages torn from books he has cannibalized for years, such [...]

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Author: William Kentridge, English, Collectible.

Specifications: 19.5 x 26cm
, ISBN: 978 2 9531889 0 5 .

Price (ZA) R950.00