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Essential Korea Art: From Prehistory to the Joseon Period

This book successfully conveys a portrait of Korean graphic art in its entirety, and in doing so gives the reader a feeling for Korean culture and history not found in ordinary histories. It is both visually attractive and interesting to read. It is filled with stories about the artists and their milieu, and discusses the [...]

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Julie Mehretu: City Sitings

In her celebrated large-scale paintings, which are built up with layers of acrylic paint on canvas and overlaid with gestural pen and ink marks, Ethiopian-born, New York-based artist Julie Mehretu explores issues of mobility, social organization, political entanglement and global competition.

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Swoon

When the 27-year-old Brooklyn street artist Swoon had her first one-person gallery exhibition at New York’s Deitch Projects in 2005, the area surrounding the gallery was so overrun with fans and friends that neither cars nor pedestrians could pass through. Reviews in all of the major New York papers, and even national news sources like [...]

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Maja Maljevic – Into the Spine Opening

9th May 2009 by Luke Crossley

Maja Maljevic’s exhibition of prints and paintings, entitled Into the Spine, opened at David Krut Projects on 7 May 2009. Below are selected images of the exhibition.
 
 
  The exhibition will conclude on 13 June 2009

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Gerald Sekoto – My life and work

Gerard Sekoto was one of the first black, modern artist in South Africa . It is only now his work is becoming more widely known. In this book, Sekoto tells the story of his life from herding cattle in Botshabelo in the Transvaal to living in self-exile in Paris in France. He tells how he [...]

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George Pemba – Painter of the People

While Pemba is a fairly well-known artist in the Eastern Cape, he has only recently begun to get wider national exposure. Pemba struggled to get formal training, and to earn a living form his art. With the introduction of apartheid policies in 1948, Pemba found it even more difucult to pursue his art. He decided [...]

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Night Studio – A Memoir of Philip Guston

Night Studio is an excellent read about one of the more fascinating and well thought out artist’s in American history, Philip Guston. From the very personal standpoint only one year after Guston’s premature death at the age of 66, Guston’s daughter Musa Meyer shows both a historical and emotional view of her father and his [...]

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TAXI-013 Diane Victor

1st February 2008 by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

David Krut Publishing is proud to announce the publication of the thirteenth book and Educational Supplement in the TAXI Art Books series, TAXI-013 Diane Victor, by Elizabeth Rankin and Karen von Veh. The book will be launched at David Krut Projects, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, on Saturday 8 March at 11 am.

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David Krut Projects at the Joburg Art Fair

28th January 2008 by Lucy Rayner

We invite you to visit our booth at the Joburg Art Fair this March. David Krut Projects forms part of a multi-layered organisation, every element of which you are guarenteed to find naturally incorporated into the eccentric personality of Booth 23. We are a project space intimately linked to a professional print workshop (DKW), an art books publishing house (DKP) and a community outreach programme (TAEP).

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Avant Car Guard – Void Romance 3.0

A Solo Exhibition by AVANT CAR GUARD at David Krut Projects
Opens 18:30 on Thursday 3 April, 2008

AVANT CAR GUARD are Zander Blom, Jan-Henri Booyens and Michael MacGarry – a three member visual artist from Johannesburg. They have exhibited at a national and international level over the past 18 months, and have published a book on their production entitled Volume 1.

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