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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During the month of August, many citizens in New York go to their summer homes, and most galleries in New York close their doors as the summer heat becomes unbearable. This would explain why Hannah Dumes and Genevieve Lowe were not running our New York branch but were rather busy in South Africa filming a [...]

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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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Located at the Montebello Design Centre in Newlands, Cape Town, David Krut Projects has recently begun expanding into the cow shed to create a larger space that will encompass both a gallery space and bookstore. More can be seen at www.davidkrutprojectscapetown.com.    

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The images below have been provided by Lingo Rodrigues of Halftone Studio, who has been collaborating with Stephen Hobbs in preparation for a work which will appear in the exhibition Fool’s Gold, which runs at David Krut Projects from 12 August – 25 September 2010.               More on Stephen [...]

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      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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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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Part I Part II “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. ___________________ There is a notion that abstract painters do [...]

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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 [...]

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