Lizette Chirrime
The third installment of Perspectives features Mozambican artist Lizette Chirrime who will be exhibiting later this year at 1:54 in London and whose show “A Sinfonia da Alma Liberta II” (Sounds of a Free Soul) is currently on view at Worldart.
Continue ReadingWhat’s Cooking, Good Looking?
If museums absorb the taste set by the primary market at the time, then auction houses are the fancy restaurants where collectors go to eat.
Continue ReadingHunger Artist – Kate Gottgens
Kate Gottgens is South Africa’s master hunger artist. No one has better conveyed the crack and the hollow that fissures and empties experience.
Continue ReadingEditorial
If pressed, how would you go about describing the present? One way to understand these times in which we live is to look at the present as a place where the past meets the future.
Continue ReadingIgshaan Adams
The second installment in Perspectives features artist Igshaan Adams who talks to us about his show Oorskot, currently on view at blank projects in Cape Town.
Continue ReadingHome Truths
‘Private life’ seems like a concept that is almost as outmoded as, if not the CD, then perhaps the cassette tape.
Continue ReadingLetter to Europa
Letters, hand-written, stamped and posted, are archaic throwbacks to a culture we nostalgically dub ‘slowness’ – slow food, slow beer, slow sex, slowed down hand-made things. The art gallery however has remained largely immune to this threat to slowness.
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The way to the future is not to consider the past as the realm of the dead but instead to grasp the possibilities of new life.
Continue ReadingSantu Mofokeng: Stories 2, 3 and 4
Curated by Joshua Chuang in collaboration with the photographer Steidl’s stories series presents images from Santu Mofokeng’s archives which compliment already published and exhibited work.
Continue ReadingFrank Kilbourn
The first in the Perspectives features an interview with businessman and collector Frank Kilbourn who is the newly installed chairman of Strauss & Co.
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