MILENE RUST: Jun 5, 2008

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Adventure/Safari's/Escapism/Trans/Artists/Writers

Africa Remix

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/minisites/africaremix/index.htm

"Adventure's Series" - for Peter Beard - Multimedia 2008
copyright mrust 2008

http://www.peterbeard.com/
http://www.peterbeard.com/chronology.htm

Career: Escapism through collage, books, diaries and anthropology

"Aidsafari" - Adam Levin. http://www.aidsafari.com/index2.html

“I’d thought at first that this would be a depressing book, but this was furthest from my mind as I read, for the second time, Adam Levin’s memoir of horror, humour and hope.”Pieter Dirk Uys.

Adam Levin

Landart - Description: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0061379.html

Prominent South African Artists: Listing:

Strijdom van der Merwe - http://www.strijdom.co.za/

William Boshoff

Jane Alexander - http://www.artthrob.co.za/99july/artbio.htm

Claudette Schreuders - http://www.artthrob.co.za/00sept/artbio.html

Sue Williamson - http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1215

Berni Searl - http://www.artthrob.co.za/00may/artbio.html

William Kentridge

Karel Nel - http://www.artthrob.co.za/99oct/artbio.html

Diane Victor - http://www.art.co.za/dianevictor/default.htm

Robert Hodgins - http://www.artthrob.co.za/00jun/artbio.html

Gerald Sekoto

Marlene Dumas - http://www.anthonymeierfinearts.com/inventory/dumas.htm

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/marlene_dumas.htm

Kendall Geers -

Link - Museum for African Art in New York - http://www.africanart.org/

Personal Affects: Power & Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, Vol 1

Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art presents newly commissioned and recently produced works of 17 artists working in diverse media, including sculpture, drawing, photography, painting, installation, video, performance, and dance. The artworks represent artists' responses to a week-long stay in New York and visits with the international team of curators. The common thread throughout the exhibition is the highly personal point of departure of their working methods, informed by their varied experiences as South Africans. Participating artists include Jane Alexander, Wim Botha, Steven Cohen, Churchill Madikida, Thando Mama, Mustafa Maluka, Jay Pather, Johannes Phokela, Robin Rhode, Claudette Schreuders, Berni Searle, Doreen Southwood, Samson Mudzunga, Clive van den Berg, Minnette Vari, Diane Victor and Sandile Zulu. Exhibition catalogue with Introduction by curators David Brodie, Laurie Ann Farrell, Churchill Madikida, Sophie Perryer, and Liese van der Watt, and essays: The Enigma of the Rainbow Nation: Contemporary South African Art at the Crossroads of History by Okwui Enwezor, Towards an 'Adversarial Aesthetics': A Personal Response to Personal Affects by Liese van der Watt, and artist interviews by Tracy Murinik. Published by the Museum for African Art, New York and Spier, Cape Town. September 2004. 176 pp.
Paper: ISBN 0-945802-42-0. LCCN: 2004111256.

South African site: Listings/website/interviews/gallery's/artists

http://www.artthrob.co.za/

more info: http://milenerust.blogspot.com/2008/05/art-galleries-in-south-africa-34-long.html

International - New York based website:

http://www.artnet.com/

http://www.art-collecting.com/galleries_ny.htm

http://www.contempafricanart.com/

http://www.gagosian.com/

http://www.pacewildenstein.com/

http://www.metmuseum.org/

ART WORLD WIDE - THE POWER OF CULTURE
Read more:

http://www.powerofculture.nl/en/theme/art_worldwide

http://www.goreeinstitute.org/

http://www.kunsthal.nl/

Art and culture create space for imagination, dialogue and interpretation. Artists and writers all over the world are exploring, commenting on and giving shape to reality. Artists are searching, individually and collectively, for alternative solutions and other values. A free society needs cultural innovation. But art is also an aim in itself, as a mirror and interpreter of our existence.