Top African visual artist @ AfroNova
Joel Mpah Dooh lives and works in Douala, Cameroon, and studied fine arts in Amiens, France. He has been showing extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Cameroon, Austria, Senegal, France, Cuba, Lebanon, USA and Kenya. Catch his first ever exhibit in South Africa: JUST TO SAY HELLO… A first solo exhibition of paintings and mixed media works by JOEL MPAH DOOH. Joel Mpah … Dooh is one of the finest artists on the continent and enjoys international critical acclaim with his paintings and multi media works. His recent exhibition Rendez-vous was a definite highlight of the 2006 Dakar Biennale of African Contemporary Art in Senegal. He strongly featured in the Lines of Connections exhibition with William Kentridge, Kendell Geers, Sam Nhlengetwa and Samuel Fosso, organised by the MTN Art Foundation in 2001. With this first solo exhibition in South Africa, Joel Mpah Dooh draws on a retrospective body of works and exhibits a coherent ensemble while evoking years of experimentations. With the kind support of the French Institute of South Africa. Exhibition runs until Saturday 14 October Gallery Hours Tuesday to Saturday 13:00 to 20:00 Contacts email Afronova c: +27 (0) 83 726 59 06 The gallery is just across the Market Theatre entrance Safe parking corner Miriam Makeba and Gwigwi Mrwebi St – Newtown Po box 3205 – Parklands 2121 – Johannesburg – South Africa —————————————————————————————————– FEBRUARY 2006 Get down to Newtown to the Afronova gallery for an exhibition entitiled URBAN JUNGLE: Urban Jungle brings together two prominent artists from the continent; Birame Ndiaye from Dakar, Senegal, and Wayne Barker from Johannesburg, South Africa. Both painters are children of the African city and its collision of cultures. They get down and dirty in the streets, sometimes the back alleys, and venture into the craziness and confusion of the concrete jungle. Exhibition runs until Saturday 11th March Tuesday to Saturday 13:00 to 20:00 Safe parking corner Miriam Makeba and Gwigwi Mrwebi St – Newtown Email Afronova Afronova...
Innovative musician VERITY causing a stir
If you love supporting SA music then you need to get behind this highly original concept from Verity, a local lass who is selling copies of her CD before it’s made in order to get enough moolahs to actually record it. Nice thinking! Click here for her site. Musicians… don’t give up hope – get innovative! Local artist’s innovation opens new doors … for SA music industry Many talented young vocal artists are faced with the challenge of funding their first album, which can amount in South Africa to a staggering R400 000. This is forcing local musicians to be highly innovative in launching their careers. One Cape-based singer/songwriter – Verity – currently has interested parties in the local and international music industry watching her progress with a model that ignores the major record labels, but still launches her career, gives money to charity, involves fans and empowers other local artists. Verity has developed a unique business model that rests on the concept of pre-selling her album on www.iamverity.com to 5 000 fans or corporate sponsors on a trust basis, before she records it. 10.6 percent of every sale will be split between two worthy initiatives – People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) and her Live Your Dreams fund for aspiring artists who lack financial backing. Once the 5 000-copy sales target is reached, a whopping R80 000 will have found its way into the charity coffers dear to Verity’s heart. Future owners of the CD also stand to win prizes from the Lucky Packet, the best so far being two R5 000 Intec distance-learning bursaries. Her business model has garnered much international attention, with a number of foreign newspapers and websites carrying coverage of her unique approach, and more recently, with a featured profile at a European business innovation conference in Copenhagen. Equally impressive is that of the seven hundred albums already pre-sold, buyers have come from 16 countries outside of South Africa. A further success is that a talented young jazz artist, Mimi Ntenjwa, has already been able to record a demo on funding she has received from the Live Your Dreams Foundation. Verity enthuses: “It is my intention to lend my voice and songs to causes I support.” Whilst Verity has lived and performed in Nashville & New York, she feels that she needs to make her impression in South Africa. “This is my home & right now I want to be here,” she says. “I feel privileged to be a part of such an incredible country and grateful for the limitless inspiration I find here.” Theo Crous of Springbok Nude Girls fame and producer of Verity’s...
SASOL SIGNATURES – entries closing!
Hurry up! Apologies for the late reminder… but some of the best work is done under pressure! Artists! R100k up for grabs… ENTER! Entries must be in on the 19 July 2006! Sheshani! Sasol New Signatures Competition Final Call for Entries Entries to this year’s Sasol New Signatures Competition officially closes on 19 July 2006. Aspiring young artists are able to register an… d enter their works at six national collection points on 18 and 19 July 2006, or online at www.sasolsignatures.co.za until 19 July 2006. Physical submissions will be accepted on Tuesday 18 July 2006 and Wednesday 19 July 2006 between 10:00 and 16:00 at the following collection points: artSPACE Durban, 3 Millar Road, off Umgeni Road, Durban, Tel: 031 312 0793 Oliewenhuis Art Museum, 16 Harry Smith Street, Bloemfontein, Tel: 051 447 9609 Pretoria Art Museum, corner Schoeman and Wessels Street, Arcadia Park, Pretoria, Tel: 012 344 1807/08 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Quad Gallery, School of Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts, Summerstrand Campus (North), University Way, Port Elizabeth, Tel: 041 504 3494 University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Design and Architecture (FADA), Bunting Road Campus, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, Tel: 011 406 8477 US Art Gallery, Corner Dorp & Bird Street, Stellenbosch, Tel: 021 808 3524 Internet entries have already opened and close on 19 July 2006. Entrants will be required to register at www.sasolsignatures.co.za by creating a username and password and completing the online entry form before submitting a work. Online entries must be submitted to one of three categories: Category A includes all two dimensional artworks and incorporates drawings, photography and all types of paintings. Category B includes three dimensional artworks such as sculptures and installations. Category C is for all new media. This may involve videos and electronic applications The annual visual arts competition, presented by the Association of Arts Pretoria, is open for entry to young and upcoming artists aged 18 years and older. This year’s Sasol New Signatures Competition boasts total prize money of R100 000. This comprises of an overall first prize of R60 000, a runner-up award of R15 000 and five merit awards of R5 000 each. The winners will be announced Wednesday, 16 August 2006 at the opening of the exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum. More details and entry forms can be obtained from Nandi Hilliard on (012) 346 3100 or on www.artsassociationpta.co.za or here...
Diane Victor @ the Goodman
Sounds like an original way to make art… and so it should be. Go and see Diane Victor’s Smoke Drawings, mused from the images of missing children and friends… Sounds sad. DIANE VICTOR 22nd July – 12th August 2006 Goodman Gallery The Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Diane Victor. The show opens on the 22nd July 2006 and will comprise of … etchings, drawings, and smoke drawings in carbon soot and stain drawings with charcoal. This body of work being presented is from drawn from the last 3 years of production. It includes large format etchings and embossings that explore notions of identity and presentation in our culture as well as role playing and its performative nature. These images are based on self observation and question expected notions of identity and the role models prescribed and imposed in our system. Also included are large format etchings that explore and rework stereotypes within religious and secular structures. Victor has recently started experimenting with a very delicate method of smoke drawing where drawings made with the smoke deposits from wax candles on paper. The results are fragile portraits in a vulnerable and transient medium of members of our society – missing children downloaded from numerous South African Police web sites and others posted of missing friends. Victor is interested in the increased fragility of the medium and its parallel to the fragility of human lives. She also interested in how character and portrait emerge out of the carbon stain of the candle smoke deposits. These drawings are intended to be a counterpoint to the more substantial figures drawn in charcoal and stain. Recurrent and persistent images that stain our national psyche through memories and habits that repeat and resurface. The consequent conversations between these images allude to a morality where the sins of the father are visited upon the child thus eluding erasure. The ongoing “Disasters of Peace” series promises additional reflections within South Africa society and focus on issues on human interaction and contacts. *************************************************** February 2006 Kick off the year with some eye-candy by visiting an art exhibition now why don’t you? And what about choosing one of our successful young artists that is making waves abroad? SUPPORT SA TALENT and get down to the Goodman. Now living and working in London and Trinidad, one of South Africa’s internationally acclaimed artists, Lisa Brice, will have first solo show here at the Goodman Gallery since 2000. “Night Vision” is a new series of paintings and drawings which opens on Saturday 21st January 2006 at midday. Brice, known for her iconographic installations on the...
Shakira, Corinne, Glenn Lewis and Johnny Gill
If we hear that “Hips don’t Lie” song one more time… we may just vomay….Shakira sounds like she’s on the loo… that thick voice thing does nothing for us. But apparently the rest of the world loves the hit as we see it soaring up the charts… we think it’s due to the awesome vocals of Wyclef Jean. Thoughts please Representers? BUT!!!! HAVE YOU… BOUGHT YOUR CORINNE BAILEY RAE CD????? My My My as Johnny Gill said – this has to be the sweetest most soulful and awesome performer we have heard since… well probably Norah Jones. If you’re into chillax souled out stuff, it’s a must-have – GET IT!!!! We love her voice, her style, her lyrics… See Corinne’s site here. And ladies, what more super-fine way to spend National Women’s day than to hear that sensual love-making voice of Johnny Gill taking you back to high school sweathearts…. Sisters of the 90’s you know what I’m talking about. Catch him live on his two-city tour. 8 August – Women’s day – Johannesburg – The Dome From R150 – R300 5 August – Durban – Westridge Park Tennis Stadium From R140 – R230 GLENN LEWIS with two NN’s – and that’s not our Glen from Metro FM – it’s the artist behind the hit “Don’t you forget it” – he’s coming out with MONIFAH to perform in Midrand and Bloem.. odd choices… Why is everyone skipping CT? Anyway, they’re also joined by MEAH PACE who is apparently a finalist from TLC’s Reality show called RU the girl…Check her MY SPACE site here and listen to her songs. Nice one Meah. 3 August – Ghallager Estate, Midrand 6 August – Boet Troeskie (WHO!) Hall – Bloemfontein Tickets R195 – R395 Buy tickets @ computicket...
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