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Whitney McVeigh to take part in NOW&FUTURE: JAPAN | 5 March 2010, 27 Jan 2012
REVIEW: Simon Stone at SMAC Art Gallery Cape Town by LLoyd Pollak, 12 Jan 2012
'Like his exhibition at the Irma Stern Museum in 2006, Simon Stone’s current show, 'Thrown Together', comprises a variety of his characteristic pin-board compositions, a handful of his still lifes and several of his thick 500-paged noteboo...
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Gallery artist Whitney McVeigh to show at London Art Fair 18 – 22 January 2012, 09 Jan 2012
The London Art Fair presents over 100 galleries featuring the great names of 20th centur...
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Review: Die Burger - Van verkenning tot ontdekking, 05 Jan 2012
"Die visuele kunstenaar Nel Erasmus kry waardige hulde in die Eikestad" so skryf Amanda Botha in 5 Januarie 2012 se uitgawe van die Burger....
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Anton Karstel, Johann Louw, Barend de Wet and Sue Pam-Grant included in FACET charity auction, 24 Nov 2011
On Thursday, 24 November 2011, Delaire Graff Estate will host a charity art auction featuring the donated works of 15 leading South African artists to benefit FACET (For Africa’s Children Every Time), the chari...
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20 Stellenbosch: Two Decades of South African Sculpture , 26 Oct 2011
20 Stellenbosch builds on the successful sculpture exhibition 20: South African Sculpture of the Last Two Decades which was hosted in Gauteng by the NIROX Foundation in 2010. Like its forerunner this exhibition will, in part, pre...
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LISTENING TO THE DISTANT THUNDER: The art of Peter Clarke | Iziko National Gallery, 19 Oct 2011
About to open at the Iziko South African National Gallery is ‘List...
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Review: Abstract South African Art Revisited, 23 Sep 2011
"Abstract South African Art Revisited offers a rich and varied overview that should advance greater understanding and appreciation of abstract art in South Africa". Marilyn Martin, writer, curator and art historian reviewed Abstract Sout...
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Review: Listening to Distant Thunder , 23 Sep 2011
SMAC Artist, Peter Clarke recently exhibited a major retrospective exhibition Listening to Distant Thunder at the Standard Bank gallery, Johannesburg. Jacki McInnes reviewed the exhibition in the 10.1 Spring issue of Art South Africa....
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SMAC Art Gallery at the FNB Joburg Art Fair, 23 Sep 2011
Please join SMAC Art Gallery at the FNB Joburg Art Fair 2011, Sandton Convention Centre, from 23 – 25 September, Booth 10.
Peter Clarke: Book signing on Friday, 23 September from 18:00 – 20:00 pm and Saturday, 24 Septe...
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SPIRIT Sport is Art | Photographic Exhibition , 15 Sep 2011
The JAG Sports and Education Foundation has teamed up with Absa Private Bank to showcase an inspiring exhibition of photographs by some of South Africa’s top sports photographers. The exhibition entitled SPIRIT unveils the force within ...
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Kathryn Smith and Sean O'Toole talking about Barend de Wet | The book Lounge, 13 Sep 2011
This Tuesday at the Book Lounge, Kathryn Smith and Sean O'Toole are having a public chat about Barend de Wet and his book, barend de wet - The artist’s monograph by Kathryn Smith. Read the Complete Article here...
SMAC Artists feature in major group exhibition at Circa on Jellicoe, curated by Ricky Burnett, 08 Sep 2011
SMAC Artists Anton Karstel, Nel Erasmus, Wayne Barker, Georgina Gratrix and Simon Stone will be part of the exhibition HORSE, Multiple Views of a Singular Beast, curated by Ricky Burnett.
The group exhibition opens on Thursday 8 ...
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Peter Clarke recommended by CNN, 26 Aug 2011
Peter Clarke's retrospective at Standard Bank Gallery has been recommended by international news network, CNN, as a must see exhibition.
Sue Pam-Grant included in an Exhibition Celebrating 20 Women Artists at the L’Ancienne Residence, Johannesburg, 15 Aug 2011
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Picasso to Mid-Career : A series of four lectures presented by Lloyd Pollak , 11 Aug 2011
Just as Michelangelo proved to be the supreme genius of the 16th century, dominating the High Renaissance and Mannerism, so Pablo Picasso (1962 - 1973) became the colossus straddling the 20th century and shaping its art. ...
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REVIEW : CAPE TIMES - Abstract look at apartheid, 03 Aug 2011
Suzy Bell brings a fresh perspective to the South African Abstract movement, contextualising it in South African history and other relevant social movements of that time.
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Review : Die Burger - Inheemse abstrakte kuns in Eikestad te sien, 14 Jun 2011
Die Smac-galery in Stellenbosch bied die vierde in 'n reeks uitstallings aan wat inheemse abstrakte kuns vier....
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Peter Clarke on the cover of the Art Times, 31 May 2011
Peter Clarke Retrospective Exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery, 04 May 2011
Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke
Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, 4 May – 2 July 2011
'Listening to Distant Thunder: The art of Peter Clarke', runs at the Standard Ba...
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Edoardo Villa | 1915 - 2011, 03 May 2011
We are deeply saddened by the passing of one of South Africa’s greatest artists Edoardo Villa on Sunday the 1st of May at the age of 95.
Edoardo Villa was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1915 and studied at th...
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Review : Classic Feel - Peter Clarke, Journey from the Docks, 30 Apr 2011
When at the age of 27, Peter Clarke decided to become a full time artist because remaining a dockworker in Simon’s Town would be ‘the end of him’. Fifty Five years on, this extraordinary man has participated in over 95 exhibitions worldwide;...
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Barend De Wet’s sculptures to be exhibited on Main Street Life Rooftop Bar, 10 Apr 2011
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Johann Louw featured in House & Leisure April 2011, 05 Apr 2011
That lauded painter Johann Louw’s intense and powerful works are created in a rustic barn on a farm on the outskirts of Piketberg, a small town in the Western Cape, is almost to be expected. His portraits, seascapes and still lifes reveal a sens...
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Review: The Mail & Guardian - A Streak of Madness and a Lick of Paint, 11 Feb 2011
It seems oddly appropriate in the context of Wayne Barker's art to begin introducing his exhibition Super Boring with a religious reference, albeit a reference taken from the writing of a religiously revered artist (not God), namely the s...
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Review: The Times - Barker not so 'Super Boring', 04 Feb 2011
"The opening of the exhibition was fabulous.'' says Wayne Barker, looking over the top of his glasses, legs crossed, arms folded and leaning back in his casual way. He is minus his characteristic hat, but I see a strin...
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Review: The Citizen - Rebel with a cause, 03 Feb 2011
Wayne Barker's retrospective exhibition 'Super Boring' shines brightly -
Wayne Barker's art is anything but boring, giving the title of his midcareer retrospective exhibition Super Boring a bit of an ironic edge.
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Wayne Barker | Super Boring | Retrospective Exhibition | Standard Bank Gallery, 01 Feb 2011
Wayne Barker’s mid-career retrospective exhibition, ‘Super Boring’, runs at the Standard Bank Gallery from 2 February – 16 April 2011. It is a tribute to an artist who has, over a period of some 25 years, consistently made provoca...
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Works by Johann Louw Recommended by Sanlam curator as good investment, 30 Jan 2011
" If any South African art expert is well placed to offer advice on speculating and investing in paintings an prints, drawings and sculptures, It's Stefan Hundt, the curator of the prestigious Sanlam Art Collection, and advisor to Sanlam Private Inve...
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Review : Die Burger - Louw se skilderye spreek kleurtaal, 14 Jan 2011
Dit is opvallend hoe relatief min professionele visuele kunstenaars in Suid-Afrika met die tradisionele skildermedium werk. Johann Louw tel onder 'n klein aantal Suid-Afrikaanse visuele kunstenaars wat volhard om vir die skilderkuns 'n relevante plek...
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