Sho! Shoe Jewellery- Thuthuka Jewellery Award 2015, winners announced

The winners of the Thuthuka Jewellery Development Progamme and Jewellery Award 2014-2015 were announced at the Gala Opening of the 2015 Exhibition at the University of Johannesburg FADA Gallery on 20 February.

The two overall winners are:

•           Themba Mantshiyo from the University of Johannesburg; and
•           Malehlohonolo Moorosi from the Erkhurhuleni Jewellery Project.

The awards were presented by Thuthuka Jewellery project director Carola Ross and handed over by

Professor Federico Freschi, Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA).

Thuthuka  Jewellery Awards 2015 has introduced a second Overall Winner category, thereby recognizing excellence in students from the University Jewellery Programmes as well as the Community Schools and FET Colleges.

Say’s Director Carola Ross: “This significant shift in the way that we award the prizes is in order to recognize the innovation and excellence of all the entries despite the challenges that may be faced by the different institutions in terms of technical support, resources or equipment. While some students in community or FET contexts do not have access to the same level of technical facilities they still demonstrate the same high level of creativity, excellence and innovation. We believe that two categories recognize this while acknowledging that the contexts in which the students are working differ. “

The Thuthuka Jewellery Development Programme is sponsored by the Department of Arts and Culture and supported by various jewellery design schools, industry players and community groups developing the design abilities of young talented designers entering the jewellery trade in South Africa.

With over 300 entries from nine institutions across four provinces in South Africa, the Thuthuka Jewellery Awards is established as the industry benchmark for innovation and excellence in the design of contemporary handmade jewellery. Over 1200 students have benefited from the programme since 2008. Founder and Director Carola Ross says, “the most significant outcome is the students’ sense of pride, self-confidence and above all the ability to think critically and analytically, which is central to good design”.

Thuthuka jewellery 2015 has welcomed two new sponsors:  Browns The Diamond Store who sponsored the overall university winner a bursary valued at R25 000.00 and the community college winner a bursary valued at R10 000.00. The second new sponsor Skye Distribution, representing Converse, gave each of the 29 category winners a pair of Converse sneakers. 

The award evening made an exciting development when sponsors, The Browns Diamond Store and the Department of Arts and culture surprised the students at the Prize giving with additional prizes. Browns doubled all the silver awarded to the 29 category winners and the Department of Arts and Culture gave the two runners-up a R25 000.00 bursary each, congratulations to Zadie Becker and Mildah Motshegwa who are both current BTech students at the University of Johannesburg.

Developments to the programme this year also include the participation of students from the North West province and Limpopo Provinces  as well as an expansion of access to two institutions working with hearing-impaired groups.

The 2014-2015 Thuthuka Jewellery Awards challenged students to stretch themselves beyond their normal daily curriculum. The 2014 competition focused on the fashion industry and in particular on accessories, in this instance shoes, aptly captured in the theme ‘Sho! Shoe Jewellery?’ Students have been challenged to construct multifunctional contemporary pieces inspired by the South African insect. Entrants were judged on how they interpreted the natural shapes, textures and unique patterning of insects and translated these into multifunctional jewellery pieces that can double up as shoe trimming, beautiful jewellery or hair accessories.

Out of the 300 participants in 2014, the work of 125 finalists is on the 2015 exhibition, with 29 category winners. The winners in each category are selected by a panel of respected independent judges including Elizabeth Loubser, Masana Chikeka, Tiaan nagel, Albert Maree, Walter Oltman and Veronica Anderson.

Themba Mantshiyo, Multitasking

The 2015 University Category Overall Winner is Themba Mantshiyo from the University of Johannesburg. His multifunctional design piece can be combined into a single shoe trimming or worn as earrings, a neck piece and a bracelet. Themba’s technically sound and conceptual strong work is about a woman’s ability to multitask,

 Says Themba, “my inspiration came from the many legs of a spider and my mom who can do many different things at the same time”.

The second overall winner Malehlohonolo Moorosi from Ekurhuleni Jewellery project has designed sterling silver, brass and copper rings and earrings with a heel piece which becomes a single drop earring. Malehlohonolo is currently a level 2 student and has a strong design sensibility. Her theme this year was powerlines and fireflies.

Join director Carola Ross for a walkabout at the gallery on Wednesday 25 February a 17h30

Or on Saturday 28 February at 11h00.

Exhibition closes 12 March 2014

About Thuthuka Jewellery

The Thuthuka Jewellery Development Programme is a Gauteng-based peer mentorship programme that provides a mentorship programme in jewellery design and manufacturing to jewellery students from FET colleges and community jewellery schools across four provinces in South Africa. University jewellery design students also participate in the competition. The curriculum is focused on enhancing innovation and excellence in the production of contemporary handmade jewellery.

The Thuthuka Jewellery Awards is an annual competition that provides a national platform for student jewellers to have their work professionally showcased. Winning designs are awarded bursaries as well as prizes in the form of the tools essential to the jeweller’s practice to galvanise their entry into industry. 

South African contemporary jewellery designers come in to their own

The Thuthuka Jewellery Award exhibition will be open to the public at the FADA Gallery at the University of Johannesburg, Bunting road Campus, Auckland Park, from February 21 to March 12, 2015.

Adjudication for the 2014 Thuthuka Jewellery Awards for young aspirant contemporary jewellers is completed. The competition, in its seventh year, is supported by the partnership between the Department of Arts and Culture and the Thuthuka Jewellery Development Programme. The intention of the Thuthuka Jewellery Awards is to  showcase the best of South Africa’s young up and coming jewellery designers, who are learning jewellery making skills at community jewellery schools or at tertiary jewellery design departments, and who have had the additional advantage of having been mentored in contemporary design through the Thuthuka  Jewellery mentorship programme.

With a high number of entries from jewellery design students across four provinces in South Africa, the Thuthuka Jewellery Awards is established as the industry benchmark for innovation and excellence in the design of contemporary handmade jewellery .

The 2014 competition focused on the fashion industry and in particular on accessories, in this instance shoes,  aptly captured in the theme ‘Sho! Shoe Jewellery?’ Students have been challenged to construct multifunctional contemporary pieces inspired by the South African insect. Entrants were judged on how they interpreted the natural shapes, textures and unique patterning of insects and translated these into multifunctional jewellery pieces that can double up as shoe trimming, beautiful jewellery or hair accessories.

Founder of the Thuthuka Development Programme, Carola Ross, says, “With the fashion industry as the focal point for this year’s competition, entrants have had to raise the level excellence in both design innovation and manufacturing to create sturdy, wearable and beautiful multifunctional handmade pieces. The standard of entries we have received this year is testament to the critical insight students have gained into the principles of contemporary design and public preference.”

According to Ross, the competition is aimed at providing a platform for student jewellers to have their work professionally showcased. The competition theme in the past has been aligned to practical design-related industry sectors such as homeware, tableware, lighting and now, fashion. The intention is that this additional experience could ultimately broaden their employment opportunities. The exposure through the annual Thuthuka Awards exhibition also benefits entrants in building an industry profile and public interest in their work.

Due to the growing popularity of the competition among the South African design community and the broader public, the work of the finalists will be showcased in an exhibition from at the FADA Gallery at the University of Johannesburg, Bunting road Campus, Auckland Park, from February 16 to March 12 2015.

About Thuthuka

The Thuthuka Jewellery Development Programme is a Gauteng-based peer mentorship programme that provides a mentorship programme in jewellery design and manufacturing to jewellery students from FET colleges and community jewellery schools across four provinces in South Africa.University jewellery design students also participate in the competition. The curriculum is focused on enhancing innovation and excellence in the production of contemporary handmade jewellery.

The Thuthuka Jewellery Awards is an annual competition that provides a national platform for student jewellers to have their work professionally showcased. Winning designs are awarded bursaries as well as prizes in the form of the tools essential to the jeweller’s practice to galvanise their entry into industry.

For more information, please contact Carola Ross on:

Telephone:         +27 11 726 2502

Mobile:                + 27 83 653 5540

Email:                    carolaross@mweb.co.za

Website:              www.thuthukajewellery.com    

Benon Lutaaya conquers Cape Town

Event: Benon Lutaaya Portrait of Self solo show 

Date: 29 December 2014 – 29 January 2015

Venue: World Art gallery, 54 Church Street, Cape Town

Gallery hours: Monday to Fridays 10h00 - 17h00 and Saturdays from 10h00 - 13h00.

In association with Lizamore and Associates Gallery, Johannesburg

Ugandan born visual artist Benon Lutaaya’s foray into the Cape Town art scene has been met with enthusiasm.  This Johannesburg based artist, who works from his studio in The Bag Factory, has built a strong following among Johannesburg based collectors and now his Cape Town solo show, which sold out during preview opportunities – two weeks before it was open to the public.

The show titled “Portrait of Self”, is still open until the 29th January at Cape Town’s Worldart gallery, and was mounted in association with Lizamore and Associates, a Johannesburg based contemporary gallery.

Lutaaya’s work is largely collage based portraiture on canvas.  His medium is crucial to both his visual style as well as the content he explores. His technique reveals layers of constant manipulation, exploration and approximations in the application of collage. These layers are purposefully interspersed with elements of intervention and disturbance, intended to blur to fixed ideas, and raise important questions about the way identity is constructed. He finds the waste paper used in his collage work particularly suitable for creating his portraits as he perceives an element of humanity in the material.

This show, like his earlier works still uses portraiture as a vehicle to explore the human condition. However, while his previous solo exhibition at Lizamore and Associates in 2013, titled “Transgressions” looked to society at large and the archetypes he saw in others, in this body of work, he turns his probing eyes inwards and looks to himself as the subject of his curiosity.

Says Lutaaya: “Portrait of Self has been inspired and nourished by my day to day life experiences. This exhibition is about my identity and how I have been formed, shaped and manipulated by my own creative process.”

The artist draws from his own personal challenges, such as living as an immigrant between two worlds, and believes that “the successful integration of these ideas and emotions into my creative process serve as a constant reminder that there’s more to life, and that suffering is simply one of its punctuations and never a foregone conclusion about destiny”.

Lutaaya only started his professional career in 2010 as a paper collage artist. In 2011 he received a residency at the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios in Johannesburg, a significant institution that is part of the worldwide Triangle Trust network.  Over a fairly short career span his work has made an impact on serious collectors and the market at large.  

In 2014 Lutaaya’s work “Portrait”, a mixed media collage created in 2013, came up on the secondary market for the first time, via auctioneers Stephan Welz and Co’s . It fetched a staggering 

R 102 312, 00 five times that of the reserve price.

Through his firm belief that art can confront barriers, empower dreams and change lives, Lutaaya has used his art to significantly contribute back to the community. While he is still building his own financial sustainability as a full time visual artist, he has donated over R300,000.00 to different worthy arts and children’s’ charity causes in South Africa.

Lutaaya’s solo show will be open at Worldart Gallery until 29th January 2015.

For media enquiries:

Art Source South Africa

Kelly McErlean

011 447 2855

kelly@artsourcesouthafrica.co.za

Bianca Baldi explores explorers: Zero Latitude comes to Johannesburg after successful debut at the Berlin Biennale.

Exhibition opens at the Goethe Institute, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue- Parkwood, Johannesburg on the 2^nd of October at 18:30.

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Bianca Baldi’s evocative exhibition project Zero Latitude opens at the Goethe Institute, Johannesburg in October 2014. The second exhibition of this travelling project, the body of work consists of installation elements and a video projection. Invited by Curator Juan Gaitan as one of four South Africans to show work at the recent 8th Berlin Biennale, Baldi’s Zero Latitude is a walk through a moment in colonial history told through a peculiar historical artefact.

Central to the work is the (heavy) portable explorer’s bed produced by Louis Vuitton as a commission for the explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza for his 1905 expedition to the Congo. The trunk contained a collapsible bed frame, a hair mattress, two wool blankets and four sheets and was designed especially for his expedition by the now renowned luxury goods brand.

Baldi’s installation shows a video of characters unpacking and assembling the Vuitton-made explorer trunk, and a large-scale print work which foregrounds a painted landscape which Felix Nadar, the well-known Parisian portraitist used as a background for a famous portrait of De Brazza.

Baldi’s research for this project has been extensive. Several years of work took her to the Henry Morten Stanley archive at Museum of Central Africa, in Tervuren Belgium, the Equatorium of the Duisburg Zoo in Germany and the Nadar ArchIve, Paris, France to engage with historical depictions of De Brazza from the late 19th Century and early 20th Century to get a further sense of his character and to inspire the sartorial styling of the film. 

The artist also travelled to the Louis Vuitton Heritage Warehouse in Paris, France, where she engaged with the resident historians to study and photograph the object at the centre of this project.  

In the exhibition, the artist unpacks a series of ‘findings’ related to Brazza’s route down the Congo River, conscious of the symbolic capital, as well as power of subtle decontextualization and erasure. The installation simultaneously transfixes and contests the representation of a mythologized time and place and its subsequent narration. Not a linear exploration of history, Baldi’s work places this strange and beautiful artefact at the centre of the analysis. It evokes any number of connections, being the stark contrast of the international luxury design brand and the legacy of colonialism on the continent, to the sheer incongruency of the notion that any one man, with a bed on his back (or the backs of others) literally walking through the unmapped territories could have had such an impact on the world today

Says Baldi: “Congo is a representation of Africa in the West. Equatorial Africa has become the trope of sub-saharan Africa on which popular mythology of the continent is built. From the earliest written accounts of explorers like Henry Morton Stanley who mapped the Congo River and documented his journey in his book, Through the Dark Continent (1878), to the countless works of film and literature, the Congo River does not only provide a physical point of access to central Africa from the Atlantic but also an imaginary access for the Western world.”

Sean O’Toole writes about the piece; “Growing out of an archival research project initiated in 2012, Bianca Baldi’s Zero Latitude installation essays a pivotal moment in late-nineteenth European and African history by minutely focusing on a particular historical artefact: a custom-made portable explorer’s bed produced by Louis Vuitton, founder of the Parisian luggage goods brand. Orchestrated as a walk-through installation, Zero Latitude’s variously showcases this luxury commodity – equal parts relic, sculptural object, historical cipher and perfomative prop – as a way of addressing a period of colonial adventurism that both prefigured and decisively contributed to the irreversible outcomes of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85." (It was at the Berlin conference that the colonial powers effectively carved up the African continent between them.)

Says Baldi, “There’s a tension between the real place and the imaginary one, and through making one connection, you come across others – such as the archetypical character of the explorer, de Brazza, his cultural and consumable baggage, as well as the histories of the Congo River.”

This will be the second showing of Zero Latitude; the first showing of the walkthrough installation was at the 8^th Berlin Biennale. Curated by Juan A. Gaitián. The Biennale’s curatorial focus was on the unstable relationship between experienced and scientific histography and thus included artwork such as Baldi’s which offers different readings of history and the mechanisms of its current representation.

Baldi was invited as one of 58 artists from around the world to mark and investigate history and its fragments. Zero Latitude (2014) was commissioned and co-produced by the 8^th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art with the support from the Goethe-Institute.

Baldi grew up in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa and went on to complete a BA (FA) in studio practice and theory at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2007. Baldi was a guest student at the Universitá IUAV in Venice, Italy in 2010 and more recently completed her studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Career highlights include exhibiting on the 8^th Berlin Biennale, selected group and solo exhibitions in Cape Town, Johannesburg. Frankfurt, Berlin, Naples and Venice.

In 2013 Baldi collaborated with Bridget Baker in an exhibition project and book entitled ACT I: ÆROLITHE ILLUSION by Bureau de Cinéma Africain (ABC). The book includes texts by Clare Butcher and Bettina Malcomess.

2014 saw the launch of Baldi’s publication online project Zero Latitude: A User’s Manual. Edited by Bianca Baldi including texts by Clare Butcher and Sean O’Toole with graphic design by Marco Balesteros.

Zero Latitude (2014)

www.zero-latitude.net

HD video, colour, silent; stretched printed Voile on wooden frame and print elements

Bianca Baldi's project Zero Latitude, 2014 was commissioned and co-produced by the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. 29 May-3 August 2014. With the support of Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg.

Thanks to Louis Vuitton Malletier, Paris; Musée du quai Branly, Paris; Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Montigny-le-Bretonneux; Kadist Art Foundation

Film Credits

Assistant director: Emilien Abibou 
D.O.P : Olivier Guerbois
Assistant camera: Davy Bauret
Gaffer: Félix Marmorat
Post-production: Christopher Hummel


Character i : Julien Peltier


Character ii: Vincent Berthe

Filmed at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France.

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011 447 2855

Kelly@artsourcesouthafrica.co.za

Art Week Joburg

19 – 24 August 2014

1 FESTIVAL, 5 CREATIVE HUBS, OVER 40 VENUES!!!

SOWETO I ROSEBANK I MABONENG I BRAAMFONTEIN I ALEXANDRA

#ARTWEEKJHB
#AwehARTWEEK

Art Week Joburg

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From the 19 to 24 of August 2014 the first edition of ART WEEK JOBURG premieres in Johannesburg. Initiated by the Contemporary Art Development Trust (CADT), and launched in Cape Town in 2012, ART WEEK was supported by the Visual Arts Network South Africa (VANSA) and continues to grow each year. This year, it comes to Joburg for the very first time

“Joburg art week is an important initiative in connecting the city and offering visitors and Jozi locals the opportunity to have access to the creative activities of the city in a relatively easy and interactive way”.
Lerato Bereng, Curator, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg


ART WEEK JOBURG provides the platform to showcase as well as reinforce the existing strengths of the Joburg Art scene. Modelled on ART WEEK CAPE TOWN which has run successfully for 2 years, ART WEEK is an initiative aimed at increasing the visibility of, and strengthening, the visual arts industry in cities throughout South Africa. For one week each year, galleries, museums, arts organisations and artists, collaborate to create a strong public focus on the vibrant art scene of your city. For new and curious audiences, and those more familiar with Joburg’s art scene, ART WEEK JOBURG enables a wide and fresh engagement with new young talent and renowned works of art of notable international repute.

In the week preceding and leading up to the FNB Joburg Art Fair 2014, ART WEEK JOBURG activates various creative hubs including Soweto, the Rosebank Art Strip, Maboneng Precinct, Arts on Main, Braamfontein, Newtown and Alexandra with a line up of events including but not limited to exhibitions, artists walkabouts, performances, public art walks, panel discussions, graffiti tours and panel discussion.  Highlights of the week abound, including Pat Mautloa’s exhibition opening at Mashumi Projects in Vilakazi Street, Soweto on Tuesday 19 August, a walkabout on Wednesday 20 August by artist Roger Ballen at Circa on Jellicoe, as well as a thought-provoking panel discussion titled “Regarding Women” at Gallery MOMO, and a performance at the Goodman Gallery by The Brother Moves On titled “The Brother Breaks the Bullion”. On Saturday 23 August, Fourthwall Books gives a talk on publishing, and “Short Change” opens at the Market Photo Workshop Gallery.


About the ART WEEK concept

ART WEEK CAPE TOWN is an annual festival, running for between one and two weeks, that comprises a diverse programme of contemporary art events taking place throughout Cape Town. The inaugural ART WEEK CAPE TOWN took place between 24 November and 2 December 2012. It received  acclaim from audiences who attended the events and participating stakeholders. ART WEEK CAPE TOWN 2013 enjoyed an increase in recognition, participation and audience numbers. Initiated by the Contemporary Art Development trust (CADT), ART WEEK CAPE TOWN was made possible through the collaboration of galleries, cultural organisations, academic institutions and independent artist collectives.

The purpose of ART WEEK is to develop new audiences and increase public awareness of the vibrant contemporary art scene in Cape Town and now in Johannesburg. It promotes the activities of many artists, curators and other innovators living in and around the city. Importantly, ART WEEK also seeks to invigorate the commercial aspect of the industry, in turn generating employment opportunities. The aim is for ART WEEK to become an annual highlight in each city’s cultural calendar, and increase public access to and appreciation of the visual arts in South Africa. Based on similar successful models abroad, ART WEEK creates a public programme for one short period each year, in which galleries, museums, arts organisations and artists have the opportunity to share audiences and information resources. All participants have their various events included on a map which is distributed free of charge around the city. Unlike a regular festival or serial exhibition, the content of ART WEEK is generated entirely by participants.

This very successful format comes to Johannesburg, with VANSA driving what has been a widely collaborative and exciting process.


ART WEEK JOBURG 2014

“Gallery MOMO is excited that Art Week has finally come to our city! Joburg needs a visual arts-based activation and there is no better time than during Joburg Art Fair. The more collaborative initiatives generated in the arts, the better for everyone. This really is a positive step forward and we wish VANSA all the best in making Joburg Art Week grow from strength to strength”.
Karen Brusch, Gallery Manager

ART WEEK JOBURG is a collaborative partnership between CADT, VANSA and ARTLOGIC, it seeks to create a more robust community of art producers, consumers and appreciators, by acting as a market platform, an information hub and a leisure attraction for locals and visitors.

ART WEEK JOBURG, takes place around the 2014 FNB Joburg Art Fair, and will function around the Fair, programming, supporting and enhancing the experience in the days preceding the event. A total of 48 participants including art galleries, individual artists, independent spaces and curators will be hosting ART WEEK JOBURG 2014. Asides from the main programme broader precinct activity such as restaurants, shops, neighbourhood markets and live music are included.

“It is interesting for me to be part of ART WEEK JOBURG 2014. This helps to re-foster art in our communities and helps communities to know about local artists. For me it would be a mini retrospective having work dating from more or less the time I started doing art. Quite exciting that I would be showcasing in the place I lived around since I came to Mofolo in 1954.”
Pat Mautloa, Artist, Johannesburg

ART WEEK JOBURG features not only a wide range of programming – from exhibitions, to walk abouts to panel discussions – but also a broad range of spaces including Galleries, Non-profit arts organisations, artists’ studios and arts collaboratives. Some of these are well-established and pivotal parts of the visual arts community such as the Goodman Gallery, while others are much newer additions to an increasingly growing and thriving industry, such as Kalashnikovv Gallery in Newtown and Gom.Arts collective in Alexandra Township.

Galleries, organisations, artist studios and book publishers have come together over the past 4 months to collaboratively develop the ART WEEK JOBURG programme. This week-long, jam packed showcasing of the broadest range of Johannesburg’s visual culture will provide both new and well versed audiences with an exciting foray into what Joburg’s art scene has to offer.

WHAT’S HAPPENING AND WHERE:

Tuesday 19 August:          Soweto
Wednesday 20 August:    Rosebank Art Strip
Friday 22 August:               Maboneng Precinct
Saturday 23 August:          Braamfontein and Newtown precincts
Sunday 24 August:            Alexandra

“Art Week Joburg is a great opportunity to participate in Johannesburg's vibrant art scene. I hope to build upon this by bringing together artists from Detroit and Johannesburg at the historic Cosmopolitan Hotel in the CBD”.
Ingrid Lefluer, Curator, Detroit, USA


ART WEEK JOBURG 2014 HOST VENUES:

SOWETO

Eat My Dust
EST1912
Mashumi Art Projects
Eyethu Centre
Maboneng Township Arts Experience

ROSEBANK ARTS STRIP

Circa on Jellicoe
David Krut Projects and Publishing
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
Gallery 2
Gallery MOMO
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
Goethe Institut
Lizamore & Associates
MAKER
Resolution Gallery

MABONENG

Bailey African History Archives
David Krut Projects
GoetheonMain
Johannesburg Art Gallery
JOBURG FRINGE 2014
Living Artists Emporium
Nirox Projects Space
Parts and Labour
Museum of African Designer
RubixCube
Trinity Session
Imba Ya Sarai
Workhorse Foundry
Bronwyn Lace
Hannelie Coetzee
Kim Lieberman
Lorenzo Nassimbeni
Ingrid Lefleur

BRAAMFONTEIN-NEWTOWN

Art on Paper
Assemblage
Artist Proof Studio
Fourthwall Books
Ithuba Arts Fund
Kalashnikovv Gallery
Market Photo Workshop Gallery
ROOM
Stevenson Gal­lery, Johannesburg
The Bag Factory
Two by Two Art Studio
Wits Art Museum
Wits Substation

ALEXANDRA

Gom.Art
Maboneng Township Arts Experience

SHUTTLE INFORMATION

SOWETO

Shuttle
Parking: Wits Planetarium Parking
1 Pick-up/drop-off point 1: EST1912 Rockville
2 Pick-up/drop-off point 2: Next Door,
Vilakazi Street,Orlando
3 Pick-up/drop-off point 3: Eyethu Centre, Mofolo
4 Pick-up/drop-off point 4: Eat My Dust, Kliptown

Time: From 3:30 pmOSEBANK ARTS STRIP

Shuttle
Route
Parking: Rosebank art strip
1 Pick-up/drop-off point 1: Goethe Institut
2 Pick-up/drop-off point 2: Goodman Gallery parking
3 Pick-up/drop-off point 3: Park Town North, Gallery MOMO parking
4 Pick-up/drop-off point 4: Jellicoe Avenue, Everard Read Gallery entrance

Time: From 4pm

MABONENG-ARTS ON MAIN

Shuttle
Route
Parking: Sandton Convention Centre Parking
1 Pick-up/drop-off point 1: FNB JOBURG ART FAIR, Sandton Convention Centre Entrance
2 Pick-up/drop-off point 2: Arts on Main Entrance

Time: From 3pm

BRAAMFONTEIN-NEWTOWN

Shuttle
Route
Parking: Sandton Convention Centre Parking
1 Pick-up/drop-off point 1: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention
Centre Entrance
2 Pick-up/drop-off point 2: Juta Street, Stevenson Gallery Entrance
3 Pick-up/drop-off point 3: Juta Street, Ithuba Arts Fund Entrance
4 Pick-up/drop-off point 4: Newtown, Bus Factory parking
5 Pick-up/drop-off point 5: Fordsburg, The Bag Factory Entrance
6 Pick-up/drop-off point 5: Fordsburg, Asemblage
7 Pick-up/drop-off point 6: Braamfontein Werf, Gallery Art on Paper

Time: From 3 pm


ALEXANDRA

Shuttle
Route
Parking: Sandton Convention Centre Parking
1 Pick-up/drop-off point 1: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Centre Entrance
2 Pick-up/drop-off point 2: GOM.ART
3 Pick-up/drop-off point 3: Alexandra Township Home Galleries

Time: From 1:30 pm

SHUTTLE SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL PRECINCTS AND WILL ALSO RUN WITHIN PRECINCTS

ART WEEK JOBURG maps with venues and shuttle information are available at the VANSA Information Desk at the FNB Joburg Art Fair 2014.

ART WEEK JOBURG is proudly supported by the Gauteng Provincial Government and the Gauteng Tourism Authority
                                                         

CONTACT
Ijeoma Loren Uche-Okeke
Regional Network Development Manager | VANSA
t: +27 (0) 11 402 2085/6  |  c: +27 (0) 74 485 4631
f: 086 662 2074  |  e: artweekjoburg@vansa.co.za

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Winner of the 2013 Sylt Visual Artist's Residency, Kai Lossgott writes on his experience in Sylt.

A letter from the artist.

Dear Friends

It all happens in scorching 22 C, under blue skies, in a balmy breeze and unmistakeable quiet.  Built into the sand dunes, the Frisian thatch houses keep their secrets.  Its a bit like Disneyland and a bit like Ghostville.  It is mystery and hope, the cutting wind and a bicycle.  It wakes you at 5:30 and is only dark after 11 pm.  It is the sheer potential of really having enough hours in the day, if you just knew how to fill them.  It is not posting it on social media because you know you’d have to be here to understand.

Flat-out on the beach, I have spent hours staring at the sky while the camera did its job, shooting time lapse frames of the slowly shifting shadows in the sand.  I have ended up entirely alone with the waves for hours in the middle of the night and cycled home at 1 in the morning with a broken headlight.  I always knew I could see in the dark.  The revelation is that I can do this here without fear.

The walls of my apartment are plastered with mind maps.  I am joining dots and closing circles.  In my work here I have stumbled upon two strong new images that represent years of writing and thinking.  They point the way to the further images to be explored and what will be required.  More I will not say.  It is my long experience that work in progress should be kept a secret.  Sometimes one does not quite realise what a work in progress one still is.  Other times one is just craving approval.  Hindsight gives us fresh eyes to assess the value of what we have done.

I could not have chosen to come at a better time, as the holiday season attracts not only visitors but plenty of things for them to do.  Just outside my window is a theatre that fills nightly with vocalists, illusionists, jazz musicians, comedians, drag divas, people with fake American accents, and maverick entertainers with unique blends of all of the above.  I have kindly been gifted with tickets, and so there is much to look forward to in the evenings.


Photos:  The boys in the blue photo are the Bavarian band “LaBrassBanda", everyone's dancing barefoot and it involves tubas, folk rock-metal-techno fusion, and Bob Marley's lovechild on the base.  In the pink photo is the folk singer Dieter Thomas Kuhn in rose-coloured sequins and chest hair toupé, with twenty-something groupies up on stage going crazy, as we happily chant our way through the Woodstock summer of free love - in German.  That’s my friend Bianca on the bicycle, who stopped by for some lovely days at the beach talking about art, love, the universe, and sunsets.  A few days ago, I was invited to dinner at the local legendary SansiBar.  I got a life with some visitors from Munich in their rented coupé.  The Sansibar menu was extensive, thrilling to read, and would blow the average South African household budget out of the water, hence I tasted, chewed, smiled and listened most of the time.  The dessert was a first for me - candied olives and frozen yoghurt ice cream.  Then we raced home under an open roof and starlight.  The movie star look is free.

No details on the new work yet, haha.  I did sell a print to a wonderful lady with a sunflower on her head though. She turned out to be a hardcore attorney by profession.  I love surprises, and they keep coming.

You asked, now you know.  I am in over my head in gratitude for this wonderful opportunity, and I’ll keep you posted. ;)

Best Regards,

Kai

17th Annual Business Day BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard, Finalists announced

Congratulations again to SA Art Times and their BASA Awards nomination, for the media sponsorship of Art Source South Africa's Professional Practice Seminars! We so excited!

17th Annual Business Day BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard, Finalists announced 

The unique, shared value created by business and arts partnerships is amply demonstrated by the nearly 60 finalists in the 17th Annual Business Day BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard.

Finalists in the 12 categories that were open for entry reflect an increasing recognition, by businesses of all sizes, of the role of mutually beneficial, equitable and sustainable business-arts partnerships.

Whether it’s smaller businesses, like Trainiac SA’s strategy alignment and visualisation project for the Hillbrow Theatre Project or Buz Publicity’s pro-bono media sponsorship of Assitej SA, or sizable partnerships, for instance Bank of America’s sponsorship of Gerald Sekoto: Song For Sekota at the Wits Art Museum or Samsung Electronics Africa’s support for the Pan African fashion design event, Amaze Africa, this year’s finalists showcase the different and exciting ways that business and arts partnerships have manifested between January and December 2013 . 

Another striking aspect of this year’s BASA Awards is the wider geographical spread of finalists, with a strong showing by arts and business partnerships in Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Eastern Cape. Among these are the nomination of Pam Golding Properties Kynsna for the Knysna Literary Festival in the First Time Sponsor category; Siemens’ sponsorship of the Tree of Wisdom at Mandela School of Science & Technology in Mvezo; and Nashua Pietermaritzburg’s support of Msunduzi Pietermaritzburg Tourism’s Art in the Park event, one of the finalists in the Arts in the Environment category, supported by Nedbank. 

The Long-Term Partnership Award, supported by Stephan Welz & co, rewards sustained arts-business partnerships and is once more underlined by the nomination of several past winners. 

These include Sasol for the SASOL Free State/Northern Cape Schools Festival, Standard Bank of South Africa Limited for the Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown and Rand Merchant Bank for its support of the National School of the Arts Festival of Fame and The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative. 

Judges for the 17th Annual Business Day BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard are CEO of the Mastrantonio Group Giovanni Marian (chairman); media consultant and editor of Destiny Man Kojo Baffoe; Sunday Independent arts critic Mary Corrigall; independent arts consultant Nicky du Plessis; television host, arts advocate and CEO of the National Heritage Project Company Dali Tambo; 5fm DJ Fikile Moeti; Experiential Marketing Director at Ogilvy and Mather Thresho Selesho and academic and practising artist, Roelof Petrus van Wyk.

“I believe that arts and culture are manifestations of our Nation's soul,” comments Gianni Mariano, chairman of the judging panel. “Business support for the arts creates the fabric of our society. As Business and Arts South Africa, we are proud that through the BASA awards we can recognise the excellence where business and arts meet.”

“Every year, it gets harder and harder to judge the BASA Awards with the calibre of entries,” comments Kojo Baffoe, editor of Destiny Man. 

“It is always heartening to see the real commitment that parts of corporate and business South Africa are making towards building and sustaining the arts in this country. This is our soul, and business should be – and looking at the BASA Awards, is – an integral part of. More can always be done but I do believe we are on the right track.”

Winners in the 12 categories along with the Art Champion and Chairman’s Premier Awards will be presented at a gala ceremony in Johannesburg on August 25th. 

The independent panel of judges evaluated the success of each partnership in achieving its objectives and in bringing genuine value and benefit to both partners. The Awards are audited by Grant Thornton.

For more information call the BASA offices on 011 4472295 or email info@basa.co.za or go to www.basa.co.za. 

Innovation Award

• Vaal University of Technology - Agents of the 3D Revolution

• Radio Sonder Grense RSG - RSG Kunstefees 2013

• TBWA\ South Africa (PTY) Ltd - Rocking for Room13

• De Beers group Services (PTY) LTD - Shining Light Awards & Vuyani Dance Theatre

• Absa Bank Limited - Southern Guild International Exhibitions Programme 2013

First Time Sponsor Award

• Pam Golding Properties Knysna - Knysna Literary Festival

• Easigas (Pty) Ltd - OF SOUL & JOY Project

• Auto & General Insurance Company Limited - Auto & General 

Theatre on the Square

• Clear as a Bell - SHOWTIME 2013: Travelling Light

• Auto & General Insurance Company Limited - Naledi Theatre Awards

Increasing Access to the Arts Award

• Sasol - SASOL Free State/Northern Cape Schools Festival

• Rand Merchant Bank - National School of the Arts Festival of Fame

• Radio Sonder Grense RSG - RSG Kunstefees 2013

• Tsogo Sun - Tsogo Sun Arts Academy

• Rand Merchant Bank - The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative, Extended Rural and Local Outreach

International Sponsorship Award

• Samsung Electronics Africa - Amaze Africa 

• Rolex - Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative

• Mercedes-Benz South Africa - 21 Icons South Africa

• Absa Bank Limited - Southern Guild International Exhibitions Programme 2013

• Bank of America - Gerard Sekoto : Song for Sekoto Exhibition

Long Term Partnership Award, supported by Stephan Welz & Co.

• Nedbank – The Arts & Culture Trust Professional Development Programme

• Rand Merchant Bank - Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company, Instrumental Training and Development

• Standard Bank of South Africa Limited - Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown

• Solms Delta - ATKV-Oesfees

• Hilti South Africa PTY Ltd - Umculo Cape Festival, Fairy Queen

Media Sponsorship Award

• The Witness Newspaper - The Witness Hilton Arts Festival

• DeskLink Media - Arts & Culture Trust Awards

• The Citizen (Pty) Ltd - City

• Die Burger - Die Burger City of Cape Town Suidoosterfees

• South African Art Times - Professional Practice in the Visual Arts seminar

Small Business Award

• Buz Publicity - ASSITEJ SA

• Clear as a Bell - SHOWTIME 2013: Travelling Light

• Trainiac SA (Pty) Ltd - Hilbrow Theatre Project

• Artslink.co.za - National Eisteddfod Academy Young Performer Awards

• Ristorante La Trinita - Gauteng Opera, Dinner at the Opera

Strategic Project Award

• Standard Bank of South Africa Limited - Mobile Sculpture for New Standard Bank Offices, 30 Baker Street, Rosebank

• Telkom SA SOC Ltd - Telkom and UJ Design competition

• Mercedes-Benz South Africa - 21 Icons South Africa

• KPMG Services (Pty) Ltd - “We are KPMG”

• Nokia - Nokia Nothing Else Comes Close

• Spier - Sightlines’ at the 2013 FNB Joburg Art Fair

Sponsorship in Kind Award

• Webber Wentzel - Gerard Sekoto : Song for Sekoto Exhibition

• University of Johannesburg - The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative, Dance company in residence

• Adams & Adams - Design Indaba

• Deloitte - Artist Proof Studio

• PaulCluver - Hope@PaulCluver

Development Award 

• Spier - Spier Arts Academy

• Tsogo Sun - Tsogo Sun Arts Academy

• Redefine Properties (Pty) Limited - Buskaid Music Academy

• De Beers group Services (PTY) LTD - National English Olympiad( De Beers English Olympiad)

• University of Johannesburg – Think Theatre Promotions, Othello

Arts & the Environment Award, supported by Nedbank

• Siemens (Pty) Ltd - Tree of Wisdom

• RADIO Today - iStart2 Challenge

• Johannesburg Development Agency - Shadow Boxing Public Artwork

• MasterCard - Winter Sculpture Fair presented by MasterCard

• Nashua - Nashua Art in the Park

Mentor of the Year

• Pamela Grayman - Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra

• Dale Smith - Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company

• Veronica King - Johannesburg Art Gallery

• Leanne Gitlin - Wits Art Museum

Don't miss our Professional Practice Seminar in partnership with Lizamore & Associates coming up in September!