AS YOU IMMERSE yourself in the quirky and wise body of work by Andrew Kayser currently on show at Galleri Kalashnikovv, you may experience a frisson of recognition that shifts and transitions as you look at it. But this hasn’t to do with the line work or the […]
Themes and personal stories for visual art should be grouped in that cliché that warns about making films featuring cute little children and adorable young animals. It treads on very delicate ground and should, at all costs, be avoided or only approached with great self-critical caution, particularly if […]
WHEN THERE’S A polite, clean side to something, you can rest assured that there’s always a wild, irregular messy corollary. And often the latter is more revealing and more interesting. It breaks more rules, it is much less restrained. This is one of the delicious strengths in Gina […]
SOMETHING PLEASANTLY LURID happens when you spend time looking at the body of ceramic pieces by Daniel Brand, exhibited at the Pretoria Arts Association for the April Potter of the Month slot. Having been working with the medium of clay for three years, Brand doesn’t boast a polished […]
IT IS THE ceramic dog that gets to you, first. He’s painted a delicate shade of pink. And he stands there, on the table, the epitome of uber kitsch, with his painted tongue out, his painted black eyes poised and the striations that indicate his fur all abristle. […]
CARTOONS, YOU THINK, as you begin to look at the body of work by Theresa-Anne Mackintosh currently on show at Galleri Kalashnikovv. But you put that thought to bed rapidly, when you look properly: When you’re standing in front of a work that plays with your expectations as […]
WHEN FIRST YOU cross the threshold of this gallery, this exhibition, you’re assailed by explosions of colour. There’s a hot pink that you can feel as agony in your intestines, an intense purple that makes you brace physically and there’s a sweeping of nuance in the shape of […]
The business of being neither here nor there comes under the painterly and philosophical focus of Diana Page in her first exhibition in South Africa in several years. It’s the flipside of being out of South Africa and living in Turkey for over a decade, and there are […]
FRANCE IN THE 18th century, boasted, among other things, a Rococo thinking that cast a light-hearted hue at almost everything. The artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze was one of the painters of the era, popular for his saccharine images that teetered on the sexually taboo, with young girls mourning small […]
DON’T BE PUT off by Craig Smith’s characteristic light touch on his raw canvases in It’s Irrelevant, a solo exhibition of new works mounted at Galleri Kalashnikovv in Braamfontein. Similar to the thinking of American artist Cy Twombly, Smith negotiates space, gesture and chance in a way that […]
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