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by DKP on Mar 18th, 2013
Zanele Muholi was in Geneva to present her documentary film Difficult Love at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights. The film was a way for Muholi to document the lives and daily struggles of black lesbians in South Africa. The film also looks at family life, and how the families of black lesbians relate to them.
At a Q&A session at the festival Muholi talked about “curative” rape of black lesbian women in South African. She said her wish is that others in same-sex relationships will be given an opportunity to be out, and to be free.
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by DKP on Dec 24th, 2012
Marlene Dumas and the founders of the Handspring Puppet Company were awarded honourary doctorates by the University of Cape Town this month.
Marlene Dumas and the founders of the Hand Spring Puppet Company, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, were recently awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Cape Town for their contributions to South African arts and culture. Dumas attended UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art, graduating in 1975, while Kohler and Jones graduated from Michaelis in 1974.
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by DKP on Nov 29th, 2012
Thomas Mills from Rhodes University interviewed Diane Victor about her unique art technique that makes use of smoke to create images.
Victor describes moving a flame over a paper surface to capture the deposit of smoke and compares it to “capturing a ghost”. She says that she likes the accidental nature of the soot and the way in which the process is about a continuous adding and subtracting that starts out as one thing and then turns into another.
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by DKP on Oct 24th, 2012
Leani Wessels has written an article for Finweek about South African artists to invest in, before their work becomes too expensive. Wessels spoke to Stefan Hundt, curator and head of Sanlam Private Investments Art Advisory service, who named the work of Diane Victor, Wim Botha and Gerhard Marx as good investments.
Victor’s work can be seen in TAXI-013: Diane Victor and Diane Victor – Burning the Candle at Both Ends, both by Karen von Veh. Marx contributed an essay to Handspring Puppet Company edited by Jane Taylor.
Forget seeing a decent return for an investment in an overpriced Irma Stern detailing the intricacies of some old flowers. Investors should look to the following artists to get in there before the herd discovers there’s some serious talent in this country:
Diane Victor:
According to Stefan Hundt, a curator and head of Sanlam Private Investments Art Advisory service, this predominantly sketch and print artist is so affordable, her work is bordering on the underpriced. “She’s expertly productive and draws exceptionally well,” he says. Compare many of her works that can be bought for under R10 000 to a William Kentridge sketch which recently sold for R700 000. “Her work will grow in value as people start to realise what she’s worth,” he says.
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- TAXI-013: Diane Victor by Karen von Veh
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- Diane Victor – Burning the Candle at Both Ends by Karen von Veh
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- Handspring Puppet Company (hardcover) edited by Jane Taylor
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by DKP on Aug 2nd, 2012
In an article for the Cape Times, Lucinda Jolly outlines the rise of puppetry to its current place as an established art form in South Africa. Beginning with the Handspring Puppet Company whose large-scale production War Horse put South African puppetry firmly on the map, Jolly also considers the work of SA’s lesser known puppetry pioneers:
The award-winning sculptural constructions of War Horse have captured the imagination of the world. These life-size puppet horses had even the most hardened of audiences weeping at their sheer mastery, putting the work of SA’s Basil Kohler and Adrian Kohler – founders of the Handspring Company – firmly on the map.
Africa, of course, has a long tradition of masks and puppets used in rituals. This influence was felt by South African John Wright, one of the pioneers of SA puppetry. Wright was a puppeteer who formed the company called The Little Angel Theatre in London.
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by DKP on Apr 17th, 2012
“Toe ons Handspring gestig het, was die hoop dat goeie dinge uit die palm van die hand sou ontspring.”
Só sê Adrian Kohler, medestigter van die Handspring Puppet Company, in ‘n dokumentêr oor hul wêreldberoemde perdpoppe in die teaterstuk War Horse.
Goeie dinge het beslis uit Kohler en sy vennoot en lewensmaat, Basil Jones, se palms ontspring, want War Horse was nie hul enigste sukses nie. Daar was die renoster van die produksie Woyzeck on the Highveld, die hiëna van Faustus in Africa, en mees onlangs die ou mans van Or You Could Kiss Me.
‘n Retrospektiewe uitstalling van hul werk was vanjaar by die Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees te sien. Die boek Handspring Puppet Company bied nog meer informasie oor hul werk. Danie Marais het hul “droomfabriek” in Muizenberg besoek om die verhaal van hierdie eiesoortige teatergeselskap te hoor:
Dit gaan oor verlange. Verlange het Geppetto genoop om Pinocchio te maak, en verlange het asem in die houtkabouter geblaas nog lank voordat hy mens geword het.
Poppe en marionette strewe inherent daarna om die lewe uit te beeld en te beliggaam, skryf die medestigter en -direkteur van die Handspring Puppet Company, Basil Jones, in sy essay “Puppetry and Authorship”.
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- Handspring Puppet Company (softcover) saamgestel deur Jane Taylor
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by DKP on Feb 9th, 2012
Mary Corrigal recently reviewed Diane Victor’s haunting exhibition Ashes to Ashes and Smoke to Dust, which combines the impermanence of smoke with the mutability of wax to signify, what Corrigall calls, “the loss and traceability of human life”.
Read her review of Victor’s work:
When Diane Victor first started making smoke drawings, it was to direct attention to victims of violent crime. The medium was ideal for this purpose; the transparent brown residue the smoke imprinted on the paper articulated the spectral presence of the disembodied heads of deceased victims. The burning candles which she used to scorch the paper’s surface evoked rituals to remember the dead.
More pragmatic concerns may have also informed her use of this unconventional medium. In 2006 she was a finalist for the now-defunct Sasol Wax Art Awards, which demanded that artists use wax in creating art for the competition exhibition. Working with wax may have been a crippling limitation for most of the artists, but it seems to have set Victor’s aesthetic on a new path.
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- Diane Victor – Burning the Candle at Both Ends by Karen von Veh
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- TAXI-013: Diane Victor by Karen von Veh
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by DKP on Feb 2nd, 2012
A selection of Diane Victor’s more recent wost will be on display throughout the month of February at David Krut Projects on Jan Smuts Avenue and at Arts on Main in Joburg’s Maboneng precinct.
The exhibition showcases a selection of Victor’s prints, created at the David Krut Prints Workshop as well as some of her work featured at the recent UJ exhibition, Ashes to Ashes and Smoke to Dust.
The exhibition will be on show from the 4th of February 2012.
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- Diane Victor – Burning the Candle at Both Ends by Karen von Veh
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EAN: 9780958497534
- TAXI-013: Diane Victor by Karen von Veh
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EAN: 9780958497589
Image courtesy David Krut Projects
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by DKP on Jan 11th, 2012
In the following video, meet the craftsmen who make the amazing puppets for the Tony Award winning Handspring Puppet Company. Not only has the company’s performance of War Horse taken Broadway by storm, but co-founders Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones also count among their greatest successes the fact that they offer training to local workers to become real artisans in the puppet workshop:
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