Nicholas Hlobo: Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2009
R350Nicholas Hlobo’s first monograph, published on the occasion of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, traces his work from 2005 to 2009, including the making of his SBYA exhibition.
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No Fusion – Stephen Hobbs Monograph
R900The 2017 exhibition of letterpress prints, monotypes and sculpture captured Hobbs’s fascination with optical interplay and visual disruption. From the exhibition comes this Monograph – a unique flip book, combining picture fragments and words.
LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED AND NUMBERED.
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No longer whispering to power – The story of Thuli Madonsela
R250Advocate Thuli Madonsela has achieved in her seven years as Public Protector what few accomplish in a lifetime; her legacy and contribution cannot be over-stated.
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Norman Mailer. MoonFire
R220On July 20, 1969, science fiction became reality. Revisit the momentous moon landing in the 50th anniversary edition of Norman Mailer’s classic book on the Apollo 11 mission. This volume includes hundreds of images sourced from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections, documenting the lead up to, aftermath, and breathtaking moments of that giant leap for mankind.
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Nyambura Waits for the Bus
R120The story highlights the importance of doing good deeds for others and the special relationship that exists between a grandmother and her grandchild.
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ONAIR: The Gallery Premises at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre
R100book about the re-establishment of the gallery premises at the then-named Johannesburg Civic Theatre by the Trinity Session
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Our Lady of Benoni
R140Through five colourful characters, three of them living out their very individual lives in an unnamed public park in Johannesburg, Zakes Mda explores the plight of women and children in a patriarchal and male-dominated twenty-first century world.
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Out of the Wreckage
R100Dream parables and flash fiction exploring timeless contradictions and the nature of reality.
Johannesburg-based author Allan Kolski Horwitz is better known as a poet and an activist involved with several worker organizations, and here he unites these passions.
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Owusu-Ankomah – Movement to the Microcron
R400Owusu-Ankomah’s charged paintings on canvas depict an alternate world wherein monumental human figures – his core motif – are shown moving within an ocean of signs that surround, support and, in fact, define them. The way in which these figures coexist and interact with various symbolic sets has developed through distinct phases over time, reflecting Owusu-Ankomah’s own journey of spiritual discovery.
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Penny Siopis – Grief
R1250Penny Siopis’ Grief brings together a series of small glue and ink paintings on paper – occasionally with the addition of oil and collage elements – produced over a period of two years following the experience of devastating personal loss. The ‘Notes’ are bought together for the first time, accompanied by a poetic text by the artist that draws on writings by the likes of Mahmoud Darwish, Roland Barthes and Joan Didion on grief, concluding with Emily Dickinson:
‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes –’
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Penny Siopis – Shame
R1250For the first time, Penny Siopis’ Shame paintings, produced between 2002 and 2005, are brought together in monographic form as a companion to her new series of Notes, collectively titled Grief. These small mixed media paintings (including mirror paint, oil, enamel, glue, watercolour, paper varnish and found objects) are ‘intimate imaginings of childhood sexuality and dread’.
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Personal Affects: Power and Politics in Contemporary South African Art Vol. 1
R270Season South Africa is a major program of contemporary visual and performing arts that runs from September 2004 through January 2005. Launched by the Museum for African Art and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine during the year that South Africa is commemorating its first decade of democracy, Season South Africa showcases some of that country’s most gifted and acclaimed contemporary visual and performing artists chosen by an international team of curators.
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Personal Affects: Power and Politics in Contemporary South African Art Vol. 2
R200This 128-page supplement to the Personal Affects catalogue features photographs and an essay documenting the exhibition and performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Museum for African Art, New York.
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Peter Clarke: Fanfare
R380Peter Clarke is best known for work which reflects the harsh social realities of the disempowered in the Cape. Over the past few years he has been working on a series of collages, entitled Fanfare, which are each accompanied by prose.
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Peter Sacks: Aftermath
R700A catalogue from exhibition of a series of paintings titled ” Aftermath” at Peter Miller Gallery, NYC, by artist Peter Sacks from 12 September – 1 November 2014 Peter Sacks, a South African expatriate, has a biography that is as rich and varied as the art he practises. Having left his native country at a young age and gone on to become a recognised poet with tenure at Harvard, five books of poetry and a study of the English elegy to his name, Sacks stopped writing in the early 2000s and turned to painting instead.
