Sculpture

Nakanjani, Dada Khanyisa’s got a good feeling

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 29 Jan 2020

Artist Dada Khanyisa on responding to the opportunities that their practice offers them, by all means necessary

Wa Lehulere’s new take on education

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 17 Jun 2016

Although the artist is starting a whole new conversation, he picks up on threads from his earlier shows and expands on them.

Exhibition toasts SA sculpture world’s ‘stars of the north’

Article Same Mdluli - 12 Mar 2015

Instead of overanalysing the context from which these Limpopo artworks sprung, we should enjoy them for their individual merits.

Another public sculpture for Cape Town: Toy art?

Article Melvyn Minnaar - 27 Nov 2014

For many hoping to see their work placed in the public sphere, the easy route seems to be an approach of "play-play".

Monstrous shades colours perceptions about role of art

Article Sean Otoole 1 - 13 Nov 2014

A new sculpture that neatly aligns commercial interests with art and our history has the twitterati frothing about apparent opportunism.

An interrogation of post-colonial history

Article bogdan TagDiv - 26 Jun 2014

For Meleko Mokgosi, painting – as an act, object and commodity – is always political. And his approach to his work is unrelentlingly uncompromising.

US student rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 Jun 2014

A young American in Tübingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina.

Art and the grey area of ‘betweenness’

Article Same Mdluli - 29 May 2014

Institutions need to engage more rigorously with "rural" artists such as Johannes Segogela and Jackson Hlungwani, writes Same Mdluli.

Frances Goodman’s manicured bed of nails

Article bogdan TagDiv - 8 May 2014

Frances Goodman is sanguine about giving territory and feminine identity the finger(nail) in a bold new exhibition.

#Savetherabbit on Mandela sculpture, says Twitter

Article bogdan TagDiv - 22 Jan 2014

Some South Africans have taken to Twitter in an attempt to save the rabbit etched in the statue of Nelson Mandela at the Union Buildings.

Art Fair in focus

Videos Staff Reporter - 27 Sep 2013

What's waiting for you at this year's FNB Jo'burg Art Fair? We get a sneak preview of the weekend ahead and chat to curators and artists.

Top-flight printmaker takes off

Article Matthew Krouse - 22 Aug 2013

Senzo Shabangu is going solo for the first time and his incursions into sculpture are going along for the ride.

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