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WHAT TO EXPECT AT RMB TURBINE ART FAIR 2019 www.turbineartfair.co.za

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RMB Turbine Art Fair (RMB TAF) now in its 7th year is a unique South African art collaboration that brings together galleries and artists from around the country to present and sell works. The event will be held from 12 – 14 July with a preview evening on 11 July. The 2019 RMB Turbine Art Far wll be held in a new location, 10 Fricker Rd, Illovo.

RMB TAF offers an all-encompassing cultural experience for visitors, with artisanal food and beverages, vibrant entertainment and an interactive public programme. RMB TAF differentiates itself from other South African art fairs through its accessible pricing strategy - selling price of artworks generally falls between R1000 and R50 000, which presents opportunities to savvy investors and new buyers to extend their collections easily, and for new artists to thrive off this talent platform. RMB Turbine Art Fair will present a series of special projects for visitors to view during the Fair as well as a multidisciplinary public programme curated by Kefiloe Siwisa and Nomvuyo Horwitz – titled “The Year of the mirror” which will include performance art, music, screenings, master classes and a children’s programme, talks and walkabout series sponsored by RMB Private Bank.

The Year of the Mirror - RMB Turbine Art Fair Public Programme curated by Nomvuyo Horwitz and Kefiloe Siwisa The RMB TAF Public Programme curators have sought to ignite wakeful practice, mindful reflections and (thought) activations on issues related to art production, critique, structures of education and sustainability, and models of the future in our contemporary (South) African context. The talks and walkabouts are offered to the public for free and on a first come first serve basis.

Walter Battiss, Three Pet Animals, Screen Print

Above: Sandile Radebe, Ucu, (2019, MDF and supawood, Dimensions variable Right: Norman O’Flynn, Timekeeper 113, 150 x 100cm

RMB TAF TALKS – SPONSORED BY RMB PRIVATE BANK The full list of talks, speakers panellists and talk times can be found on www. turbineartfair.co.za

In Tongues: Translating curating An interactive master class, led by the curators and founders of Pool, a platform for experimental curatorial and artistic production. Participants will collectively deconstruct and complicate the role of curatorial processes in shaping the future of art and society

Artist Talk: Between worlds

An intergenerational conversation with iconic

artist Mmakgabo Mapula Helen Sebidi and

curators

Kefiloe

Siwisa

and

Nomvuyo

Hortwitz.

Teach me all teach me nothing: Contemplating artist training In the wake of radical educational reform movements, this panel will address the issue of artist training programmes. Focusing on

formal and alternative methods of knowledge exchange, the panel will evaluate the shifting nature of educational models and the impact they have on artists; their development, perspectives, production and prospects.

The Oasis: Centring art platforms on the margins A diverse range of art practitioners operating platforms ‘on the margins’ of the local and global art market will consider the capabilities and efficacies of creative hubs. How are these non-aligned spaces centring the margins, challenging the hierarchies of the ‘art world’ and sustaining new creative constellations?

We Began Before Words: Art writing and critique in South Africa What is the role of art writing and critique where art and its experiences transcend language and literacy? What are the chosen languages of art discourse and who is voicing them? This session will focus on the relationship between the written word and visual culture, particularly in our African context.

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Above: Jan Neethling, Girl on Swing, acrylic on canvas 71 x 56 cm Carol Lee Fine Art Left: Robert Hodgins, Sarge, Lithograph

Guns & Rain, Sky Salanje, Graca

It was Given to me to Give to You: Art collecting & intergenerational wealth creation Art’s potential as a form of wealth creation and legacy building will be explored. Investment specialists and collectors will discuss how establishing an art collection can be an integral part of a robust investment portfolio.

A Womxn’s Work: On sculpting and living A conversation between leading sculptors on the processes, practices, challenges and glories of being a female sculptor in South Africa.

Rear Window – Memories of Sekoto A documentary on the life, work and legacy of Gerard Sekoto presented by the Gerard Sekoto Foundation

Concerning Us: On collective sustainability This panel will explore how artist collectives can be sustained and developed, against a trend of their rapid dissolution. What is the

value of collaboration and can collectives withstand the fast-pace changes of the industry while maintaining their identities and ethos.

When Things Fall Apart: Systematising ethics and empathy in the creative industry Can structures of care and human-centred practices be systematised to adequately address inequality, exploitation, and collective anxieties within South Africa’s contemporary art sector. What are the ethics of contemporary creative practise and how are such policies being implemented?

There are No Lines Here: Queering visibility and representation The panellists in this discussion are all practicing artists whose works’ deal with the fraughtness of identification and (self) representation. Using mythological fantasies, the virtual and speculative these artists are shaping aesthetic forms and narratives that challenge binary identity politics.

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Billy Monk - Shot in the Dark Billy Monk – Shot in the Dark is a celebration of a little-known slice of South Africa’s history. Billy Monk was a 1960s Cape Town legend whose black and white photographs of dockside nightlife reveal an underground South Africa, untouched by the division of apartheid. His own tragic story is equally as colourful.

Breathing Space The Nest Yoga Centre will lead a guided yoga and meditation session will focus on embodiment, breathing, and mindfulness.

RMB TAF WALKABOUTS - Sponsored by RMB Private Bank Daily walkabouts with art specialists and cultural enthusiasts will be hosted on a first come first served basis. The full list of walkabouts will be on the website ahead of the Fair opening.

Imbali Visual Literacy Project – Children’s Programme Imbali is committed to achieving and maintaining a leadership role in the arts, crafts and design education and training sector through upholding high standards of training and professional teacher development, emphasising quality, creativity and innovation in everything we do.

Children’s Walkouts with Alison Kearney Friday 13:00 – 14:00 Saturday 12:00 – 13:00 Sunday 12:00 – 13:00 ViDEO Screening – throughout TAF weekend.

Mammmmmmmmywata Presents Life Solutions by Alberta Whittle. The avatar of Mammmmyyyyywaaaata is based on the creolized, mythological figure of Mami Wata, as well as Yemanja in Brazil, mamlambo in South Africa and Maman de l’Eau in Trinidad. Disrupting binaries of identity, Mammmmmyyyyywaaaata represents a hybrid identity, personifying a culture of mixedness, encouraging us to get WOKE and decolonize from within.

Other Fair highlights include RMB Talent Unlocked is an emerging artist and curator mentorship program that started in 2014 under the name Fresh Produce. Assemblage, in collaboration with Visual

Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) and RMB Turbine Art Fair, has coordinated a six-month intensive workshop programme funded by RMB for emerging artists that integrates practical art-making (focusing on process and conceptual development) with professional practice training. The objective of this comprehensive programme is to provide the selected participants with support and guidance to develop their work and, very importantly, with tools to sustain their art career once the programme is completed. Appropriate industry professionals are carefully selected to facilitate each workshop whilst sharing their knowledge and personal experience. The workshop programme culminates with a curated booth by Fulufhelo

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Wim Legrand

Mobadi at the RMB Turbine Art Fair. This is a unique opportunity for an emerging artist’s work to be viewed publicly at a prestigious event.

Market Photo Workshop alumni exhibition - As a school of photography, a gallery, and a project space, the Market Photo Workshop has played a pivotal role in the training of South Africa’s photographers, ensuring that visual literacy reaches neglected and marginalised parts of our society. Since it was founded in 1989 by world-renowned photographer David Goldblatt, the Photo Workshop has been an agent of change and representation, informing photographers, visual artists, educators, students and broader communities of trends,

issues and debates in photography and visual culture. Market Photo Workshop believes in progressive education that challenges traditional modes of thinking, continuously encouraging students to critically engage with the world around them.

Dumisani Mabaso benefit exhibition - As an artist and printmaker, Dumisani’s life and work is inextricably linked to the history of South African Art. He was introduced to print making by his father who worked at a printing press and took his first art classes at the age of thirteen. He was fortunate to have had training at the Rorkes Drift Art Centre in KwaZulu Natal when access to fine arts was largely denied to black communities. It was here he

Dalene Victor Meyer, Undoing Structure

learnt weaving skills and printmaking, which have formed an important part in our cultural heritage. Dumisani went on to teach and work at the Johannesburg Art foundation, managed by Bill Ainslie to encourage expressionism in art and where many of South Africa greatest artists started their careers.

We hope this retrospective will give Dumisani the exposure he still deserves and emphasise the importance of the role he played in South African Art. His colleagues and friends will never forget this quiet and gentle man who showed so much strength in his commitment to expressing his feelings and sharing ideas though colour, texture and form. May he remain an inspiration for many years to come.

The Graduate Exhibition curated by Kefiloe Siwisa in collaboration with Maja Marx returns for a 5th year and draws huge attention from those who attend the Fair. Visitors can expect to see the exciting work of graduates who have been handpicked from across South Africa. The Graduate Show presents a great opportunity to buy and start collecting

some fabulous work of artists who are at the beginning of their artistic careers.

Installations have always been an exciting part of the RMB Turbine Art Fair and 2019 will be no exception. The new space lends itself perfectly to installations and visitors will see the likes of Nkhensani Rihlampfu presented by M Studio Community and Jake Singer. We also look forward to an exhibition presented by the Gerard Sekoto Foundation.

For more info: www.turbineartfair.co.za

Dates: 12 - 14 July 2019 Venue: 10 Fricker Rd Illovo, JHB Weekend pass: R250 via webtickets or R300 at door Children R100: 4 years & older Includes access to children’s arts area and children’s walkabout on a first come first serve basis Students & Pensioners: R100 at door and R80 via Webtickets (Friday only) VIP opening night (11 th July): R750 via Webtickets only.

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GALLERY HIGHLIGHTS AT RMB TAF 2019

THOMARTS GALLERY

Intimations and Arrangements is a fresh, furious, innovative, pulsating and thoughtprovoking new body of work that Thomarts Gallery, an artist-owned studio-cum-art gallery, will be exhibiting at Turbine Art Fair 2019 at 10 Fricker road,Illovo from 11-14 July.

Thomarts Gallery will feature new paintings and sculptures in mixed media and found objects by world-renowned SA artist Nkosinathi Thomas Ngulube prior to his solo showing at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles this year in the month of September.

Nkosinathi proposes us on a journey into his groundbreaking techniques on sculpture and paintings that are reminiscent of an additive process. This body of work, painstakingly prepared for this TAF 19 show is pronounced as assemblage. Its pulsation and unmistakeable vibration, co-existing materially and technically with an amusing irony that is not short of a dramatic excitement, identifies with the artist’s freedom of expression.

His choice of materials do not naturally concur with each other, being deadmen in his consideration, but as a creator he has expertly fused these disparate objects together to convey the subject matter of his work. The subject matter that augments his works are notions of religiosity(sic), materialism, racism, sexism, sexuality and other controversial traits of humanity that he executes from a Spiritual view point.

Off the record, Sculpture with found objects. 100cm x 40cm x 20cm

‘’As much as the key signature of my work lacks no beauty, the perceptive purpose of its value lies in provoking my audience to participate, delve in it and THINK than meets the eye’’

Most of the works on the show are a diversion from the conventional hung paintings, which he has refashioned into rhombus forms.

www.thomartsgallery.com

Passion, 65cm x 65cm.Steel, Indian Ink,Oil Pastel, Oil Paint and Graphite on Hessian fabric.2019, signed underneath with thumb print and backside

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The haves and the have-nots,108cm x 71cm x 5.6cm, Found objects, Indian Ink, Oil Pastel, Oil Paint and Graphite on canvas-on-board, 2019, signed bottom right

Billy Monk, The Spurs, 29 December 1967 From Billy Monk - Shot in the Dark at RMB TAF 2019

ART@AFRICA

An Augmented Reality limited edition Art Experience – A first at the Turbine Art Fair!

Artists exclusive to Art@Africa’s participation in the Turbine Art Fair 2019 are David Griessel, Gregg Price, Maureen Quin, Talita Steyn, Barney Bernardo, Eben, Ndabuko Ntuli, Kara Schoeman, Kobus Walker, Lauren Redman and Marke Meyer. Art@Africa’s director Dirk Durnez has created memorable art experiences for over 30 years and been at the forefront of applying new technology in international museums and edutainment centres. Durnez states that “it’s about telling meaningful stories and creating the relevant environment to immerse people into”. He “bases ‘his’ designs on the synergetic concept of 3 spaces; the ‘cognitive space’ (the content), the ‘social space’ (where the person and his/her experience is central) and the ‘dream space’ (the area of the symbolic, where fantasies and memories from the past and the culture trigger associations”. Dirk’s concepts are based on the principles; ‘handson’ (interactivity), ‘hearts-on’ (touching the soul) and ‘minds on’ (shifting perceptions and mindsets). Durnez loved ‘how Griessel’s work took

him on a journey in his universe of melancholia, displacement and traveling somewhere’.

Artists David Griessel, Henning Ludeke (creator of an augmented version of Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’) and Van Zul Gunter (a jewellery designer/3D artist) under the direction of ‘imagneer’ Durnez presents an original South African masterpiece. ‘Lord Candle Head’s Throne of Delirium’ comprises of 25 framed limited edition prints, a hand held 3 dimensional sculpture with incorporated tablet and it’s tailor-made interactive art experience.

In response to whether digital and augmented reality is real art, Ludeke answers that “artists are known as rule breakers who deeply explore the senses and how we perceive the world through them. Technology influences our everyday life and the way we make and experience art”. Dirk adds that “the immersive interactive augmented experience adds a social context contrary to Oculus and VR experiences”. This new art form’s interactivity moves you and allows the canvas to come to life as one steps into the artwork and become part of the story. www.artatafrica.art dirk@artatafrica.art / 082 774 1078

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ARTIST PROOF STUDIOS

Turbine Art Fair (TAF) is a fantastic platform for people interested in art, new buyers and collectors to be exposed to and purchase artworks by emerging and established local artists all priced below 50k. For this event Artist Proof Studio (APS), a studio based in the Newtown Cultural Precinct that focuses on all aspects of printmaking including production, collaboration, training, education and sales, promises a range of prints in a range of printmaking techniques. This year also sees an upsurge in colour and some abstract work from Lucas Nkgweng and Pule Ratsoma.

TAF provides APS with enormous opportunity to meet new people, share our passion for printmaking and involve our senior students as professional printmakers to participate in the Strauss and Co. collaboration. Also to look forward to is Dudu Bloom at the Fresh Produce stand. Dudu is an exceptional 2018 APS graduate who was selected to participate in this year’s Fresh Produce initiative which includes a mentorship programme and exhibition of work at TAF.

Firm favourites including; Sizwe Khoza, Ramarutha Makoba, Donald Makola, Cromwell Ngobeni and Thandiwe Khumalo are featured alongside new emerging artists including; Raymond Fuyana, Thuli Lubisi, David Madlabane to name a few.

Our gallery team and selected artists are looking forward to being available throughout the weekend at the new venue in Illovo to share their passion for prints with the public and answer any questions relating to the artwork or processes involved in the making of the work.

Thuli Lubisi, Bound To Interact, 2019

Ramarutha, Just Another Day, Screenprint , 2019

Cromwell Ngobeni, Getting To It, Going Through and Getting Through It III, 2019

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David Madlabane, Spaces, 2019 Thandiwe Khumalo, Happynes, 2019

SA PRINT GALLERY Dealers in Fine Art Investment Prints

The SA Print Gallery (est 2007) seeks to promote both the language and education of fine art printmaking in South Africa. Our dealership mainly starts with early SA printmakers around 1910 to contemporary artists.

All of our works have been checked, authenticated and if need be carefully restored. Each work selected is consciously part of the rich SA printmaking history. In our minds a good print isn’t a reproduction of a work by a popular artist, but something amazing even by an obscure or unknown artist. Our passion is fine art prints and the works that you will find are prints that are selected for their beauty or relevance to SA fine art printmaking.

109 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. Tel 021 3005888 email info@printgallery.co.za

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