#ToDo - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG)
We visit the first gallery that was founded in Joburg - the Johannesburg Art Gallery. The building was designed by Edward Lutyens, the British architect also responsible for the city’s Anglo-Boer War Memorial and houses one of the biggest art collections in the country.
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Johannesburg art fair
As South Africa's Joburg Art Fair enters its second decade, the demand for African art continues to grow around the world. The event has become the biggest platform on the continent to showcase work by African artists. CGTN's Julie Scheier has more on this year's edition
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Johannesburg Art Gallery suffers infrastructure damage
It houses over 9,000 works of art from a selection of renowned artists such as black South African art pioneer Gerard Sekoto, landscape artist Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef and abstract painter Walter Battiss.
That's the largest art gallery in southern Africa, the Johannesburg Art Gallery which boasts the largest art collection on the continent.
JAG has since been temporarily closed due to extensive water damage to the gallery's infrastructure with reports suggesting that the buidling has been slowly slipping into disrepair since the roof began to perish in 1989. Its also reported that thieves have also stolen copper sheeting from the structure, further weakening the building's standing while Chief Curator at Johannesburg Art Gallery Antoinette Murdoch has also resigned sighting lack of funds from the City of Johannesburg. To shed more light on the closure of JAG, we are joined by the Member of the mayoral committee for community development in the City of Johannesburg, Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba.
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Johannesburg Art Gallery Visit and Photowalk
See what happened at the Johannesburg Art Gallery photowalk. Take a tour of Johannesburg's reclaimed art district as we explore Maboneng.
The Maboneng area and the areas around Arts on Main have a cool, rich artsy vibe as they slowly turn old derelict buildings into trendy hot spots.
The photo walk took us all around the art neighbourhood from Arts on Main to the newly renovated Cosmopolitan Hotel. Inside the old hotel had been renovated and turned into shopping space with small galleries. The outside courtyard featured sculptures and other artworks too.
We then moved on to the Museum of African Design to see what young South African artists had been up to before heading to the AGOG gallery just a few blocks away. We then made our way back to Arts on Main passing street art including a massive mural of Nelson Mandela from his old boxing days painted on a tall building.
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#ToDo - Johannesburg Art Gallery - Making Africa Work
On things #ToDo this weekend, check out the Joburg Art Gallery with their latest Angela Ferreira Exhibition on show, and we also chat to Greg Mills about his book 'Making Africa Work', another great read to have on your collection.
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Johannesburg Art Gallery
A Johannesburg art gallery has unveiled prints of Nelson Mandela’s drawings, adapted in collaboration with a famous South African artist. VOA’s Carolyn Turner has the story.
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Johannesburg art fair focuses on East African art scene
The FNB Joburg Art Fair has just kicked off in Johannesburg. It's showcasing works from South Africa, and from across the continent. The fair runs at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg until Sunday. CCTV's Julie Scheier stopped by to take a look at what's on show.
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Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG)
We take a look at the history of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, and their latest Angela Ferreira Exhibition on show.
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Johannesburg Art Gallery marks 100 years of exhibits
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the Johannesburg Art Gallery in South Africa. To celebrate this landmark, a number of exhibitions are on display showcasing the gallery's centenary collection.
Johannesburg Art Gallery marks 100 years
This year marks the centenary of the Johannesburg Art Gallery.To celebrate this landmark a number of exhibitions are on display showcasing the gallery's hundred-year-old collection.
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The Circa Gallery was built in Rosebank in 2009 alongside the Everard Read gallery, Johannesburg’s oldest private art gallery. An architectural landmark, the building has received awards for its striking design and its green credentials, with solar panels and rainwater tanks making it one of the most self-sufficient buildings in the area.
It was designed by architect Pierre Swanepoel of studioMAS, who was tasked with creating a space for the gallery that would attract the attention of passers-by and encourage more public engagement with the arts.
The elliptical structure makes the most of the relatively narrow plot of land that it occupies and an impressive façade of 400 10m-tall aluminium fins is its most distinctive feature. Swanepoel's fins were inspired by the natural world – some liken them to the reeds used for fences in traditional Zulu kraals while others compare them to the bark of a tree.
During the day this extraordinary façade casts shadows across the ramp that spirals around the building leading visitors up to the top of the gallery and at night it is lit with a dazzling display of colours.
The gallery describes itself as relatively small in size [and] lofty and ambitious in its intentions and regularly stages contemporary art and sculpture exhibitions by leading South African artists such as Deborah Bell, Wayne Barker and Nelson Makamo.
And Counting exhibition opens at Joburg Art Gallery
Kauru Contemporary African Art is currently presenting AND COUNTING, which is a contemporary visual art exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Through AND COUNTING !Kauru Contemporary Art reflects on South Africa's 25 years of democracy and features the work of a number of artists who each have their unique stories to tell. and counting digs through archives to confront the issue of collective history while also looking at works that exist outside institutional archives and collections.
To tell us more about And Counting, we are joined in studio by curators Tšhegofatso Mabaso and Julia Taonga Kaseka.
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Johannesburg Art Gallery: Gerard Sekoto [1913-1993]
Jan Gerard Sekoto was born on 9 September 1913 in Botshabelo, a mission station established by the German missionaries amongst the Pedi community in the Middelburg district of the Transvaal (now Mpumalanga).
He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of the new Christian converts. Sekoto was schooled at Wonderhoek, which was established by his father, a priest and teacher. In 1930, he attended the Grace Dieu institute. Here he completed his Standard Six (Grade Eight), and went on to study to become a teacher at the Diocesan Training College near Pietersburg. The writer Peter Abrahims and artists and political activists such as Ernest Mancoba, also attended the same school and, like Sekoto, later choose to go into exile.
From 1934 to 1938, Sekoto taught at Khaiso Secondary School near Pietersburg. He became close to Louis Makenna, Nimrod Ndelele and Ernest Mancoba, who had graduated at Fort Hare University. This highly gifted and creative foursome enriched each other’s lives, and the intellectual and artistic life of the school. This is where Sekoto’s interest in art took on another dimension. In 1938, he won second prize in a national art competition organised by Ester Bedford at the University of Fort Hare. This encouraged Sekoto to quit teaching and move to Sophiatown, where in 1939 he began painting full-time. During this time he received encouragement from John Mohl and Brother Roger Castle of St Peter's Secondary School in Rosettenville. Sekoto continued exhibiting his art work regularly. On 13 December 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). In 2004 Sophiatown unveiled the Sekoto mural that depicts Archbishop Trevor Huddleston walking the dusty streets of Sophiatown.
Sekoto passed away on 20 March 1993 at the age of 79, six months before his 80th birthday.
References:
• Davie, L. (2004) ‘Sophiatown unveils Sekoto mural’, 1 November, [online], available at southafrica.info(Accessed: 22 August 2013)
• South African History Online, ‘Jan Gerard Sekoto’, [online], available at sahistory.org.za(Accessed: 22 Aug
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Johannesburg Art Gallery
Here you have the Johannesburg Art Gallery. This national monument is the hotspot for Art lovers visiting the city. The collection of the 17th century Dutch and 18th century French art, and the display of traditional African objects, puts it on par with the world's best
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This year marks the centenary of the Johannesburg Art Gallery
This year marks the centenary of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. To celebrate this landmark a number of exhibitions are on display showcasing the gallery's hundred-year-old collection. CCTV's Yolisa Njamela went to the gallery and brings us this story
Johannesburg Turbine Art Fair
Johannesburg recently welcomed the 6th edition of The Turbine Art Fair. The event offers emerging and established artists a space to showcase their work and allowing buyers to purchase art at affordable prices.
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