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Meet Jean Rene Onyangunga, a jester on the streets and a kinetic spectacle of colour and sound. He breaks into your world, primary coloured and fucking loud. Gallant and off the wall, he was born in Kinshasa and yeah, you can take the kid of the jungle but can’t take the jungle out of the kid. It’s hard to catch him as he hop-scotches along through life, hollering fully charged boom-box dialogues. But if you can by some chance catch him, please tell him to answer his fucking phone!
Heath Nash creates beautiful objects out of simple materials. He’s a creative with a practical bent, an ideas man who is also good with his hands. His designs are complex, colourful, joyful celebrations of what it means to be South African. Heath draws from local craft materials (paper, plastic, wire) and traditional crafting techniques (binding, weaving) – but steers clear of knit-your-own-muesli, rustic kitsch. Instead his pieces are beautiful, sophisticated feats of design and form. His Die Cuts pleated lampshade, for instance, is deceptively simple – origami at its most accessible – while Strength in Numbers’ modular structures are about forming stronger and more functional wholes by binding wire together.
Aryan Kaganof is incendiary. www.kaganof.com www.kaganof.com/kagablog/ His films, poetry and novels are exquisite, candid and shocking….It would be Journo-transgression to turn this interview into anything else but what it is now. My questions, His answers. Crude and honest. I’m a big fan of honesty, and so is Aryan, I found out. Here’s a snippet of my interview with this extraordinary individual whose name is not even Aryan. A friend, an inspiration, a bit of a mystery. Check it yo
Modernism. Post modernism. What does it all really mean? It’s a label that gives us security through categorization, a safe, definable understand of the world of art. But, the artists in JHB are fervently destroying the Ism. And it’s an infectious destruction, indeed. It’s about liberation and aesthetic exploration.
Three can be a tricky number in a relationship. And when you’re looking at three creative, passionate people, it can sound a lot like the countdown to an explosion. But for Avant Car Guard, the Awesome Threesome from Johannesburg, it’s been as easy as one, two… Avant Car Guard is a conceptual art collective made up of three talented artists in their own rights: Zander Blom, Michael McGarry and Jan-Henri Booyens. They produce large-scale paintings, sculptures, editioned prints, video and installation, and are on a mission to “undermine and interrogate the mechanics that drive the art world.”
People. Pesoas. Gente. Omano. You and I. The world at large. A noun, or a verb. Musso’s, artists, black stiletto’d divas, border-skippers, downtown vandals, the corporate elite and the gold diggers…JHB, the city of gold, shines bright with her eclectic and talented kaleidoscope of individuals.Not often do you meet a person who emits an energy that continues to resonate through you. Well Spoek Mathambo is that guy. |
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