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2012 FNB Art Prize winner: Kudzanai Chiurai13 August 2012

The winner of the second FNB Art Prize is Zimbabwean artist, Kudzanai Chiurai.
Born in 1981 in Zimbabwe, Kudzanai Chiurai is an internationally acclaimed young artist now living and working in South Africa. Boldly stenciled figures and anonymous text provide running commentary, leading viewers on a journey through his intricately painted turn-of-the century buildings, bustling streets and congested transit systems.

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VANSA presented by Gauteng Provincial Government22 July 2012

The Visual Arts Network is present in a number of ways at this year’s FNB Joburg Art Fair with projects that constellate around the concept of mapping, an idea that animates much of VANSA’s work. These interventions include:
• the launching of a new website the SA Art MAP,
• a mapping intervention in the Art Fair space related to the spatial and economic dimensions of creativity and culture in the Gauteng City Region,
• a take-away guide to the contemporary art scene in Gauteng,

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Market Photo Workshop presented by Arts Alive22 July 2012

For over twenty years, the Market Photo Workshop has played a pivotal role in the training of South Africa’s photographers, ensuring that visual literacy reaches neglected and marginalized 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. The Photo Workshop offers courses in photography

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FNB Joburg Art Fair 2012 Featured Artist: Deborah Poynton in association with Stevenson15 July 2012

Arcadia 2 055K0622A GG Diptych, panels 2 of 11. 2010. Oil on canvas. 300x200cm each

FNB Joburg Art Fair in association with STEVENSON is pleased to present an installation of paintings by Deborah Poynton entitled Arcadia.
The installation comprises 11 paintings hung together tightly in a single room and creates the sense of standing in a decayed concrete folly at twilight and looking out through the pillars into a liminal, overgrown landscape that surrounds the viewer on all sides.

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Pirelli Projects: Pieter Hugo15 July 2012

Katharina Shaw, Sandrift Inkjet Print Paper size, 87 x 112cm Image size, 76.5 x 102cm

Pirelli has been an innovative Special Project partner of the FNB Joburg Art Fair for the past three years. This year, Pirelli presents a new body of work by South African artist, Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo has been commissioned by Pirelli to produce a series of artworks exploring of the notion of natural beauty.

John Berger writes: “To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.”

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Bridget Baker Only Half Taken15 July 2012

Only Half Taken (colour film still) 1959 / 2011 – 2012 16mm colour and b&w expanded film installation size variable no audio original media: colour 8mm found family film, b&w 8mm film

As part of our 2012 focus on film and video art at the FNB Joburg Fair, Arts Alive have generously supported the installation of Bridget Baker's film Only Half Taken at this years fair. Bridget Baker has realised the project in collaboration with curator Amy Watson.

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Goethe InstituteCara Snyman10 July 2012

über(W)unden - art in troubled times, edited by Sean O'Toole and Lien Heidenreich-Seleme will be launched during the Art Fair.

The Goethe-Institut is dedicated to furthering critical discourse, as well as broadening and deepening artistic cooperation and global networks. It has brought significant international voices to Joburg Art Fair since 2008. This year, the Goethe-Institut is proud to present a preview of the Picha Encounters Lubumbashi Biennale 2012, with the curator Elvira Dyangani Ose of Tate Modern participating, as well as highlights from the Fringe – an experimental platform running concurrently with the art fair in Johannesburg. Furthermore, the publication über(W)unden: Art in Troubled times will be launched in partnership with Jacana Media.

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Next FNB Joburg Art Fair

27 - 29 September 2013

Sandton Convention Centre