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ROOKE GALLERY
THE UNSEEN WORKS
A RARE COLLECTION OF UNSEEN WORKS BY TWO RESPECTIVE ICONIC ARTISTS
17 SEPTEMBER – 1 DECEMBER 2009 6:30PM RSVP ONLY

The ROOKE gallery is proud to present a glimpse into the formative worlds of two respective iconic artists. The show will be open to the public from 17 September to December 2009 with a preview on 16 September by invitation-only.

MARK KANNEMEYER : THE BERLIN PAINTINGS
Whilst Mark was completing his Meisterschüler (Cum Laude) in Berlin (1986-1992) he produced a number of large-scale paintings. The works returned to South Africa upon Mark’s return from exile in 1996 and have been stored ever since. He has refused to paint any new works. Whilst Mark is renowned for his acclaimed illustration under the name of Lorcan White and his role in the legendary Bitterkomix series, his paintings have largely remained a secret. Rooke Gallery acquired the full collection of paintings and requested Mark’s permission to exhibit the works along with twelve unseen illustrations completed by Mark over the same period in Berlin.

ROGER BALLEN’S UNSEEN AND VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS
Roger Ballen will present a collection of his vintage photographs that stretch back to the early 1970’s. This exclusive collection provides a rare glimpse into Roger’s world that to date has remained hidden. It further provides context to to the trajectory of Ballen’s career over the last 30 years.

TO RSVP FOR THE ROOKE GALLERY GO HERE.

MISS BEAUTIFUL
DAYONE PUBLICATIONS

Miss Beautiful documents the crowning of thirty-two beauty competition winners with nothing in common but the desire to become Somebody. Photographer Stan Engelbrecht and writer Tamsen de Beer spent two years photographing and interviewing South Africans in Casual, Evening and Swimwear – Queens, Princesses and a range of pretty Misters from Soweto to Springbok, Margate Beach to Mankweng. Miss Beautiful reveals the quirky ‘inner beauty’ of South African identity, using the beauty competition as a lens through which to better understand South Africa and its people. Miss Beautiful is a 296-page custom-bound hard-cover book with over 200 full-colour photographs, feature-length narratives and a foreword by former Miss South Africa Basetsana Kumalo. For more info go HERE

VICE MAGAZINE (SOUTH AFRICA)
CALLING ALL CONTRIBUTORS

As many of you may already know, VICE Magazine is up and running in South Africa. What is VICE? Well, it’s a little difficult to describe exactly… but if you throw adjectives like youth-oriented, underground, irreverent, scathing, insightful, anti-pop, counter-culture, bizarre and blitzkrieg into a sex-drugs-and-rock-n-roll blender, the resultant puree can be distilled through Japanese schoolgirl panties to reveal its amber-tinted essence. We need content. Lots and lots of glorious content: Photo essays, stories, interviews, illustrations, short films, fashion shoots, hard core investigative journalism, comics, tawdry memoirs, thoughts on life, exposés, documentaries, random pictures of weird shit – that kind of stuff. We need it all the time, and we’re pretty open-minded. Just like you. As a franchise publication of a larger entity we have a mandate to generate as much local content as possible. If stories/shoots are selected for publication, they’ll also end up on the Viceland website (with 10 million+ members, boast boast) and potentially be published in any of the 22 international editions.

If you have any queries, please get in touch. It’d be cool to meet up and discuss ideas wherever possible, so if you’re in Cape Town swing by our office in Woodstock for some coffee and tik. Those in Joburg get in touch with Henk Lustig for guidance and general moral support (henk@viceland.za.com). Whatever you do, spread the word and keep it coming!

For more info on the magazine go HERE

Warp20 (New York)
September 3-6 2009

FOR THE NEW WEBSITE GO HERE

OPENTHECITY

Open the City is a free pocket sized city guide, displaying current programme and directory information on the art, culture and design scene in South Africa.The guide is published quarterly with the aim of providing a consistent source of inspiration for each featured city. Programme and directory listing is gratis. Open the City #3 is up for download HERE

WHATIFTHEWORLD
ATHI-PATRA RUGA
...MR FLOATING SIGNIFIER AND THE DEADBOYZ.
05 - 29 AUGUST 2009

Born in Umtata, South Africa (1984), Athi-Patra Ruga is a hastily-ascending young artist whose work straddles the divides between fashion, performance and photography. Ruga describes his working method as resulting from ‘the clash between material and memory’, but notions of utopia and dystopia also form a common thread. Recent exhibitions include ‘Beauty and Pleasure in Contemporary South African Art” at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway as well as the Guangzhou Trienalle in China (2008) and ‘Pret-a-Pratager’ at the IFA Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany.

AVA Gallery
OTHER WORKS OTHER
Barend de Wet and Christian Nerf
Experiments from their Authorised project 2003-2013

For more info go HERE