Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2017 i House and Leisure

a few weeks back, I found myself alongside writer Jonathan Cane and House and Leisure features editor Kholeka Kumalo viewing one of the largest JH Pierneef collections in existence – it’s owned by property developer and art collector Anton Taljaard. We were soon caught up in a heated discussion about what these artworks’ relevance is today – and why so many white South Africans, in particular, are fond of Pierneef’s work. As in all the best conversations about art, we came to no final conclusions whatsoever, although of course our discussion added an extra dimension to how we experienced this remarkable collection. For me the beauty of these artworks is all wrapped up in Pierneef’s brilliant use of colour. The soft, muted tones he employs – including dirty shades of…

featured artist robin rhode Having been the featured artist at the inaugural FNB JoburgArtFair in 2008, Robin Rhode is once again centre stage at the 2017 edition. Find out more about his art practice and the work he is presenting at this year’s event a decade of the fnb joburgartfair See how the Fair has developed over the past 10 years – and remember some of the special projects, themes and winners guest curator dr zoe whitley The research curator at the Tate Modern in London, Dr Zoe Whitley is guest curator of special projects for the 2017 FNB JoburgArtFair. Here she explains some of the thinking behind her project Truth, or some other abstraction the best of fnb joburgartfair 2017 Plan your visit with this guide to some of…

how did you come to be the guest curator of special projects at the FNB JoburgArtFair 2017? I accepted an invitation from [the Fair’s director] Mandla Sibeko, having been involved in the talks programme for the past few years. I’ve also co-curated a season of South African artists’ films at Tate Modern and led a talk at Venice 2015 for The Johannesburg Pavilion. I contributed an essay on Candice Breitz for the South African Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The idea for this project took shape in Penny Siopis’ studio at Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. We talked about how history amplifies some voices while silencing others. Agreeing to take on this project means acknowledging the sources of what I’ve learnt and recognising just a handful…

One gathers knowledge, intuition and creative spirit as one goes. If I could go back, I definitely would have become a landscape architect, because that’s where my real energetic passion sits,’ says Christine Read about designing and building her home. The Rosebank, Johannesburg, abode that she shares with gallerist husband Mark Read (Everard Read and CIRCA) and their daughters was brought to life after an 18-month build overseen by Christine and architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens. ‘I saw a picture in a magazine a while ago, tore it out and kept it,’ she says. ‘I didn’t want a large property – with two grown children, I wanted something private and self-contained.’ Christine points to the piece of land across Jellicoe Avenue – and what looks like the construction…

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THE HOUSE AND LEISURE READERS' RENOVATION AWARDS  Have you recently completed a renovation that you think belongs in the pages of House and Leisure? Send us your before and after pictures and you could win big prizes in our READERS’ RENOVATION AWARDS. For all the details and to enter, visit houseandleisure.co.za/renovation-awards-2017. Entries close 15 September 2017.  Want a CURATED dose of HOUSE AND LEISURE ONLINE? Sign up at houseandleisure.co.za  to get our WEEKLY newsletter STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX. A DECADE OF CHAMPIONING SOUTH AFRICAN ART To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the annual FNB JoburgArtFair, we interview key curators, directors and artists about the state of local art now. CREATIVE CRUSH At once playful and sinister, sculptor Justine Mahoney’s bronze-cast, handpainted work ‘Mighty Ndebele’ from her solo show…

I salute the young army of African photographers who are busy smashing up the tired ethnographic gaze upon the continent that the world has too long seen. Their output adds an urgent richness to the huge diversity of voices informing Africa’s emergent art scene. Whether challenging accepted notions of belonging and identity, blurring the boundaries between the everyday and the fantastical, or looking to the past to shape a new future, what I find engrossing is the confident, unshackled energy of this work. Self-taught photographer from Ethiopia Girma Berta turns the myriad lives he finds on the streets of Addis Ababa into fine art. His ongoing Moving Shadows series depicts figures juxtaposed against vibrant backgrounds that capture ‘the beautiful, the ugly and all that is in between’. Shooting everything incognito…

at the inaugural FNB JoburgArtFair in 2008, the featured artist was Robin Rhode, the acclaimed multimedia practitioner whose work merges performance, drawing, photography, music and film to blur the lines between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional, the real and the imaginary. To celebrate the Fair’s 10th anniversary, he has again been selected as its featured artist. For Rhode, who has lived in Berlin for the past 15 years, the intervening decade has been defined by continued exposure at international institutions and fairs, such as MoMA in New York and the 56th Venice Biennale, but also by a contemplation of his connection to South Africa. ‘I think that living in the African diaspora for 15 years has allowed me to develop modes of expression that reflect my own questioning of the world…

1. After forming part of our East Africa focus at last year’s Fair, we’re delighted to welcome back Addis Fine Art to the Main section of the Fair, where they will be presenting a selection of contemporary Ethiopian painters. It’s great to see the relationships editions that begin . addisfineart from our curatorial .com foci grow into future 2. Blank Projects will be showing in two spaces: Contemporary Galleries and Solo Presentations. The gallery has been tirelessly promoting their South African artists abroad, participating in The Armory Show (NYC), Frieze New York, Liste (Basel) and Frieze London this year alone. Visit their solo booth by Bronwyn Katz. blankprojects.com 3. ELA – Espaço Luanda Arte returns with a solo presentation of the small and large-scale works of Angolan master António Ole.…

It’s difficult to believe that this family home was once a warren of enclosed, box-like rooms leading off a corridor so dark that you had to keep the lights on during the day. Now, when you walk through the glass front door of the Saxonwold house in Joburg, the first thing that hits you is light. The crisp, white interior is awash with sunshine that pours through a glass wall, which sweeps the facade of the house and opens up the entire lower floor onto a clean-cut, sprawling garden. What was once described by interior designer and Generation founder Julia Day as a series of ‘very disjointed boxes’ is now a singular space that houses a couple, their two sons, and 11 rooms, which are often minimally separated by…

‘THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE BUILDING AND THE PROPORTIONS THAT WERE PART OF A STANDARD VOCABULARY AT THE TIME, WHICH NOW YOU GET ONLY IN EXCEPTIONAL CASES.’ When art historian and Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg Federico Freschi returned to Joburg after a spell in Cape Town, he sought out a , an area . s one suburbs, and has some architecturally interesting houses,’ he says. Even though Federico’s taste leans towards the ‘streamlined modernist’ (his PhD focused on the decorative aspects of South African architecture in the 1930s), he was particularly drawn to this 1920s red-brick house on the ridge, ‘somewhere between Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts’. What he found so compelling about it – apart from…

HIT THE ROAD The fourth annual Visa Street Food Festival kicks off in Cape Town on Saturday 2 September with a night market, and Sunday sees a full day of street fare, live music and free talks. Highlights include chef Wesley Randles of The Shortmarket Club and Andy Fenner of Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants. Jozi gets a turn on Sunday 10 September. streetfoodfestival.co.za BEST IN SHOW What’s even better than an award-winning local Chardonnay? One that’s also a total bargain, of course. Douglas Green Chardonnay 2016 (R54 a bottle) recently received a Top 10 position and gold medal at the annual Chardonnay du Monde competition in France. With tropical pineapple and honey melon aromas, and lemon-lime citrus notes as an aftertaste, we’re not surprised the judges liked it so much.…

SPRING TO ATTENTION With the promise of alfresco living around the corner, invest in a set of Net chairs (R2 700 each, in a selection of colours) and an Alloro 210 table (R12 000), all by Nardi. canetime.com NATURAL APPEAL These Woven planters feature polymer-weave baskets and minimalist powder-coated frames. Available in three sizes (from R1 775 for the short version). douglasand douglas.co.za SLIM SHADY For some quality time on the deck, curl up with a book under an Oasis gazebo in teak (from R272 620) by Roda. Choose between a single or double size, and for extra privacy, add roll-up curtains. marlanteak.com SECURE YOUR SPACE WITH PRACTICAL AND PLEASING POWDER-COATED ALUMINIUM SECURITY SHUTTERS IN SATIN WHITE (FROM R4 250/M2 ). AMERICAN SHUTTERS.CO.ZA PLAY OF LIGHT Get the garden-party vibe…

ZODWA KUMALO Zodwa is brand director at Livity Africa, writes for publications and contributes to The Noonday Tune, a website that encourages people to explore different music genres. She and her sister Zanele are founders of the monthly Joburg music event Sunday143. For this issue, Zodwa wrote about Christine Read’s remarkable Joburg home (page 66). What’s your favourite art form? Sculpture is so evocative that it has moved me to tears on a few occasions. Who are some of your favourite African artists? Johannes Segogela, Sam Nhlengethwa, Portia Zvavahera, Meleko Mokgosi and Athi-Patra Ruga. Dream galleries or museums around the world you’d like to visit? I’d start with The Louvre in Paris, Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, MoMA in New York, White Cube in London and Museum of…

2008  The FNB JoburgArtFair began, with guest curator Simon Njami presenting As You Like It. Galleries: 22 Countries involved: 7 Featured artist: Robin Rhode 2009  Featured artist Jane Alexander presents her 2006 São Paulo Biennale installation Security. Galleries: 22 Countries involved: 7 2010  Special development project exhibited at the FNB JoburgArtFair highlights screening stations for student video and animation artists. Galleries: 23 Countries involved: 8 Featured artist: Siemon Allen 2011  Inaugural edition of the FNB Art Prize is launched. Galleries: 23 Countries involved: 8 FNB Art Prize: Cedric Nunn 2012  Launch of special project France-South Africa Seasons with Institut Français and AICA France. Galleries: 24 Countries involved: 8 Featured artist: Deborah Poynton FNB Art Prize: Kudzanai Chiurai 2013  Celebrating David Goldblatt’s photography career, programming focuses on photography. Galleries: 34 Countries…

LEADING LIGHTS Top Italian lighting manufacturer Artemide recently hosted its showroom relaunch at Bryanston’s Cube Gallery in Joburg – the official importer and distributor of the brand. All 800m2 of the gallery space now present more of the company’s unique design pieces, as well as brand-new Artemide lamps introduced at Milan’s Euroluce. In conjunction with the relaunch, Cube is offering a special promotion (until October 30) on the iconic Tolomeo desk lamp to celebrate the design’s 30th anniversary. artemide.com; cubegallery.co.za WORLDLY WOOL From ponchos to throws and rugs, textile enterprise Ivili Loboya’s Dedani collection offers an array of beautifully versatile items inspired by local traditional prints. The debut range uses Africa’s first indigenous cashmere by Eastern Cape-based wool processors in three design themes: Clan, Earth and New Ethnic. dedanicollection.com DESIGN…

As you make your way from Cape Town’s buzzing CBD up into the leafy vales of Higgovale on the slopes of Table Mountain, a forest canopy of trees helps create a magical ambience, where the sound of the city is dimmed. It’s this restful otherworldliness, just five minutes from the city centre, that encouraged international furniture superstar Jan te Lintelo and his partner Lars Nikolajsen to buy and build here almost 20 years ago. The duo were on their second visit to the Mother City, and the city had drawn them in. ‘From our first visit, we were in love,’ says Lars. ‘We were drawn to the food and restaurants, the feeling of optimism, the weather – and we met great people almost immediately, so we came back. Of…

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WARM BEETROOT AND GOAT’S CHEESE SALAD ½ cup beetroot juice 2T za’atar 1 goat’s cheese crottin 4 red onions, peeled 4-6 beetroots, peeled 3T olive oil A pinch of chilli powder Honey, to serve Preheat the oven to 180°C. Rinse the vine leaves under running water and pat dry. Soak in the beetroot juice for 1 hour. Place the vine leaves on a baking tray and bake for about 10-15 minutes or until dry. Crumble into ash, mix with 1t za’atar and roll the goat’s cheese in the ash. Trim the tops off the onions and score into segments (leave the roots on). Place the onions and the beetroots on a baking tray and toss with olive oil. Sprinkle over 1T za’atar and the chilli powder, and roast for 40…

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I was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. I used to think that I was going to be a lawyer, but while studying law at Babcock University in Nigeria and at the University of Buckingham in England, I discovered that my true love was photography. This led me to Spéos International Photography School in Paris, where I studied photography, and I began working as a fashion photographer five years ago. I got into my field of work through my sisters: I used to take pictures of them when we were much younger. My earliest memory of beautiful art may have been in primary school, when I saw Lemi Ghariokwu’s artwork on Fela Kuti’s album covers. I remember how busy the scene was and that there was a lot to take…