Favourite Art Form(e)s from Cape Town Art Fair
Art form(e)s that moved us from this year’s Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF): Ledelle Moe, Frances van Hasselt, Bronwyn Katz & Gabrielle Kruger…
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Art form(e)s that moved us from this year’s Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF): Ledelle Moe, Frances van Hasselt, Bronwyn Katz & Gabrielle Kruger…
These porcelain pieces were carried down to the motionless Antarctic seabed, where they remain. And we can imagine that eventually they will disintegrate, and that new forams will find them and glue them into new shells, and that the porcelain-making circle will complete itself.
Over the last 50 years, Jack Ginsberg has collected artists’ books of every kind. His collection comprises of artists’ books themselves, books about artists’ books; books made of glass, metal, cork, wood and bone. Some pop up while others invert.
Clay. The likes of Wilde, Blake, Byron and even Bukowski, mention the stuff – for both its biblical and carnal implications.
Surviving a collision of ‘text’ and ‘object’ identities – somehow existing as neither and both – art books are interesting because we don’t quite know what they are.
© Art Formes 2021