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12/3/2008

Joburg Art Fair

Sandton Convention Center, Johannesburg

The First Joburg Art Fair takes place in the heart of the Sandton Central Management District (SCMD). 22 Major galleries are selling work in a traditional art fair set up covering 5000 square meters of the Sandton Convention Center. Special Projects for 2008: FUNDA Community College, Tonic design and artist Robin Rhode. Extending the representation of African contemporary artists at the art fair is As You Like It, a curated show by Simon Njami. A Talks program will focus on collecting African contemporary art and the place of the art fair in the city. The Art Fair and the Talks form part of Artlogic's Joburg Art Week.

On sale will be the largest collection of African and South African contemporary art ever, covering 5000 square metres of gallery space.

“The Joburg Art Fair will establish South Africa as an essential stopover on the global contemporary art buying calendar,” says Ross Douglas, director of Artlogic, the company behind the fair.

There are 22 galleries in the fair, from New York, London, Germany, the UK and obviously Africa. Contemporary African art showcased at the Joburg Art Fair will range from R 1000 to R 5-million.

The Joburg Art Fair will include a specially curated show entitled ‘As you like it’ by Simon Njami, chief curator of the highly successful Africa Remix exhibition, as well as the Africa pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. Njami will be choosing works by artists from across Africa who will not be represented by galleries at the fair, and all these will be on sale. Douglas says Njami’s participation is a stamp of approval on the continent’s first art fair and will set the tone for what will be an annual event.

International contemporary art galleries confirmed for the 2008 Joburg Art Fair include the Perry Rubenstein Gallery and the Jack Shainman Gallery from New York, Galerie Peter Hermann from Berlin, Galerie Ames d’Afrique from Strasbourg, The Townhouse Gallery and L’Appartement 22, Rabat from Morocco and the October Gallery from London.
The galleries have been specially invited to participate so buyers can expect an unparalleled selection to choose from. Galleries will have works on sale from many of the big names, including Zwelethu Mthethwa, William Kentridge, Guy Tillim, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo and Moshekwa Langa.
Artlogic was also responsible for bringing William Kentridge’s critically acclaimed Magic Flute production to South Africa.

The Art Week brings together an unprecedented line-up of visual arts in the city. Artlogic has invited the top art events in the country to participate. The Joburg Art Fair sponsored by FNB, runs from the private function on the Thursday night to the Sunday afternoon. Standard Bank’s highly acclaimed Marlene Dumas Retrospective is on for the duration of the week at the Standard Bank Gallery. William Kentridge’s 9 Films for Projection, produced by Artlogic, will have its final South African showing at the Linder Auditorium on Friday night. Artlogic has teamed up with the Premises Gallery to produce the week’s ‘Art Party’ on Saturday night in the inner-city. Spier Contemporary opens its doors to the Johannesburg public on Saturday night at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Also included in Artlogic’s Joburg Art Week is a Talks programme held at the newly refurbished Alexander Theatre in Johannesburg’s inner-city area. The Joburg Art Fair Talks aims to create a forum for the discussion of African contemporary art by significant individuals in the field. The talks will function as a series of lectures that will discuss major debates, issues and themes of the contemporary African art market, including, collecting African contemporary art and the impact of art fairs on cities.
Artlogic expects the Art Week to grow into the country’s eminent cultural week.

All the information on Curated show
http://www.joburgartfair.co.za/press/JAF_Curated_show.pdf

Further info:
Ross Douglas, Director Artlogic.
Cobi Labuscagne, Director Artlogic
011 482 4459 / 083 555 0621 / 082 654 6664 ross@artlogic.co.za or press@joburgartfair.co.za
Sandton Convention Center
41A Frost Street, Milpark, Johannesburg, South Africa

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