DREAM: Joburg 2011
DREAM: Joburg 2011 is an initiative adopted by Dion Chang (Flux) as the South African version of The Dreamers Project, one which aims to send out a message of unity amongst artists, using different art forms and visiting countries around the world. This one is a photography project, based in Johannesburg, taking place this Saturday...
I MISSY YOU – Exclusive interview with Los Angeles-based illustrator Missy McCullough
Digital creatives are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with. one small seed has managed to travel to the far ends of the earth to bring you an exclusive interview with an illustrator by the name of Missy McCullough. The Los Angeles native currently lives in her downtown loft, accompanied by both her...
BOOM+27 – Episode 02
For our second episode of Boom+27 we check out Toffie Pop Culture Festival, the 12th annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival, Desmond and the Tutus performing at Assembly and the latest exhibition at the Woodstock gallery Museum.
Contemporary South African Art in Brazil
The work of top South African artists like William Kentridge, Roger Ballen and Mary Sibande is currently showing in Brazil, as part of an exhibition of contemporary South African art at The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, or MAC).
Unity Gallery & the Joburg Art Scene
In issue 22 of one small seed, The Joburg Issue, the notorious DJ Chubbi from YFM takes us on a Jozi street tour through all his favourite stops in the art, music, fashion and nightlife scenes. One of the art stops is Unity Gallery in Newtown, and Chubbi stops to chat to the owner, Andrew...
ARYAN KAGANOF. THE SOLIPSIST.
It doesn’t seem fair that one man is able to express himself successfully through almost every medium possible. So is the skill of our very own Aryan Kaganof. Responisble for the controversial documentary, ‘The Uprising in Hangberg’ that screened at the Labia, Kaganof now also has a film festival under his belt. Let’s here...
GOOGLE IS WATCHING
When allowing everything in the free world to be photographed at random you are bound to come across some creepy, compromising snaps highlighting human imperfection… although I’m sure Google Street View’s primary mandate didn’t exactly intend to create a montage of prostitutes that would able you to compare the attire, modes of seduction and preferred client of...
French street artist JR receives TED Prize for 2011
On the 20 October 2010 Parisian street artist – known only by his initials JR – was awarded the prestigious annual TED Prize. Past winners include mainstream icons like Jamie Oliver, Bill Clinton and Bono, and like those before him, 2011’s seemingly unconventional winner received $100 000, and on a much – metaphorically speaking –...
THE ART OF BRIAN M. VIVEROS
Tortured and battered faces; rose tattoos and cigarettes dangling loosely from lips, these are the lasses of American artist, Brian M. Viveros. His works explore the murkier realms and his dark, mysterious women – reminiscent of Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s Tank Girl –which have become his trademark. They gaze laconically beyond the viewer, their...
HYPERREALISTIC SCULPTURES
Photorealistic sculptures are those which show life and nature as it really is. Artists who achieve such highly detailed works are known as hyperrealists. Six such artists are Ron Mueck, Evan Penny, Jamie Salmon, Duane Hanson, Sam Jinks and Adam Beane.
AJ FOSIK: IN THE TEETH OF STUPEFYING ODDS
Sarah Jayne Fell talks to AJ Fosik about God, acid trips and impending doom, as well as his latest body of work, which fits somewhere roughly in between.
JACOB DAHLGREN: CONCEPTUAL ART
Jacob Dahlgren is a painter, sculptor and conceptual artist who mostly works with what everyday life has to offer and unconventional materials. Jacob finds abstraction in everything he sees, and employs the objects to create dynamic interactive installations and performances. When put together in his artworks, the individual objects lose their designated function, their original...
The Plasticity of Pretty
The surreal characters that inhabit Brian Walker’s creations would be right at home in a dark fantasy-comedy film, like Death Becomes Her meets The Addams Family, but with a better makeover. Looking to peel away the façade, Sarah Jayne Fell hunts down the Australian digital artist to uncover whether there are any meaty hidden layers...
