EISH, THE WAY MY FRIENDS ROCK

When was the last time your friend was featured in Vogue? Lol, I'm such a bitch. Ok, all bitchy jokes aside, Thandiswa Mazwai, the purest voice this side of the hemisphere is in the latest L'uomo Vogue as well as Vogue Italia's website.  Because she's worth it.  Check it out here

Not to take the spotlight away from Kudzi, she is performing this Saturday at The Lyric Theatre with Bra Hugh Masekela and earlier in the evening with the Blk Jks and Joao Orrecia as part of artist Kudzanai Chiurai's latest exhibition Left Behind - the unofficial Jozi leg of Kudzi's exhibition, which actually launches in Kassel, Germany on the same night as part of the Documenta (13) Show.  

The exhibition will explore the issue of conflict and conflict resolution in contemporary Africa and will be in mixed media formats.  Let me see if I've got this right, one will be a video instillation of last year's performance by this quartet and a new video instillation of art accompanied by music designed for the video by Thandiswa, Joao and the Blk Jks.  

This will happen at Juta Street, Braamfontein. ROOM (a gallery) will exhibit photographs of the installation at Documenta 13 (the ones that the people in Germany will see on the same night) and  Co-Op, yet another gallery at 70 Juta Street, will exhibit a new edition of the Conflict Resolution posters.  If I'm wrong, just show up on Juta Street and follow the funk. I'm happy to see the appearance of the word Poster because I mean like, most of the people that attend Kudzi's exhibitions can't afford the R99 999 that his works cost.  So we will be happy to buy some posters.  This sounds like a really fun way to spend a Saturday night in my beloved Jozi. Don't miss out if you're here.  

Event deets: Saturday 9 June 2012 

Time 17:30 for 18:00 

Performance starts at 18:30

MEANWHILE: IGOLIDE

Sheeeeeeeeet. Just click play on this 25 second video. Just do it. Caaam onnnnnn. Jus klik. 

My other cool maaties, Jana + Koos are also having an exhibition at ROOM on the14th of June at eighteen hundred hours.  It's a collaborative exhibition with PRINS (said in an Afrikaans accent).  I don't know what it's about but it looks like it looks faaaaken lekker.  Unfortunately, I won't be at the launch event but I'll see it the day I come back from my galavanting on the 16th of June, which is a public holiday.  

BANKSY

Chris Auret

http://shownd.com/chrisauret

INK + WATER

It's hard to believe that these are photographs of what happens when ink meets water.  How amazing?  All I know about the artist is that he is Italian and his name is Alberto Sevesto. You can download these images and make wallpapers from them. 

PHILIP KWAME APAGYA

The first picture took me to the rest.  It's a Phillip Kwame Apagya photograph.  And as it happens, I've been listening to a lot of A Tribe Called Quest these days.  

Paper Series at Southern Guild

I really enjoyed these exhibits.

CRY ME A PALETTE

Nina Nolte

You know when you have no words? She is a truly talented German painter named Nina Nolte. Visit her website, or Germany, to see more of these beautiful poolside paintings in a series titled The Best is Yet to Come.