ARTicle - week 22 - vgallery.co.za

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8 July 1999 By Andries Loots

This week we bring you our most exciting images from Grahamstown. We have kept the text to the minimum and have also only focused on some of the visual arts.
	A fine selection from over 2000 works from 1935-92 by one of the fathers of Black Art in S.A., Gerard Sekoto, recently returned from France and displayed here for the first time in the Observatory Museum.


A selection from over 3600 rare Treasures from the Standard Bank African Art collection reflecting a broad spectrum of art from sculpture to beadwork in the Monument Gallery.


98 Annual World Press Photo Exhibition, haunting , award winning images from over the world - in the Monument.	An employee at Barcelona's new Museum of Fake Art busy hanging the ' Mona Lisa'

William Kentridge Installation : 'Echo scan slide bottle' Three new animation movies in the monument

William Kentridge " The Return of Ulysses, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse " William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company presented this multimedia opera featuring William's animation's, European singers, South African actors and a feast of music based on Claudio Monteverdi's.


		Emergence an Exhibition covering the last 25 years of art making in South Africa and the various influences on this process. See digital version website



Goldsmithing Today Unusual Jewelry by various artists, Monument

Various other interesting exhibitions include ceramics, sculpture by Maureen Quin and miniatures by the Miniature Art Society of South Africa.