A Word of Art

A word of art on DUST PROJECT.
http://www.dustproject.com/2010/08/a-word-of-art-story/

The six THREE STORIES exhibitions are open for viewing IN THE ART SPACE until 14th August

The T shirt show
One night only
The letter A in the color blue
Paper Girl-SA
Chapter Two:”Friends”
The Bin R250 show

ART SPACE OPENING HOURS:
THUR TO SAT
10H30 TO 16H30

For more see: http:
http://www.a-word-of-art.co.za/exhibitions/

Papergirl Ride Day#1 from Marcii Goose on Vimeo.

Papergirl is an art project which, in the style of american paperboys, distributes rolled art pieces by bicycle to random passers-by in the streets. It consists of an exhibition, the action (distribution of the art) and a party.

The project was founded in Berlin by Aisha Ronniger and has been carried out once a year since 2006. Now Papergirl has spread and also took place in our City, Cape Town, this is a video clip of the first Ride day, 26th June 2010 in Woodstock, Cape Town.

Papergirl is, in short: participatory, analogue, non-commercial and impulsive.

Directed, Filmed & Editied by Robert Nicolls
Music by Tiny Tim, ‘Tip Toe Thru The Tulips’

Jean Michel Basquiat and allot of it!
He is by far my favorite artist of all time and this exhibition was basically the most memorable creative experience I may ever have.
By his death at only age 27 he created over 1000 paintings and 3000 drawings,In this exhibition put together by the Bayeler Foundation they have sourced work from collectors and museums around the world to bring together the biggest Basquiat collection ever.
It was remarkable to see the extent of his career and inspiring to be completely absorbed in his work,he as an artist who had so much energy and this is clear as you can feel it walking through the museum, i couldn’t help but grin all the way through this show.
And then to top it off they had a small collection of Pollacks just around the corner,what a great way to end an amazing week of pure art indulgence.

VOLTA is a great side fair to the main Art Basel,its more younger, dynamic and contemporary galleries showing there selected artists,there we found whatftheworld and Brodie/Stevenson both who had a great stands showing what SA has to offer.
HIGHLIGHT FOR THE DAY:
Meeting Retna ,El Mac and Kofie one from LA. These guys are legends and pioneers,it was such a pleasure to just hang out with them.

This fair is absolutely enormous.
I experienced enough art to last me lifetime.From Warhol to Mondrian from Picasso to Matisse it is all there with traditional fine art dealers alongside modern contemporary gallery’s.It was great to also see the Goodman and Brody Stevenson representing.
I believe art creates energy and by the end of the day walking through hall after hall of art one starts to feel rather emotionally drained and overwhelmed even slightly nauseous.They warned us that this may happen but we were like eager kids going to the funfair for the first time wanting to see everything and eat anything we could get our hands on.
The fair is rather quite a strange environment with all this amassing artwork crammed into such small spaces with the absurdly rich (dressed in there Armani suites,sneakers and dripping diamonds)coming from all over the world simply to spend extreme amounts of money on artwork that will most probably sit in a storeroom collection until one day they feel generous enough to lend it to a museum for a public showing.
This fair really confused me ,but I fulled my pockets with ,more inspiration then most get to see in a lifetime.
Towards the end of the day we thought we couldn’t finish as it was just so tiring,but we pushed through (as if we were walking through mud) to the end only to then find out that we had only seen the one half of the entire fair,we would need to come back another day.

HIGHLIGHTS:

I got to see my first Basquiat painting up close at the Claud Foundations showing of there private Jean Michelle Basquiat and Keith Haring collection.His work is an explosion of energy and to say that it effected me for life is an understatement.

Keith Haring

Egon Schiele

DAY ONE:
SCOPE BASEL / ART FAIR:

HIGHLIGHTS:

KOFIE ONE

THE MAC & RETNA

LIVE PAINTING BY UNKNOWN ARTIST:

The opening night was great fun.With some weird and wonderful artists from Africa participating it was a great pleasure to get to spend some time with them,talking about the situation of art in Africa and celebrating our beautiful continent,people and rich culture.
You can view pics from the exhibition here:
http://www.a-word-of-art.co.za/exhibitions/chapter-twofriends-focus10-art-basel-switzerland/
And watch the video here: