The Distance Within by Nicola Brandt
DAILY MAVERICK,
April 2025
"In The Distance Within, Nicola Brandt travelled the country extensively, documenting landscapes and people, structures and encounters, to reveal ensnared histories of German colonialism, National Socialism and apartheid. Markers of these histories range from the ephemeral and private, such as a dilapidated mound of stones as a roadside memorial, to official sites of remembrance and resistance, particularly for colonial atrocities.".
The Black Unicorn Connecting with Artists’ Voices and Stories
Larry's List ,
January 2025
Featuring deaf Zimbabwean artist Raymond Fuyana. "Chris Lyons’ art collection features black artists worldwide with artworks in both abstract and figurative styles. It includes pieces from established artists like Stanley Whitney, Nina Chanel Abney, Derrick Adams, and Vaughn Spann..."
Between trauma and provocation: Zama Mwandla
Augsburger Allgemeine,
April 2024
"Who knows how women feel in South Africa? Anyone who sees the pictures of Zama Cebsile Mwandla will get an idea of this. She responds artistically to the male forms of violence that women in South Africa often have to suffer from. Her position: decisive, radical, angry. The female-animal encounters have something aggressive, are also sexually charged, give an idea of the experienced pain."
What Time Hides Forever in Plain Sight: The Timeliness of Adrian Fortuin
ARTHROB,
February 2024
"Fortuin’s abundance of guest features and painterly samples confirms Gilles Deleuze’s proposition that “Every Painter Recapulates the History of Painting in His or Her Own Way”...But it is what he does with this cast of inspirations, that is interesting. For one, he approaches his source material with an awareness of and curiosity about his positioning."
The Investec Art Fair is Gaining Momentum
Le Quotindien,
February 2024
“On his stand, several paintings with bright colours of the young South African painter Adrian Fortuin (between 500 and 3,000 euros) found a buyer from European collectors. With 30,000 visitors, 70% of whom are locals and 30% international, the fair is breaking records this year and following the curve of its expansion..."
Plantation Inheritances: Zenaéca Singh in ‘US’
ARTHROB,
July 2023
"The artist’s detailed paintings, achieved through molasses, utilise another painstaking method, one that evinces Singh’s dedication to thinking through and with her material. This careful exploration inadvertently links to the sugar plantation and its history of slave labour."