NEWS
RADICALLY ASTONISHING, AND ASTONISHINGLY STILL RADICAL
The other day, I visited auction house Strauss & Co to look at a watercolour monotype of an unpeopled landscape in the Kruger National Park by Durant Sihlali. The company plans to sell later in this month. “Unnnnggggghhhheeeee!” I mouthed like a dumfounded character from a Tom Wolfe novel. A work by Sihlali, especially one of his urban watercolours or later monotypes, has the capacity to do that, render one inarticulate, capable only of comic-book outpourings of surprise and delight.
YOUNG AND VITAL ARTISTS: KAGISO GUNDANE
Raised by a family of traditional healers and blessed with a spiritual gift himself, it is no surprise that much of the BA fine arts honours graduate’s work centres on the divine. His work — which includes printmaking, drawing, installations, and sculpting — draws on his connection to diviners: those, like himself, with the ability to occupy liminal spaces. He believes that “spirituality is a journey of pain and suffering that leads to the full potential of the self”. His solo exhibition “Ingoma Yomhlaba” just opened at Gallery Momo.