To all our valued artists, clients, associates and followers, In accordance with the national lockdown order, David Krut Projects, Galleries, Bookstores, and Workshop will be closed to the public from today, Friday, 27 March 2020, until further notice. We would like to extend our love and strength to you all during this precarious time. As we […]
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Prints of the Month | March 2020 | William Kentridge | Unpacking woodcuts on chine collé | ‘God’s Opinion is Unknown’ and ‘Leaning on Air’
The David Krut Workshop Print of the month for March 2020 at Arts on Main is William Kentridge’s | Woodcuts 2019 | God’s Opinion is Unknown & Leaning on Air […]
David Krut Podcast |Internal Probes with Pebofatso Mokoena
In this podcast episode, artist Pebofatso Mokoena and David Krut Podcast host Britt Lawton are in conversation about Mokoena’s first solo exhibition at the David Krut Gallery in Johannesburg titled ‘Internal Probes’ (27 February – 4 April 2020). Listening Time | 18 min […]
David Krut Projects is a proud supporter of the Creative Skills Factory
David Krut has been a funder and supporter of Creative Skills Factory since 2002. Creative Skills Factory is a small NPO in the Overberg region of South Africa working in Stanford and Masakhane (Gansbaai). The Creative Works project was founded in 2012 by Regina Broenner, a German qualified Occupational Therapist registered in South Africa, who offers after school workshops in the local community with the support of David Krut Projects and local community mothers. […]
Artworks to talk about… on show in the Talks Room at THE BLUE HOUSE
THE BLUE HOUSE is scattered with art of all subjects, mediums, shapes and sizes. Every artwork tells a story of course, a story about David Krut, a past collaboration or project, or the artists very own origins. In the talks room – a space that is used for knowledge talks or lectures by creative experts […]
Print of the Month | December 2019 | Zhi Zulu
It is well known that Zebras have stripes to confuse their predators. Zhi Zulu’s pink Zebra in her work Zebra Crossing, 2019 however, seems to have been confused by it’s own tactics having taken the city’s notion of a Zebra crossing a bit too literally and winding up perplexed by it’s inner city surroundings, munching […]
Prints of the Month | November 2019 | Endale Desalegn
by Hagen Gersie There is no logo for capitalism. While communism is easily recognised by the infamous hammer and sickle, there is no one symbol standing in for capitalism. It easily could be a single-use plastic fork, though, if you think about it. Plastic cutlery is one of the top polluters of our oceans and […]
William Kentridge | Thought in Full Flight
In this podcast episode, we focus on the presence of birds in the work of William Kentridge. Here we present to you a collection of thoughts and writings about birds and the making of them, taken from publications on the artist’s work. Listening Time | 16 Minutes Extracts taken from: 1. Interview with Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, […]
William Kentridge & Rhinos
In this episode, we focus on the presence of rhinos in the work of William Kentridge. Here we present to you two related extracts about rhinos and the making of them, taken from publications on the artist’s work. Both of these extracts focus on work made around the time of William Kentridge’s production of Mozart’s […]
David Krut Podcast | William Kentridge | The Thought Forest
Listening time | 20 minutesProduced and edited by Hagen Gersie, research and curation of text by Jacqueline Flint & hosted by Britt Lawton In this episode of the David Krut Podcast we are going to step outside and wander into the forest. A forest that is, populated with trees drawn and printed by William Kentridge. […]
Print of the Month | October 2019 | William Kentridge
Text by Hagen Gersie In the German language there is a saying that, roughly translated, says: to dance on someone’s nose. It means that a person is doing whatever they want, disobeying any tasks and orders. In that spirit, the Print of the Month in October is Nose 15 by William Kentridge, a figure dressed […]
Little Impressions – Play Africa Kids Workshop Sept 2019
Play Africa and the David Krut Workshop recently collaborated for a day of introducing children to printmaking. The morning was spent with a group of children aged 6-8 years old who came from Sigiya Sonke Dance Group in Alexandra. For the afternoon session, public from the inner city and beyond were invited to participate. They […]
Sthenjwa Luthuli – ‘Future Mirror’, 2019
Future Mirror, 2019 is the exquisite product of Luthuli’s recent collaboration with the David Krut Workshop for LATITUDES Limited. LATITUDES Limited is a special limited edition set of fine art silkscreen prints made by 5 artists in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop, and Master Printer Jillian Ross and Printer Roxy Kaczmarek for the Latitudes […]
“What does Art do?” – written by Hagen Gersie
“Art is tricky. Because, what does it do exactly? How does it ‘work’? Why are we generally fascinated by art but not, subsequently, by every single piece of art out there? Ever since I joined David Krut Projects some weeks ago as an intern I was asking myself these and other questions. I have a […]
Creative Skills Factory | Blog Updates
Blog Post: Play With Colours, September 30, 2019 It was all about color this week. The children worked on big sheets of paper, with food and watercolor as well as oil pastels. New nuances where mixed right onto the paper and the colors came to live. The process was exciting and aimed at giving space […]
The artist with a deep appreciation for art- Mr Avhashoni Mainganye
At a recent SA Cultural Observatory workshop in the Vhembe district in Sibasa, Limpopo, we came across the definition of an artist- Mr Avhashoni Mainganye. Currently based at the Vhembe Arts and Culture centre in Thohoyandou, the unassuming Mainganye is an accomplished painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, arts teacher and mentor with more than 30 years’ […]
William Kentridge 27 Years of collaboration feature ‘West Coast Series: Skurfberg’, 2010
These works relate to drawings that Kentridge made as labels for rare wines made by the Sadie family from vines, planted in around 1900 on the Cape West Coast of South Africa. The collection is called the Ouwingerdreeks (Old Vine Series). During the tour of the vineyards the artist learned some viticultural skills – principles […]
William Kentridge ’27 Years of collaboration’ feature: Universal Archive (Peonies), 2012
This work also forms part of the Universal Archive series of linocuts. The traditional still life image of flowers in a vase reverberates throughout Western art history, from the Impressionists to the present. This image recalls most specifically the 1882 painting by Edouard Manet of flowers in an oblong crystal vase. Flower-centric still life images function in […]