Introducing the Collector’s Room The Blue House, 151 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood Are you looking to start or grow your art collection? The Collector’s Room is the go to place for art collectors to begin or grow their private or corporate collections. This new addition features a selection of prints from established and emerging African […]
Artist Series E27: João Orecchia: Instruction – Scores, Collaboration and Printmaking
Elize De Beer had an opportunity to chat to João Orecchia at our Arts on Main Workshop about his music and artistic practice ahead of his upcoming exhibition Instruction, opening 14 May 2019 – 142A Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. João Orecchia is a Johannesburg based artist, composer and maker of physical and virtual “things” that […]
Community Series E04: Ralf Seippel in conversation with David Krut
This episode is taken from a conversation between Ralf Seippel and David Krut during Ralfs annual visit to Johannesburg. It took place in January 2019 at David Krut Projects THE BLUE HOUSE at 151 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. The conversation reflects on Ralf’s relationship with South Africa, arts education and the overall experience and development […]
Print Workshop – A Week in Pictures, 5 April 2019
William Kentridge was in the workshop this week to add to the second part of the large-scale woodcut Leaning on Air. He has been tearing and pinning pieces onto the print to indicate carving and where to place torn collage pieces. The team is now busy tracing these indicated areas, carving and proofing them. Jillian […]
Print/s of the Month | April/May 2019 | Deborah Bell | “Now that the living outnumber the Dead”, 2005. State Proof.
Now that the Living Outnumber the Dead was made in 2005 and is part of Deborah Bell’s on going collaboration with the David Krut Workshop. The work falls into a continuing series that are based on sketches from her notebooks. The sketches are created on her numerous visits to museums both local and abroad. The […]
Artist Series E26 : Urban Chemistry: Creative Place-making in Johannesburg
URBAN CHEMISTRY : CREATIVE PLACE-MAKING IN JOHANNESBURG Featuring The Johannesburg Development Agency’s Art My Jozi Project artists: Zivanai Matangi, Thusi Vukani, Senzo Bongwana, Sparks Napoli, Mantala Nkoatse and Stephen Hobbs. The Johannesburg Development Agency’s Art My Jozi Project implements functional public art enhancements and facilities in strategic public places in key nodes along the City’s […]
Print Workshop – A week in pictures 29 March 2019
We had artist William Kentridge come in to work on his latest collaboration with the workshop: Leaning on Air, the 5th and 6th large-scale woodcut in the Triumphs and Laments Woodcuts series. Read more about the current project here: Artist João Renato Orecchia Zuniga has been in this week working on an upcoming body of prints. Orecchia was featured at the Print […]
THE PRINT CLUB – DKP in collaboration with Mesh Club at the Keyes Art Mile
Be the first to see artworks hot off the printing press. Meet Artists & Printmakers in person. Learn or ask questions about concept development and processes. Seek expert advice on growing your art collection. Purchase new and exclusive fine art prints. FOR ITS FIRST EDITION, ON TUES 19 FEB 2019, THE PRINT CLUB FEATURED A […]
Kentridge Studio Technical Director Chris Waldo de Wet and DKW Master printer Jillian Ross in conversation
On Tuesday evening, 12 March, the David Krut Workshop invited Chris-Waldo de Wet, the technical director of William Kentridge’s sculpture studio, to come in to talk about the behind-the-scenes process of how Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments frieze came to be along the side of the Tiber River in Rome. Armed with photographs, videos, maquettes and more, Chris […]
William Kentridge | Triumphs and Laments Woodcuts continues
Work on the fifth and largest work in the Triumphs and Laments Woodcut series titled: Leaning on Air has begun. In early 2016, William Kentridge was at work on a monumental frieze to be installed along the banks of Rome’s Tiber River in April of the same year. The 550 meter work, stencilled onto the […]
Kids Print Workshop – William Kentridge, That which I do not remember, woodcut
On Saturday 2 march 2019 in the David Krut Projects Gallery beneath the showcase of a giant William Kentridge woodcut print, titled That which I do not remember, the David Krut Workshop hosted an exciting workshop for kids. The workshop aimed to familiarise kids (ages 5 – 12) with the foundation of woodblock printing and collage in the same vein as […]
The Art We Make E04: The Cat Show
In this episode, Elize de Beer and Britt Lawton from the David Krut Projects (DKP) team are in conversation about The Cat Show! A group exhibition hosted at 142A Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood from December 2018 until February 2019 where young and established artists associated with DKP have responded to the theme of Cats! Elize […]
FAITH 47, briefly back in South Africa.
FAITH 47 is briefly back in South Africa after her move to Los Angeles. To all the followers of her work, we would like to share that she will be at the DAVID KRUT WORKSHOP at ARTS ON MAIN on Sunday 17 February 2019, 11am to 1pm, to talk about her experiences in re-locating to […]
Print of the Month | December 2018 – Matthew Hindley ‘Fireball’
This month features Matthew Hindley’s watercolour monotype Fireball, 2016 as our print of the month. This print was the first monotype pulled when he made this series at the David Krut Workshop in 2016. Hindley’s selection of cell phone photographs were found on Google images and newsfeeds. He is attracted to the raw quality of […]
The Print Club launched in collaboration with Mesh Club at the Keyes art Mile
MESH CLUB is extremely proud to partner with David Krut Projects to bring together a collection dedicated exclusively to printed works of art on paper. Installed throughout MESH, ON PAPER features unique and editioned works by fourteen emerging, mid-career and established South African artists. Abstract, figurative, text-based and even conceptual, the works on view span a range of genres and styles […]
Maja Maljević ‘Document for the People’ installed at DKW Arts on Main
The print collage series titled Document for the People were part of Maljević’s popular exhibition Polytekton 2018. They are on show at the David Krut Workshop, at Arts on Main in Maboneng. Maljević collaborated with Master Printer Jillian Ross and her team, at the David Krut Workshop, on a series of prints titled Documents for the People. […]
Senzo Shabangu: Endless Journey at 142 Archive
‘Senzo Shabangu: Endless Journey’ is an archive showcase prints created by Senzo Shabangu during his time working with David Krut Projects between 2010 and 2015. Shabangu began exploring urban living and human nature through monotypes at the David Krut Workshop (DKW) in 2010. In 2011, he moved on to making linocuts at DKW Arts on Main […]