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David Krut Workshop Weekly Children’s Activity with Pebofatso Mokoena, Jillian Ross and Sarah Hunkin

Posted on 2020/04/03 (2020/04/04) by Roxy

This workshop can be adapted to any age group. The activities have been created for ages 4 and up, but multiple levels of difficulty can be found, as well as links to further research available for teen level. Workshop Summary: READ about the artist Pebofatso MokoenaSEE pictures of his most recent exhibition Internal Probes LISTEN to a short Q&A with Pebo LEARN how to mix colours FOLLOW step-by-step instructions to make your own print at […]

Mikhael Subotzky | Humorism (After Eliot and da Messina) | New Editions

Posted on 2019/12/11 (2020/02/14) by Roxy

Humorism (After Eliot and da Messina) marks Mikhael Subotzky’s first foray into printmaking. This series of eight prints, which combine a number of techniques, including photogravure, silkscreen, digital chine collé and monotype, continues Subotzky’s investigation into white masculine vulnerability. The series was created in concert with a new body of work, Massive Nerve Corpus, a […]

Winter Files, 2019

Posted on 2019/10/20 (2019/10/20) by Roxy

Maja Maljević’s latest exhibition, The Silence of the Change, has just opened at David Krut Projects, New York, featuring a selection of work from the Winter Files series that was created in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg earlier this year. Winter Files marks a breakthrough in Maljević’s relationship with printmaking, prompted by […]

Print of the Month | Sept 2019 | by João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga

Posted on 2019/09/03 (2019/09/03) by Roxy

Text by Hagen Gersie Have you ever tried to visualise music? It is an arduous task, but one that João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga set out to achieve. Printmaking is not a typical field for the Peruvian-Italian Brooklyn-born and Johannesburg-based artist, composer and maker of physical and virtual “things”, who is usually occupied with sound, space […]

Print of the Month | July/August | David Koloane | “Power 1”

Posted on 2019/07/28 (2019/08/02) by Roxy

David Krut Workshop’s July/August print of the month commemorates the late David Koloane (1938 -2019). The influential artist’s work looks with a lively and perceptive eye at the bustling urban environment with a particular focus on the complexities of the South African urban landscape. Koloane’s work is often recurring and commonly depicts township scenes, dogs, […]

‘Instruction’ Kids Workshop with João Orecchia

Posted on 2019/06/07 (2019/06/07) by Roxy

Artist Joao Renato Orecchia Zuniga’s exhibition ‘Instruction‘ is a visual exploration of a playful and intuitive working process with sound and music. Orecchia and the David Krut Workshop opened up this process to children through two Kids Workshops. The 2 hour workshop (for children aged 6-12yrs) began with stamp making, the group cut shapes and stuck […]

Treasure Trove

Posted on 2019/06/05 (2019/07/02) by Mthabisi Sitole

treasure trove Noun (n.) a collection or store of valuable or delightful things. A continuation of a previous David Krut Projects (DKP) showcase of almost sold-out prints from David Krut Workshop (DKW) collaborations through the years; the Blue House at 151 Jan Smuts Avenue presents Treasure Trove. The space houses artworks from over two decades […]

START/GROW YOUR ART COLLECTION AT THE BLUE HOUSE

Posted on 2019/04/16 (2019/04/25) by Noma Ngwenya

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 […]

Print/s of the Month | April/May 2019 | Deborah Bell | “Now that the living outnumber the Dead”, 2005. State Proof.

Posted on 2019/04/03 (2019/05/20) by Roxy

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 […]

Print Workshop – A week in pictures 29 March 2019

Posted on 2019/03/29 (2019/03/30) by Roxy

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 […]

Kentridge Studio Technical Director Chris Waldo de Wet and DKW Master printer Jillian Ross in conversation

Posted on 2019/03/25 (2019/03/25) by Roxy

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

Posted on 2019/03/05 (2019/03/05) by Roxy

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

Posted on 2019/03/05 (2019/03/05) by Roxy

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 […]

Print of the Month | December 2018 – Matthew Hindley ‘Fireball’

Posted on 2018/12/11 by Roxy

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 […]

Senzo Shabangu: Endless Journey at 142 Archive

Posted on 2018/11/28 by Mthabisi Sitole

‘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 […]

Print of the Month | November 2018 – Robyn Penn ‘Cloud of Unknowing’

Posted on 2018/11/09 (2018/11/09) by Roxy

Joburg-based multimedia artist Robyn Penn has collaborated with David Krut Workshop (DKW) since 2011 and has had a number of solo exhibitions with David Krut Projects (DKP), such as Pretty World, Exit and Echo. Penn’s work stems from a fascination with cloud formations, ranging from atomic bomb clouds, implosion clouds, volcanic ash clouds to […]

Kids Workshop – Make your own Maja Maljević

Posted on 2018/09/27 (2018/09/27) by Roxy

On Saturday the 22nd of September 2018, we hosted a ‘Make your own Maja’ children’s print workshop with Maja Maljević and the printers from our David Krut Workshop (DKW) at our Parkwood gallery. The open gallery turned into a studio for the day and provided a lively, engaging and welcoming space for the children to […]

Rotation of the flywheel – DKCT visits DKW

Posted on 2018/09/14 (2019/10/11) by Roxy

The David Krut Workshop is a collaborative printmaking studio where selected artists work with master printer Jillian Ross and her team of printers to make fine art prints. The David Krut Projects Cape Town Team have their annul visit to Johannesburg in July to join in and learn more from the David Krut Workshop’s activities. […]