PG Bison this year launched the 1.618 Open Competition. An extension of the successful student competition, this version was open to all and the winning designs for furniture have been produced and will be used at this year’s FNB Joburg Art Fair.

The brief consisted of two parts. Design solutions had to be submitted for both elements to be considered by the judges. Both items were to be produced from a durable PG Bison material of the designer’s choice. Part one was a dining room-style table which would be positioned at a central point at the Fair. It had to be accompanied by benches and would be used for people to eat at, sit on and sell from. The second part was a bookshelf for the book dealers who are invited to participate.

Presented by the Department of Arts and Culture

For over 20 years, the Market Photo Workshop has played a pivotal role in the training of South Africa’s photographers, ensuring that visual literacy reaches neglected and marginalised parts of our society. Since it was founded in 1989 by world-renowned photographer David Goldblatt, the Photo Workshop has been an agent of change and representation, informing photographers, visual artists, educators, students and broader communities of trends, issues, and debates in photography and visual culture.

Presented by Gauteng Provincial Government

Operating since 2008, this programme sees new artists given the invaluable opportunity to work under the mentorship of an established artist towards a fully sponsored solo exhibition at Artspace’s Rosebank gallery. The process combines input on a conceptual and production level for the development of their body of work, as well as a compre¬hensive experience-based learning opportunity to see how a gallery, and the broader industry operates.

Featured Artist

Paul Emmanuel : Transitions Multiples

In association with Gallery AOP

Art Source South Africa are partners and project managers of Paul Emmanuel's Transitions Project

FNB Joburg Art Fair presents Transitions Multiples, an exhibition by South African artist Paul Emmanuel. This exhibition forms part of Emmanuel’s critically acclaimed Transitions Project in which he explores the way society constructs perceptions and performances of a masculine identity. He examines shifting male identities in a post-colonial society through examining the rituals and rites of passage that mark the passing of one life phase into another.
Robyn Sassen comments: “How does one slip the boundaries of liminality and shift from being a foreigner, a stranger, a creature in exile, to one who belongs within the society? It’s a complicated set of values, and each culture has its own initiation imprints that define its members and celebrate qualities that it deem important… Emmanuel doesn’t critique the gestures… He acknowledges these gestures for the shift in values and self-identification they represent.”