Contemporary South African Art
Afrika Nova is an up market retail gallery specializing in contemporary South African Art, craft and design as well as carefully selected tribal pieces.
Renowned both locally and internationally, the gallery stocks a meticulously curated selection of handmade jewelry, ceramics, textiles fine art and sculpture displayed juxtaposed to edge street art.
The following products where used.
- Glass pods
- Clementina cups
- Clinton Friedman botanical prints
Tel: +27 21 425 5123
Fax: +27 21 425 5122
Email: africanova@iafrica.com
Web: www.africanova.co.za
Address: Cape Quarter, 72 Waterkant Street, Green Point, Cape Point, 8001
Glass pods
Delicate bubbles of glass, each filled with a seed or leaf. – The little hole at the top allows you to fill them with water, enabling you to use them for fresh flowers as well. They are made in Johannesburg making them a proudly South African product.
Clementina cups
We exhibited two beautiful cups from Clementina. I have watched many an admirer or tourist take hours to choose the two cups that they are definitely taking home. They are all so unique that the choice is nearly impossible, therefore one will also never do!
About the Artist: Clementina van der Walt
Excerpt from Contemporary Ceramics in South Africa
Text: Wilma Cruise
Struik Publishers (Pty.)Ltd. 1991
Clementina van der Walt is a potter who has successfully walked the tightrope over the abyss of the art versus production conflict. On the one hand, she has had to deal with commercialism and its potential artistic compromises, and on the other, with the poverty of the artist who chooses to struggle with esoteric and frequently unmarketable concepts.
She has managed this by developing two different kinds of work, namely commercial ‘production line’ vessels and ‘contemporary’ vessels. With the first she makes a living; with the second, she explores ideas. Neither commercial concerns nor artistic values are compromised, and in fact the same sensibility that guides her exploratory work with the vessel as metaphor informs the designs with which she ‘clobbers’ white commercial tableware. The two enterprises exist side by side;one sustains the other.
Both her commercial tableware and her expressive vessels bear her distinctive on-glazes, marks and images. Van der Walt says that she wanted to create ‘charming,colourful, exciting dinnerware’.The desire to create these objects arose from her sense that pots as art tend to become remote from everyday life.
Read More at www.clementina.co.za
Clinton Friedman botanical prints
We featured 3 prints from Clinton’s Botanical collection (classic botanical; whole plants) We chose the Aloe’s for there unique architectural features and their ability to survive harsh conditions. Although photography is not exactly a “green” industry, Clinton’s Botanical photography certainly reminds us of just how extraordinary our planted is and might spur us on to take steps in preserving the earth’s biodiversity
About the Artist: Clinton Friedman
Profile Excerpt from www.clintonfriedman.com
Always up for a creative challenge, whatever the brief- whatever the location. Clinton will not only deliver with accuracy but he will show you something in a way you don’t see or expect. Its evident in all that he does. Clintons work is subtle, sincere and full of intensity. Whatever the subject, he thinks about it, feels it passionately – then does it beautifully. Clinton not only works on local projects across South Africa, but has also had the opportunity to shot internationally in Miami Florida, Atlanta, New York, London, India and Mozambique.
Read More at www.clintonfriedman.com