PLEASE NOTE:
The Official Art Poster Edition 2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaTM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM iART GALLERY.

The posters can still be purchased from David Krut Projects in Johannesburg and Cape Town. For more information, please visit www.davidkrutpublishing.com.

1 - 12 December

Where sport, art and culture intersect…Official Art Poster Edition 2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaTM

iArt Gallery is delighted to be collaborating with David Krut Publishing in exhibiting these posters at 71 Loop St, Cape Town, to coincide with the FIFA World Cup 2010 draw at the Cape Town Convention Centre on 4 December.

The artists featured in the posters were carefully selected by the FIFA Art Committee, who sought a creative representation of soccer by a cross-section of famous and emerging artists from Brazil, Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, Germany, Japan, Liberia, Senegal, South Africa and Sudan. Each poster has been produced in a limited edition of 2010, and interest shown by soccer and art fans ensures that these posters will become collector’s items.

In collaboration with DKP, we are delighted to be distributing these posters that demonstrate a crossover of soccer and art and bring art to a wider audience.

The Official Art Poster Edition 2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaTM, manufactured and distributed under licence by brands united, Leipziger Strasse 63, 10117 Berlin.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

William Kentridge – Kentridge is a leading South African artist who had his first exhibition in 1979 and is internationally famous for his prints, drawings, films, animations, theatre and opera productions.

Marlene Dumas – Dumas was born in South Africa and now lives in Holland. Her ability to instantly capture the character of her subject has brought her critical and commercial success.

Zhong Biao – Making use of representations that resonate with both Chinese and Western culture, Biao has risen to stardom for works that offer sometimes strange and elusive meanings reminiscent of the contradictions of our global environment.

Romero Britto –Britto works in a variety of media, including sculpture, murals and graffiti. His intrepid and strident colour combinations reflect a Brazilian aesthetic.

Julie Mehretu – Mehretu is an Ethiopian-born artist who is known for her explosive and technically brilliant paintings and prints. Her work conveys architectural or draughtsman-like exactness.

Hassan Musa – Musa is a mixed-media artist and art critic born in Sudan. His artwork and writing have forged a new direction for modern Sudanese and African art.

Barthelemy Toguo – Toguo was born in M’Balmayo, Cameroon and settled in Germany after studying abroad. His migratory lifestyle relates the culture of globalisation while still expressing a strong affinity with his African heritage.

Kendel Geers – Geers’s work was born out of the highly charged atmosphere of apartheid South Africa, of which he was an outspoken critic. His work continues to be confrontational and unfailing in its critique of social issues.

Charles Fazzino – Fazzino has been a celebrated artist for many decades, known for his bold and striking three-dimensional pop imagery that captures the joy and exuberance of the world as he experiences it.

Soly Cissé – Cissé is a Senegalese artist born in Dakar. He is a prolific painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. He is concerned with man’s self-destruction through the increasing dissolution of moral thresholds.

Akira Yamaguchi – Through brilliant technique and a sly wit, young Japanese painter Akira Yamaguchi combines classical Japanese painting and modern Japanese pop and cartoon culture to striking affect.

Robert Slingsby –Slingsby’s sculptures and paintings centre on a type of personal myth-making that is reminiscent of cave art of the Khoi-San in the Cape. His mythological iconography is still highly relevant to the everyday state of affairs of South Africa.

Kay Hassan – Growing up in apartheid South Africa, Hassan uses found materials to poetically describe the disillusionment and harsh beauty of the urban environment.

Cameron Platter – Platter is a young South African artist whose work boldly quotes modern pop culture, both celebrating and critiquing it in a unique and stylised way.

Isolde Krams – German-born sculptor and performance artist Krams has a strong affinity for Africa. Her sculpture Red Elephant was bought for FIFA’s Swiss headquarters and, as with many of her works, centres on nurturing and caring for the earth.

Peter Eastman – Early in his career, Eastman eschewed a formal arts education to be a full-time painter. This choice resonates in paintings that encourage the viewer to delve a bit deeper into the works to find their meaning.