Riaan Bolt Antiques is excited to return to Upstairs @ Bamboo with an exhibition of South African Antiques, Art and Ceramics from the 5 until the 13 March 2022.

The Cape furniture selection will focus on rare 18th century patrician furniture.  Highlights include a fine stinkwood & amboyna armoire with silver mounts, c. 1780; an important neo-classical stinkwood, amboyna & ebony commode, c. 1790; and two rare 18th century stinkwood tables with tops made from Robben Island slate.  Such museum quality pieces seldomly appear on the market and the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to view and acquire them.

An important group of profusely inlaid chairs, made by Jochemus Johannes Prinsloo (1855 – 1926), will headline the Transvaal furniture selection.  These chairs won the 1^st prize at the Pretoria show in 1912 and were subsequently exhibited at Die Krugergenootskap, Pretoria, 1950, and the Van Riebeeck Festival, Pretoria, 1952.

South African abstract art and sculpture will compliment the antique furniture.  Works by mid-century masters such as Edoardo Villa, Ezrom Legae, Georgina Ormiston and Christo Coetzee will be on offer.

Linnware and South African Anglo-Oriental ceramics by potters such as Esias Bosch, Tim Morris and Andrew Walford will round off the curated exhibition.

Kindly note that all Covid 19 protocols will be observed.  We look forward to seeing you in this light and airy gallery space.

Renowned photographer Oscar Gutierrez presents his Nelson Mandela exhibition 

During the key moments that shaped South Africa’s transition to democracy, one photographer was there recording it all – Oscar Gutierrez.

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of former president Nelson Mandela in July 1918, renowned photographer Oscar Gutierrez will launch his exhibition of the very best of those photographs. These glimpses into Madiba moments were captured by Gutierrez over the many years he spent tracking South Africa’s early democracy. 

Gutierrez says “The photographs capture Nelson Mandela and other South African luminaries from the initial stages of the negotiations of South Africa’s constitution, the first democratic elections and important moments that formed democratic South Africa.” 

Says Gutierrez: “Holding this exhibition during the month of the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth is something very dear  to me as South Africa has become my home. This exhibition is my way of celebrating a South Africa that has embraced me and gave me the opportunity to celebrate the birth of the democracy I experienced when I arrived in the country.” 

The exhibition titled “Iconic” runs from the 8 – 15 July 2018 at Upstairs@Bamboo Gallery in Melville Johannesburg. 

The exhibition is curated by Oscar Gutierrez, in collaboration with Makgati Molebatsi of Mak’Dct Art Advisory & Agency. 

The photographs are on sale and 5% of all proceeds will go to the Nelson Mandela Foundation. 

About Oscar Gutierrez
Originally from Guatemala, Oscar Gutierrez arrived in Southern Africa in 1994 on assignment as a newspaper photojournalist and never left. Initially living in Mozambique but subsequently moving to South Africa. Gutierrez has covered and captured events and issues in politics, arts, culture, religion and social moments, developing an immense archive of significant moments in South Africa’s contemporary history. 

Prior to 1994, Gutierrez developed a wide range of experience as a photographer, extending from working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in the US to honing his craft as a commercial studio photographer. His training includes a Bachelor in Fine Arts specialising in photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, as well as MA candidacy in Fine Arts. 

Issued on behalf of Oscar Gutierrez and Makgati Molebatsi of Mak’Dct Art Advisory & Agency 

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Thursday 26 October
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Dear book lovers,

It seems odd, slow and rather out-of-date to be wishing you all Happy New Year on the 13th  of February, but after Wednesday night’s launch of Harry Kalmer’s A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg, where everyone was wishing everyoneHappy New Year, we know we are not the only ones getting into it … slowly.

So Happy New Year, and as with every year, there are lots of exciting things to look forward to in 2017.

Talking of slow, in the publishing event of the year, Arundhati Roy will be publishing her second novel in 20 years this June –  we can’t wait for The Ministry of Utmost Happiness! For lovers of North American fiction the great George Saunders will publish his first novel this March, Lincoln in the Bardo. The delightful Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project) has The Best of Adam Sharpcoming your way. And on the local scene there is much excitement around Fred Strydom’s second novel, The Inside Out Man, coming in May, and Karina Szczurek’s The Fifth Mrs Brink, coming later in the year. This is just a tiny, tiny taste of what’s to come and if you’d like to order any of these titles (or anything else for that matter) in advance, let us know at kate@lovebooks.co.za.

For those of you who are pressed for time but still looking for something meaty, why not pick up a literary journal. New Contrast has had a fantastic revamp, and we are excited to be stocking New York based American literary journal, n+1.

As always, the shop is groaning with wonderful reads so do pop in – you never know what you might find. In fact, one of our favourite customers sent us the following quote (on the Waterstones UK turnaround), with the instruction to apply it to Love Books: 

You go to Amazon because you know the name of the book you want; you go to Waterstones (or Love Books) to discover it and enjoy the experience that predicates the discovery. 

Find our February recommendations at www.lovebooks.co.za or pop in for an unexpected discovery! 

Yours in books,
Kate and Anna