Four South African Artists (review)
Bil l Wright's Gallery has long played host to many exhibitions of traditional African art but with his new show and new exhibition space devoted to contemporary work, Wright has entered into the arena showing the work of four artists currently living and working in South Africa. Though minimally contextualized in terms of any curatorial strategy (the primary organizing principle for the show seems to be the nationality of the artists), the exhibition is more the result of Wright's long standing relationship with South African artists which began in 1976 with his first visit there. It would be far reaching to say that four artists could adequately provide a representative overview of the wide range of activity currently coming out of South Africa, yet the show lacks a degree of cohesiveness that would otherwise give a stronger commentary on the directions that contemporary artists are taking their practices.