Is our South African contemportary art flat or round?By Bongani Mkhonza

‘A round earth is the most stable shape according to gravitational theory; a flat earth would tend to collapse toward the center, and people standing near the edges would feel a gravitational pull toward the center of the flat surface instead of perpendicular to the
surface’….
Our contemporary art in SA is running a risk of collapsing towards the center if it allows itself to be controlled by commercially driven corporate/private collectors which continues to highlight/promote the usual suspects of the art scene through senseless art auctions and art-fairs and etc. This earth is indeed round; we need to develop a kind of approach that diversifies our art appreciation and production. We need to continue with our endless search for the new, fresh and unknown while appreciating/ conserving and reconstructing the known in order for it to make more sense to our contemporaries. Art curators should take a radical approach when doing their job! Curators go out there research about the unknown, defend the upcoming weak and protect the art from capitalist sharks, rather than seeking to please the markets. Art is not for the elite few!
Art is round!
To be continued…
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