The Ichikowitz Heritage Art Collection Travels to Constitution Hill

Advancing Art as a Tool to Fight Xenophobia

Following the successful launch of the Ichikowitz Heritage Art Collection in Alexandra during Johannesburg Art Week, The Ichikowitz Family Foundation now brings ART CROSSES BORDERS – CONVERSATIONS from Alexandra to the renowned Constitution Hill. This exhibition features new, unseen pieces not yet revealed to the public and travels to its new home at The Old Fort, Constitution Hill Precinct for audiences to experience from 29 October to 15 November 2015, entrance free of charge.

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Brothers in art: Keeping SA art in the crosshairs of today – Times Live

There are no absolute heroes and no absolute villains. These words seem fitting in respect of Ivor Ichikowitz, a crusader for the arts whose day job is selling armaments.

People involved in the business of war are typically characterised as the antagonist in an action movie, and in some people’s view Ichikowitz might be exactly that, but his passion for art and for reconciliation in South Africa might cast him in an altogether different light.

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Art: Confronting divisions by Lisa Johnston (Financial Mail)

OFTEN when we begin to explore the notion of the “other” in art (and life) the nebulous thread of our perception unravels and we realise that things are not always as they seem. It’s for this reason that art is used as a conduit for open conversations around xenophobia in the forthcoming Art Crosses Borders — Conversations exhibition in Alexandra, Johannesburg.

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“Memory is a resource for action in the world.”

Read Verne Harris’s, from the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Centre of Memory, interview with Janet Smith in the Star, July 10, 2015. “The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.” Nelson Mandela

Dr Mathews Phosa – Lessons from South Africa’s Negotiated Settlement

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“Constitution Building Process in Somalia: -Lessons from the South African experience”
18 June 2015.

Dr Mathews Phosa participated as one of the key note speakers at a special session hosted by the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation in Pretoria.

Dr Phosa shared his experience as a critical former role player in the South African Constitution-making process.