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1. LIFEASAHUMAN.COM – North America
- Holographic Memories Visualised in Art by Mary-Philip: 21 February 2018, Webzine.
https://lifeasahuman.com/2018/arts-culture/art/holographic-memories-visualised-in-art/
Artwork featured on images:
Photo nr. 1: The Pearl of Nizwa.
http://Upcoming Solo Exhibition – The Pearl-Nizwa – SHARM.T.P (artshowroom.org)
Photo nr. 2:
Ethereally Recycled – The Rose Revisited – Sacred Euclidian Space.
(5518) A to E: The Flower of Life – Enclosure Fathom – Part 2
(2019 – 2021).
Photo nr. 3: Uvea
(5522) – partial picture, showing detail – Enclosure Fathom – Part
1 (2018).
https://artshowroom.org/2017/11/28/uvea-5522/
Photo nr. 4:
Artist and Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A
-Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018)
https://artshowroom.org/2017/12/02/mars-trojan-elon-the-shroud-5517-a/
Photo nr. 5:
CHANGE: Yggdrasil (5518) A Paper And Digital Composition –Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018).
2. FacesOMAN – Sultanate of Oman
- The Essence of an Extraordinary, Gifted Mind by Mary – Philip: 10th April 2018, printed magazine and Webzine.
Artwork featured on images:
Photo nr. 1:
Artist sitting on the poster Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) B – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018) & Enclosure Fathom – Part 2 (2019 – 2021).
https://artshowroom.org/2019/12/27/exhibition-list/
Photo nr. 2:
The work below; “Nafurat Miah Alshurb” – The Fountain of Excellent Memories in Mother’s Eyes – “Ayin – Zayin” Feeds our Thirst. The Rose Revisited, ‘’Help Mother Download Only Excellent Memories; The Eye of The Fountain is The Breast That Feeds Us: It Flowers, We Flower’’.
The last work shown is CHANGE: Yggdrasil (5518) A Paper and Digital Composition – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018).
https://artshowroom.org/2017/12/01/change-yggdrasil-5518-a-paper-and-digital-composition/
Photo nr. 3: The Rose Revisited: The Floating Matrix. (2006)
https://artshowroom.org/2019/10/31/contemporary-landscape-2019-cica-museum-11-1-11-17-2019/
Photo nr. 4: Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018).
https://artshowroom.org/2017/12/02/mars-trojan-elon-the-shroud-5517-a/
Photo nr. 5:
Picture of the Vanitas picnic background to the work ‘Restitution & Contrition (5521)’ which featured in ENCLOSURE FATHOM – PART 1. See the link below as well.
3. FREIGEIST VERLAG PUBLISHERS – Germany
- Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018). See page 221; a commentary on the work by the artist (see preview attached) order it now, follow the link below: 1 September 2018, printed softcover book.
https://freigeist-verlag.net/en/buecher/love-politics/
4. TIMES OF OMAN – Sultanate of Oman
- When Language and culture are not barriers, by Times-News Service: 13 September 2018, printed newspaper and newszine.
It was a moment of fun and revelation as people from three nations met here in Oman and found
that language and culture are not barriers to building a friendship.
Taketo Oguchi, Japanese founder and editor-in-chief of the biggest online magazine, SHIFT,
accompanied by celebrity artist Miwa Yokoyama met South African artist Sharm T.P. and her
academic instructor and artist husband Willem Pretorius from Nizwa on the land of Sindbad.
Oguchi’s magazine SHIFT, launched 22 years ago, is among the leading cultural webzines in Japan
and Asia. SHIFT’s current content includes a variety of creative culture information such as design,fashion, art, music, architecture, and multimedia.
Oguchi’s visit to Oman is relevant, as Unesco’s next call for Creative Cities Network applications is
set to be launched next year and illustrates how innovative people like him can transform the
creative scenario in Oman. Oguchi came to Oman to interview Sharm T.P. aka Sharmaine Thérèsa
Pretorius, a well known artist, who has already drawn international attention for her paintings of
holographic memories.
He has a niche interest in artists who have a unique touch, difffferent from anyone else in the world,
which is completely original. Usually, he does not find them in the mainstream or underground art
culture.
“I rely on feelings or select unique works or artists, who are like no other in the world. The work
must be original and reflect a sense of humour. It is very important that the artist has a very strong
will to be highly active in his/her area,” he said.
Sharmaine described Oman as a hidden jewel, having the IT whizz kids, the creative drive and
artistic talent and an old worldly charming history to become rich in cultural exchanges with artists
and collectors, travellers and tourists in other creative cities from multiple countries.
Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius completed her debut exhibition “Enclosure Fathom – Part 1” in Nizwa
recently and aims to hold “Part 2” in February 2019. The first exhibition had seen her and her close-
knit team and sponsors invite 150 well known art collectors to the ancient city.
“We could learn from Oguchi. He has a lifetime of experience with integrating multiple players and
fields of creative artistry and experiences sensitively with the socio-cultural-religious fabric of
Omani society,” she said.
According to Oguchi’s book of selection, artists should have superior relationship skills, know the
difffference between “significance” and mere “success”, a sense of humour, character and integrity, a
steely will and determination to succeed, and uniquely original work.
Most importantly, he stressed, they should possess the “Kaizen” attitude, which is vital. Kaizen is a
process of continuous improvement based on concrete actions, simple, non-expensive, and doable
in a short period of time.
Oguchi, a celebrity in his own right, is a judge at the upcoming Unknown/Asia Art Exchange Osaka in
September 2018. Some 200 artists selected from 10 Asian countries will be exhibiting there.
The four-member artistic team later headed out to Stal Gallery and Studio, the Alserkal Group’s first
cultural project in the Sultanate. Yokoyama remarked, “Though there are very few Japanese people
cultural project in Oman
here, I am moved by Oman’s exoticism and the warm welcome from the moment I arrived at the
airport. Touched by the religious culture in both Dubai and Oman, I have received a new sensitivity.
Moreover, it has become a place where I wish I could extend my stay and interact longer.’’
Let’s hope they will return to cheer up the Oman art scenario.
https://www.pressreader.com/oman/times-of-oman/20180913/281578061560488
5. EDGE OF FAITH MAGAZINE – Monument, Colorado, U.S.A
- Arts and Culture Through A Christian Lens
Photo: Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018)
Edge Of Faith October 2018 – Edge Of Faith Magazinehttps://edgeoffaithmagazine.com/2018/10/23/997/
6. GEORGIA TODAY – Georgia (Europe)
- A Gifted Foreign Artist Names Mtsketha Her ”Real Home” by Katie Ruth Davies: 27 December 2018, printed newspaper and newszine.
Photo nr. 1:
Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018).
https://artshowroom.org/2017/12/02/mars-trojan-elon-the-shroud-5517-a/
Photo nr. 2:
Don’t Panic I’m Floating Starman 1_dot (5517) O. Digital rendition of the original work ‘’Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A’’ which featured in Enclosure Fathom – Part-1. Story chapter also continues on from All Things Blue (5517) E: The Dummy Record – ‘’Quia veteres scalae meae fractae sunt’’ (Because my old ladder is broken) – Ladder Sniff.
Photo nr. 3:
The Age Old Picnic: Deja, Deja – Lydia – The Odyssey – Spectral -Murex: Xenia Nostos – (5517) P. Digital rendition of the original drawing of UVEA (5522) – which featured in Enclosure Fathom – Part-1 Exhibition.
7. GLOSOLÁLIA – Bratislava, Slovakia
- Originally published in Glosolalia, No. 3/2019 and in the webzine, 30.01.2020
GLOSOLÁLIA
A feminist quarterly desktop, described as inclusive, intersectional and transdisciplinary, which is available in libraries and at certain outlets (for subscriptions, write to: casopisglosolalia@gmail.com).
By Anna Luňáková: Finding shapes in clouds
Giannopoulou, E. – Schumacher, H. (ed.). 2018. love & politics. Berlin : Freigeist Verlag.
Authors: Johan Grimonprez, Michael Hardt, Alexander García Düttmann, Mikhail Karikis, Cecylia Malik, Uriel Orlow, Simon Critchley, Robin Wang, Soumyabrata Choudhury, Andrea Messner, Medha Singh, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Miriam Poletti, Tom Bland, Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius, Anna Deligianni, Nauman Abid, Ioana Niculescu-Aron, Denise Padron Benitez, Cheryl Rudd, Amit Shankar Saha, Nicoletta Poungias.
The meeting with the founder of the Freigeist Verlag platform took place after the method of revelation. Imagine Athens in the run-up to the run-up to the first day. A dreamy, surreal, stone town, surrounded by mountains, lined with sea, that non-idylic deadly water that any Athenian hates even for its beachside ghost villages, stretching tens of kilometers one kilometer after another, built in the 1980s thanks to intense state support, villages now empty, uniform and disconnected from energy. But… The acropolis, still up there and still so beautiful, visible from the least likely places, and the next Hill Muse, where you go to sit and drink, where you go to remain silent and write, where you can see free-grazing land turtles in the grass. And now imagine that you want to go somewhere, you have to go somewhere, get acquainted, because although you do not rule Greek, interest in philosophy, art or politics is sold here as a dietary supplement, it is all around and you just have to find the place where it happens. Now. Today.
I came to Chaosmos_ club for the first time for an open debate about Deleuz’s philosophy. It was a nice Sunday evening, warm, and about twenty people sat in a spacious sunny room, and they had nothing better to do than dissect the character of rhizomatic and arborescent thinking. On the wall were printed and glued, like a starved interior, all sides of the book love & politics.
Luckily, I’m not going to do anything but deny some of that souvlaki in the next week and take the book home. This interdisciplinary treasure, which the editors themselves call a synesthetic jukebox, has no beginning and no end. It offers an unlimited fusion of forms, which corresponds to the striking presence of the ocean in the book. It is, in the words of the editors, a game of Νεφελοκοκυγία, searching for and finding shapes in clouds. Love and politics, not standing against each other as negatives but working in dissent with each other, may be bringing a new mode. I will now try to get readers and readers confused by choosing from the authors and works, ideas and moments of this collective book.
See the original article saved in the original language as an attachment below, at the bottom of the page, as well as an English translation.
8. THE WEEK – (KOOL OMAN) – Sultanate of Oman
- Heart to Art: South African expatriate draws attention to rare autoimmune disease, by Hubert Vaz: 23 July 2019, printed newspaper and newszine.
https://www.kooloman.com/tag/artist/
Artwork featured on images:
Photo nr. 1:
Frontpage; Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) B – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018) and -Part 2 (2019 – 2021).; the poster the artist is sitting on.
https://artshowroom.org/2019/12/27/exhibition-list/
Photo nr. 2:
Artist and Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018)
Photo nr. 3:
Artist and below her Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A, and the work; “Nafurat Miah Alshurb” – The Fountain of Excellent Memories in Mother’s Eyes – “Ayin – Zayin” Feeds our Thirst. The Rose Revisited, ‘’Help Mother Download Only Excellent Memories; The Eye of The Fountain is The Breast That Feeds Us: It Flowers, We Flower’’ and, next to it, the work shown is CHANGE: Yggdrasil (5518) A Paper and Digital Composition.
https://artshowroom.org/2017/12/02/mars-trojan-elon-the-shroud-5517-a/
Photo nr. 4:
The Rose – Zero-Knowledge Protocol (5523) – top right in smaller frame – original frame includes a glass boxed container.
Top left – Dangerous Island – part of the illustrations to the book; ”Kerree Shambo”.
Photo nr. 5:
Artist and CHANGE: Yggdrasil (5518) A Paper and Digital Composition – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018)
https://artshowroom.org/2017/12/01/change-yggdrasil-5518-a-paper-and-digital-composition/
9. HOLE IN THE HEAD REVIEW – Maine, USA
Sharmaine Pretorius:
UVEA MORSE CODE MASS AGE – The Method – IS – The Message – Vitreous Humor (5522) C – Enclosure Fathom – Part 2 (2019 – 2021).
Sharmaine Pretorius (holeintheheadreview.com)
10. BEYOND WORDS LITERARY MAGAZINE, ISSUE 1, MARCH, 2020 – Germany
- March 2020, issue – featured the work ”UVEA MORSE CODE MASSAGE – The Method – IS The Message – Vitreous Humor (5522) A – Enclosure Fathom – Part 2 (2019 – 2021)” as an illustration to ”The Story of how your body made me believe in God again – by Aleah Dye”.
Advertised on Facebook as:
Artist: South African artist Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius (SHARM.T.P) lives in Nizwa, in the Sultanate of Oman. She is a prodigy with wild hair, loving her stay in the middle of the desert, saying it is her creative space at the bottom of Jebel Akhdar Mountain, where she encodes her artwork with puzzles, music, and hidden messages and is known for her extraordinary mind.
11. BEYOND WORDS LITERARY MAGAZINE, ISSUE 3, MAY, 2020 – Germany
- May 2020, printed magazine issue – featured the Vanitas part to the original work of art ”Restitution and Contrition (5521) Kickbacks, Donkey Paws and Past Reveries – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018).”
Advertised on Facebook as:
https://www.beyondwordsmag.com/online-store/Beyond-Words-Magazine-Issue-3-May-2020-p209294157
12. MUSCAT DAILY – Sultanate of Oman
- Examine your inner dialogue by Hubert Vaz : 15 August 2020, newszine.
https://www.pressreader.com/oman/muscat-daily/20200815/281629602632500
https://muscatdaily.com/Features/387639/Examine-your-inner-dialogue
13. DWELL PRESS – online
- March 9, 2021 – by Ethel and Mavis, award winning, not-for-profit arts publication – webzine.
Enclosure Fathom Part 2: Limited Edition: 5517 N – Bentvueghels Antartica – Uvea Snow by Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius
NB: This work was removed from the catalogue and its number awarded to another work due to the negative attention this work received from potential buyers excluded to this bespoke service. Kindly accept the artist’s apology.
- March 2021, Award winning, not-for-profit arts publication reflecting on mental wellbeing – featured the work ”Bentvueghels Antartica – Uvea Snow (5517) N – Enclosure Fathom – Part 2 (2019 – 2021)” and its accompanying story ”Enclosure Fathom Part 2: The Book Chapter ? Irina and her husband A GATE – Jovan’s Childhood – THE VOID.”, and a short interview with the artist as part of their Special COVID-19 Edition.
Enclosure Fathom Part 2: Limited Edition: 5517 N – Bentvueghels Antartica – Uvea Snow by Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius – Dwell Time (wordpress.com) And advertised on Facebook as: Dwell Time – Enclosure Fathom Part 2: Limited Edition: 5517… | فيسبوك (facebook.com)
See the work mentioned on this artist website at: https://artshowroom.org/2019/11/21/enclosure-fathom-part-2-limited-edition-5517-n-bentvueghels-antartica-uvea-snow/
14. BOOMER GALLERY – London, U. K.
THE NEW ARTIST, ISSUE 1, MARCH, 2021
- Boomer is a London based art gallery created by a group of London based artists and art enthusiasts who aim to transcend the gap between culture and countries, highlight the best hidden gems out there and push the boundaries forward.
This magazine issue features the two works below, an artist short bio and the works are also for sale, outside the NFT framework to invited art collectors as well as the general public.
See two works and artist bio now at: http://BOOMER GALLERY MAGAZINE | FIRST EDITION | THE NEW ARTIST by Boomer Magazine – issuu
Enclosure Fathom Part 2: Limited Edition – UVEA MORSE CODE MASS AGE – The Method – IS – The Message –Vitreous Humour (5522) C.
https://www.holeintheheadreview.com/sharmaine-pretorius, https://artshowroom.org/2019/11/04/enclosure-fathom-part-2-uvea-morse-code-the-method-is-the-message/ and Transmutation HOLOGRAPHIC Highway: (5519) https://artshowroom.org/2019/11/09/enclosure-fathom-part-2-limited-edition-xenagogue-cochlea-ray-it-measures-5519-a-o/
Read more at: @boomergallery or https://boomergallery.net
15. ARTISTONISH MAGAZINE – Canada
ISSUE 8, Publisher: Discover the Artist, MARCH, 2021
Code: MGZ198012773
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT:
Enclosure Fathom Part 2: Limited Edition – Ethereally Recycled – The Rose Revisited – Sacred Euclidian Space (5518) A to E: The Flower of Life.
Ethereally Recycled – The Rose Revisited – Sacred Euclidian Space (5518) A: The Flower of Life.
See the work mentioned on this artist website at:
16. OBSERVICA MAGAZINE, ISSUE #10, Winter 2021, Publisher: Discover the Artist, MARCH, 2021
Observica – Winter 2021 | Discover the Artist Media by biafarinart – issuu
- Golden Peace Bubbles Preparing For Flotation ‘MideleMarch’ (5517) L – Page 47
Digital rendition of the original work ‘’Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A’’ which featured in Enclosure Fathom – Part-1. Accompanied by the story; Jovan – Helena; Preamble to Paris – Midele March.
17. Publisher: ITSLIQUID, Italy – Webplatform
INTERVIEW: SHARMAINE THÉRÈSA PRETORIUS (SHARM.T. P), NOVEMBER 1, 2021
https://www.itsliquid.com/interview-sharmaine-theresa-pretorius-sharm-t-p.html
ITSLIQUID is a web-based information platform, founded in 2001 by Luca Curci, dedicated to world wide distribution of information about calls for entries, exhibitions and events at some of the world’s leading art galleries, museums and foundations selected. ITSLIQUID has already built a readership of more than 250.000 qualified subscribers. Among them architects, designers, artists, collectors, art critics, curators, dealers, and other personalities of the International art, architecture and design world. It provides advertising services, press office services for events and projects, articles and specials published on the website, media partnerships services.
During the last 20 years, ITSLIQUID Group has become a cultural hub between creatives, exhibition spaces and art lovers.
The Pearl – Nizwa: Penumbra and Umbra – قلم رصاص أزرق(qalam rasas azraq). -The Blue Pencil –
Ithaca – Frozen Race in An Iron Age – Doge and Dogs of War.
Enclosure Fathom Part 2 – Golden Peace Bubbles Preparing For Flotation ‘MideleMarch’ (5517) L
Enclosure Fathom Part 2 – UVEA MORSE CODE MASS AGE – The Method – IS – The Message – Vitreous Humor (5522) C
The Pearl-Nizwa: 6022 – Al-Salhafath Fatat – السلحفاة فتاة Tortoise Girl – An Absolute Dairy
Enclosure Fathom: 日本風コレクション – Nihon-fū korekushon, Ikigai (生き甲斐, “a reason for being”). Oita Ikebana Sakura: The Precious Slipper – An Ode to Mizuki (008172)
ART Habens is an art publication focussed on showcasing and encouraging the work of emerging and established artists, providing them with an interactive platform where they can share ideas, collaborate and display their artworks. ART Habens enables creative people to come together and show their work with the aim of breaking into contemporary art scene.Website: http://arthabens.yolasite.comRead the magazine here:https://issuu.com/arthabens/docs/biennial.ed.xxvArtist and Photographs of Drawings featured in the interview.1. Artist in the Jabrin Castle…
19. Publisher: Al-Tiba9 CONTEMPORARY ART, PERFORMANCE AND FASHION DESIGN, Algeria – Webplatform
INTERVIEW: 10 QUESTIONS WITH SHARMAINE THÉRÈSA PRETORIUS.
Published February 9, 2022.
Founded in 2013 in Algeria and exhibited at Bardo National Museum of Algiers, UPF Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and at MAMA National Modern Art Museum of Algeria.
Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art is an international exhibition of contemporary art, featuring art in the field of Photography, Installation, Sculpture, Video art, Virtual Art, Performance, and Fashion design. Its annual exhibitions held at MAMA National Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Algiers, majestic five-story building, is one of the jewels of neo-Moorish architecture and popular venue for contemporary art in Algeria. Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art aims to seize, in a particular way, the social reality that consists of creating an interface between the West and the Arab world.
Al-Tiba9 exhibits many well-known, established artists from different backgrounds. It introduces emergent artists to the international scene with a primary focus on contemporary art reflecting modern society and its environment, encouraging innovation and diversity of mediums, which engage potentially the today’s art scene. For this reason, Mohamed Benhadj, founder and curator, has established annual international exhibitions since the Al-Tiba9 foundation in 2013. This has grown a network of collaborations with museums in Algeria and Spain, Art professionals, and international artists.
Website: Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Performance and Fashion Design (altiba9.com)
Read more at: 10 Questions with Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius | Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art (altiba9.com)
Water has Memory – WA – YouTube
20. SALANN MAGAZINE – Longmont, USA.
Giving Artists A Voice.
2nd Edition, Publisher: Salann Magazine, 22 MARCH, 2021, digital and printed magazine.
Weblink: https://issuu.com/salannmagazine/docs/salannmag2ndeditionnew_publish
Website: http://salannmagazine.com/
Physical magazine, pages 72 and 85. Digital magazine version, pages 37 and 43.
4 works of the artist feature in the magazine:
1. Top photo – Physical magazine, page 72 and Digital magazine version, page 37:
Don’t Panic I’m Floating Starman 1_dot (5517) O. Digital rendition of the original work ‘’Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A’’ which featured in Enclosure Fathom – Part-1. Story chapter also continues on from All Things Blue (5517) E: The Dummy Record – ‘’Quia veteres scalae meae fractae sunt’’ (Because my old ladder is broken) – Ladder Sniff.
2. Bottom photo – Physical magazine, page 72 and Digital magazine version, page 37:
CHANGE: Yggdrasil (5518) A Paper and Digital Composition – Enclosure Fathom – Part 1 (2018)
https://artshowroom.org/2017/12/01/change-yggdrasil-5518-a-paper-and-digital-composition/
3. Top photo – Physical magazine, page 85. Digital magazine version, page 43.
AI – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MACHINES: ENCLOSURE FATHOM – The Unknown Emoticon – Chladni Scribble Archetype – Egypt (EF 20773) B.
4. Bottom photo – Physical magazine, page 85. Digital magazine version, page 43.
AI – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MACHINES: ENCLOSURE FATHOM – The Unknown Emoticon – Chladni Blueprint (EF 20773)
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