House Villa

House VillaSet in an unprepossessing neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Johannesburgs sprawl, opposite an early learning centre and a Seventh Day Adventist Church, House Villa is something of an anachronism, architecturally ambitious yet small in scale A blue Johannesburg City Heritage plaque set on the wall beside the front gate confirms the buildings status as a distinctive house. This distinction is twofold: it was the home of the Italian born South African

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Tosatti began an incessant pilgrimage in search of the remains of democracy

It functions as an anchor with a very slack tether – a simple idea that allows you to move around freely

and the long-reaching ramifications of apartheid and colonialism across all levels of South African society

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"Petros Village" was exhibited at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere during FotoGrafia - Rome international festival 2006

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The artwork of Aubrey Beardsley was highly regarded by many avant garde collectors including Robert Mapplethorpe and Andy Warhol

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