Hit the opening of SATARA, a solo exhibition by Jaco Roux, at the Christopher Moller Gallery this First Thursdays.
Ashraf Jamal (Art critic) – ‘Jaco Roux’s new body of work, a series of Limpopo landscapes spliced together with abstraction in the form of blocks and planes of colour, in what has become a signature of Jaco Roux. His works offer us the viewer a fresh, exciting interpretation of the African landscape’.
‘Jaco Roux’s work cannot simply be inserted within an existing tradition for to do so would, wittingly or unwittingly, refuse to recognise that while Roux has absorbed that tradition he has done so the better to bind it to its inevitable transformation. How so? Roux’s paintings, while they can be relished individually, are first and foremost studies which form a suite. Each painting echoes the next.
In Jaco Roux’s landscape painting the neoclassical and picturesque blithely segues into the cool rupture that is modernism.
Perhaps it is because he has conflated the grand and the ordinary, the ‘ideal estate’ and the ‘real estate’. Or perhaps it is because, without illusion, and with great affirmative ease, Jaco Roux has, finally, embraced ‘the body of Africa’ – a creature as real as it is abstract,’ concludes Ashraf Jamal.
WHERE: Christopher Moller Gallery, 7 Kloof Nek Road, Gardens, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: opening 5 Nov to 9 Dec 2015
Parking available at Jan Van Riebeeck Primary School ( entrance diagonally opposite to gallery)
