Gavin Rooke – Short Stories at Ebony/Curated Framschhoek opens this Saturday, 14th May 2022 at 11:30am. The opening coincides with the Franschhoek Literary Festival which takes place from 13-17 May 2022.
“Gavin Rooke’s sculptures in copper might look like simplified geometric forms with simple, everyday phrases stamped onto them, but that’s where the simplicity ends. Both words and matter become complex and unstable in his hands. The reduced forms of the sculptures look at a glance like classic minimalism – precisely the kind of object that rebuffs meanings and resists labels: its artistic significance lying in its ability to refer to nothing outside of itself and be nothing but itself; objects of pure integrity. Yet, he has stamped them with phrases, as if labelling them and making them represent something.
These works, however, engage with irony and double entendre: the ways in which the meanings of words and phrases double, or multiply, sometimes meaning two things at once, sometimes even opposites.” – Graham Wood
Gavin Rooke (1971-) lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Gavin was awarded the Sasol New Signatures Art Prize in 2007. He founded the Rooke Gallery in the same year (representing amongst others, Zander Blom, Roger Ballen, Frank Marshall, iJusi and The Bang Bang Club) and has since published 4 art titles (The Drain of Progress by Zander Blom, TEN & 6×6 by The Society of Photographers and Renegades by Frank Marshall).
The exhibition can be viewed in person and on ArtsyÂ
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WHAT: Gavin Rooke – Short Stories
WHERE: EBONY FRANSCHHOEK, Franschhoek Square, 32 Huguenot Street, Franschhoek 7690
WHEN: 14th May – 30th June 2022
INFO: T +27 (0)21 876 4477 | E info@ebonycurated.com | Visit
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