A solo exhibition of recent works from artist Nicolaas Maritz opened last week at the Kalk Bay Modern.
For more than thirty years the South African artist and poet Nicolaas Maritz has committed himself to a life of intense visual artistic practice. He has developed a rich and exceptional oeuvre – divergent in subject matter, experimental in technique.
Maritz’s artistic roots are deeply embedded in the Southern African landscape. Curious juxtapositions – of the real and fantastical, natural and artificial, humorous and sinister – are a defining characteristic of Maritz’s art.
”Still Life is a traditional and widely appreciated subject of what I call ‘ middle- class art’. People hang them in their dining rooms. The Italian ‘nature morta’ sounds more brutal. Still life pieces have always represented the moral values of moderation, sometimes the inevitability of ‘tempus fugit’,and very often the belated retrospection of a memento mori…… Often there is an intentionally cryptic aspect to the placement or colouring. This may reflect my own position as an artist; quietly painting indoor,but staring out as the strangeness of a much livelier and more prosaic world outside.” – Nicolaas Maritz, Paintings, drawings and prints (2013)
WHERE: Kalk Bay Modern, First Floor, Olympia Buildings, 136 Main Road, Kalk Bay, 7975
WHEN: Gallery open daily from 09h30 – 17h00
INFO: T + (0)21 788 6571 E kbmodern@iafrica.com Website
