You are spoilt for choice with the opening on Tuesday 15 May at 6pm of 4 new exhibitions at the Association for Visual Arts Gallery.
Swain Hoogervorst’s Inside Out uses the artist’s own photographs and found material to explore specific questions he has about painting. Hoogervorst is one of a new generation of South African painters who are reinvigorating the technical meticulousness of classical oil painting in their explorations of the contemporary.
Swain Hoogervost
Johann du Plessis’ “flash!-back(s)” utilises photographs, reworked with collage and drawing, as a reflection of a newfound hope and dignity as the effects of treatment on the body and soul of the artist – who began to recover last year from a long and arduous battle with cancer – started to abate.
Johan du Plessis
Harris Steinman’s Figments uses an evocative series of night photographs of his childhood town to reflect on his disconnection of memories from their reality, presenting mundane neighbourhood scenes that come alive with the sense of a haunting presence hidden from sight.
Harris Steinman
Stefan Blom’s Anti-aircraft girl (2014) – the sculptural amalgamation of a female torso with the mechanism of an anti-aircraft weapon – is an immersive installation which ironically emphasizes non-participation. The polychrome fibreglass figure implies a complex and reciprocal relationship between its sculptural form and the colour enhancing it, modified into a mutual dependency. The artist’s intention is to explore the complex relationships when a personal sense of morality goes up in arms against authoritative coercion.
Stefan Blom
WHERE: Association for Visual Arts Gallery, 35 Church Street, Cape Town, South Africa
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