Interruption: Imaging a Sense of Place by Quinten Edward Williams at David Krut Projects investigates what happens when human and non-human bodies interrupt one another? Forces clash and they shape or re-shape parts of our experienced world.
Williams’s work explores the moment when objects, plants, animals and people interact in a complex dance, and cause an interruption in the relationship that existed before.
Within the artist’s constellation of ideas, an interruption means a body taking a position, often beyond language, but always through a relationship of affect on the body. Capturing this moment in a work of art can give the artist – and the viewer – access to the lived and sensed quality of places.
In this showcase David Krut Projects feature unique works, including paintings and sketches, alongside editioned prints which were made in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop. This selection of works presents a progression of the artist’s practice over a period of three years.
Quinten Edward Williams – Artist’s Statement
“My paintings and prints are sketches for each other. Like sketches, they capture aspects of what I am working with, and elements are transposed, and shifted, from the one into the other.”
In Interruption: Imaging a Sense of place we see a slowly evolving subject matter driven by Williams’s mark-making, by his layering of forms and lines, vibrant – sometimes jarring – colours, and translucent and opaque application of colour. We see a slippage between abstraction and figuration as the artist grapples with his task of imaging a sense of placenot necessarily seen.
WHEN: Opening reception 18 August 2018 I 11:00 18 August – 29 September 2018
WHERE: David Krut Projects Cape Town, Montebello Design Centre, 31 Newlands Ave, Newlands 7600
INFO: visit / 021 685 0676
HOURS: Tuesday – Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday 10am – 3pm
