THK Cape Town present Johno Mellish’s Wild Natural Setting and Kasia Stefanczyk’s OKNO – two solo exhibitions open on Thursday 11 May from 6 – 8pm.
Kasia Stefanczyk OKNO
Kasia Stefancyk, Light Painting 10 March 2023, 8:59am – 25 March 2023, 8:25am (detail)
OKNO, meaning light in Polish, features paintings and drawings by Stefancyk. Her art captures the ephemeral nature of light, depicting moments of fleeting beauty.
OKNO, a new series of ‘Light Paintings’ by Cape Town based Kasia Stefanczyk explores her fascination with the abstract patterns created by the changing interplay of light and shadow. Capturing the movement of light through a window, the paintings are poetic depictions of the passing of time.
Says Stefanczyk, ‘Light Paintings are records of light, as it falls through an architecture, onto a surface, on a given day, at a specific time. The paintings set out to seize the ever changing forms generated by light as it moves across the day, onto objects and into space. In this body of work, my studio becomes the lens, a frame and my limitation.’
Johno Mellish. Wild Natural Setting.
Johno Mellish, Untitled, Wild Natural Setting, 2022 (detail)
“A week in heaven, or just a long week. The brochures advertise unspoilt dreams, deep ventures into the heart of Eden, a Wild Natural Setting. Seven days on holiday, or seven days to make a world. Got there and read the hotel bible. I thought I was in Eden.
Here is a set of pictures that includes landscapes, nudes, spectacle, and animal encounters. Natural forms that invoke human forms, forms that are shaped, unshaped, and reshaped. The title Wild Natural Setting setting arose from an online advertisement for holiday accommodation around the Garden Route. The area’s comparison to the Garden of Eden suggests a paradise and the ending of a paradise; a wild collision between leisure and chaos, between rest, death, and eulogy.” Johno Mellish.
Following his solo presentation at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023, Mellish’s Wild Natural Setting is accompanied by the gallery launch of his first publication.
WHAT: Johno Mellish – Wild Natural Setting and Kasia Stefanczyk – OKNO
WHERE: THK Cape Town, 52 Waterkant Street, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Opening Thursday 11 May from 6 – 8pm | Gallery hours Tues – Fri 10:00 – 18:00 Sat 10:00 – 15:00
INFO: T 021 470 0178 | E office@thkgallery.com | Visit
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