MARK RAUTENBACH
MARK RAUTENBACH, Gentian (Ad Hominem Series), 2023
Mixed media, 127.5 x 88.5 cm
Rautenbach works in a variety of media, including material which is considered waste matter, as well as textiles and paper. His practice is often process-based, and draws on traditional craft techniques.
The textural languages he uses guides his creative procedures by inviting consideration of their inherent potential and associations. Through ritualistic repetition – drawing on the arcane and everyday, the collective and personal – Rautenbach uses his meditative works to embody psychological and cultural patterns, giving form to invisible spaces. Physical conglomerations – whether of thread, steel safety pins or glass – symbolise emotional connections.
By renegotiating found objects and materials from shops, recycle bins, gifts and disassembled artworks, Rautenbach manifests forms which exhibit his alchemical journey: his commitment to be present with all things even when they are uncomfortable. To delve into, uncover, bind and cocoon his being – to transform into something beyond expectations.
MARK RAUTENBACH, Golden (Ad Hominem Series)
Mixed media, 130 x 130 cm
Mark Rautenbach is a Cape Town based artist who works in a variety of media, often with material which is considered waste matter, as well as textiles and paper. Rautenbach’s practice is often process-based, and draws on traditional craft techniques. Rautenbach was a university lecturer in design for many years, and education recurs as a theme in his work, along with identities born out of narratives, represented through yarn.
MARK RAUTENBACH, Redden (Ad Hominem Series)
Mixed media, 130 x 130 cm
Mark Rautenbach is a Cape Town based artist who works in a variety of media, often with material which is considered waste matter, as well as textiles and paper. Rautenbach’s practice is often process-based, and draws on traditional craft techniques. Rautenbach was a university lecturer in design for many years, and education recurs as a theme in his work, along with identities born out of narratives, represented through yarn.
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