DIRECTOR'S SELECTION | February | March 2022
DEBORAH BELL, Unheard Centre
Bronze, 83 x 21 x 20 cm
NIC BLADEN, Erica sparrmannii
Bronze and silver, 41 x 28 x 26 cm
DYLAN LEWIS, S380 Walking Cheetah III (Miniature)
Bronze, 13.5 x 4.5 x 20.5 cm
DYLAN LEWIS, S389 Elevated Leopard II (Miniature)
Bronze, 21 x 9 x 16 cm
DYLAN LEWIS, S399 Surveying Cheetah II (Miniature)
Bronze, 20 x 11 x 24 cm
Denby Meyer’s paintings help us to see the beauty in the everyday and in familiar landscapes. In these works, she captures the dappled light in the forests of Cape Town and the vibrant red-orange hues of the naturally occurring clivias and strelitzias, while the silhouette of Table Mountain provides a recognisable backdrop.
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DENBY MEYER, Mauve Skies
Acrylic and oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Denby Meyer’s paintings help us to see the beauty in the everyday and in familiar landscapes. In these works, she captures the dappled light in the forests of Cape Town and the vibrant red-orange hues of the naturally occurring clivias and strelitzias, while the silhouette of Table Mountain provides a recognisable backdrop.
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JOHN MEYER, Towards Tuli
Oil on canvas, 100 x 135 cm
Widely regarded as the leading figure in the realist movement in southern Africa, John Meyer’s love of paint is at the heart of his enduring prominence as an artist. The magical properties of paint and his ability to conjure nuance with it – the way the light falls on a landscape and the branches of a singular baobab tree, illuminating and spotlighting our mysterious world – is at the heart of his preoccupation with painting. This has haunted, inspired, and propelled him as an artist for nearly 50 years.
While Meyer’s concerns appear to be about presenting reality, it is his preoccupation with manifesting his imagination as reality, that has won out. Many of his landscapes do not exist, however intimately we feel we know them. This is his genius. They present his and our memory of landscape, and how it feels – or might feel – to be in these places.
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Photo credit: Michael Hall
OLIVIA MUSGRAVE, Hungry Goat, 2014
Bronze, 38.5 x 28 x 18 cm (15 1/8 x 11 x 7 1/16 in.)
Edition of 9
TANYA POOLE, Twigs, Snags, Webs #1
Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Inspired by the natural environment, Tanya Poole presents a delicate study of tangled foliage and a web of branches that appears monochromatic, but on closer inspection reveals gradations of charcoal, grey and blue. Poole exploits the inherent qualities of ink and water in a process which is notoriously hard to control. The resulting shape-shifting work hovers between representation and abstraction, Poole’s leaves occasionally morphing into opalescent cells that embody the very essence of all living things.
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ANGUS TAYLOR, Rejecting Transcendence II
Bronze and basalt, 58 x 28 x 23 cm
BARBARA WILDENBOER, A Brief History of the Multiverse III
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
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Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.