Sothebys select renowned painter and sculptor, Guy Ferrer, to feature in the current issue of International Realty: France | Monaco. 

The article comments on Re-Vival's quest for meaning in a world in which we are constantly challenged by the unknown - 

'International painter and sculptor, Guy Ferrer negotiates with matter, convinced that you get what you give. His approach oriented towards the symbolic quest always leaves for intuition and chance. "It is a subtle relationship, harmony is temperamental and when it is revealed in a work of art, it is always a surprise because I do not pretend to master what will emerge from my tools"'.

Gordon Glyn-Jones selects six exhibitions across the world to highlight how African art and culture are enriching people’s lives on an international stage.

Glyn-Jones heralds Daniel Naudé’s patience and consideration in creating The Bovine Prophecy – 

‘Over a period of ten years, Naudé travelled to the beaches of the Wild Coast, South Africa, to photograph the indigenous cattle that frequent these shores. The process called for patience, with Naudé scouting the area, waiting for a particular animal to be in just the right place at the right time. The shutter release would signal that moment when Naudé would, after careful consideration, transform the animal into an iconic image’.

Daniel Naudé’s The Bovine Prophecy features in ‘African Art: South African artists making a global impact’ for TheSouthAfrican.

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Photography courtesy of the artist.

During November 2021 Jeffrey Deitch and Black Rock Senegal present Self-Addressed, an exhibition of self-portraits by contemporary African artists curated by American artist, Kehinde Wiley. For this landmark exhibition, Wiley invited a selection of contemporary African artists living throughout the world to each produce a self-portrait. Together these portraits present a new exploration of identity, perception, and self-regard within the global stage through the lens of figuration, exploring notions of perspective, authorship and control within acts of expression that directly address the self. The exhibition of self-portraits offers an examination of the myth of the monolithic ‘Africa’ and an exploration of contemporary artists’ visual definitions of what it means to be ‘African’ or ‘of Africa.’

Teresa Kutala Firmino’s self-portrait The Imagined Self was selected to be included in this exhibition. Her portrait is concerned with the life-changing event she recently underwent with the premature birth of her first child, the physical changes to her body and the psychological impact of becoming a mother.

Bob Chaundy interviews Brett Murray in the final week of Limbo at Everard London. Last chance to view 1st November.⁠
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The pair discuss Murray’s upbringing in apartheid-era South Africa, his political activism and use of satire, his early work and setting up the Stellenbosch University sculpture department, before turning their attention to this recent body of work that strikes a more empathetic tone and sees the artist looking inwards, towards his family and his role as a father. The podcast continues Chaundy’s series of Considering Art interviews which explore the best of London’s commercial and public art exhibitions through conversation with the artists.⁠

PRESS: Interior Designer Sophie Ashby’s bold take on South African couple’s London House features in House & Garden’s ‘Houses by our top 100 interior designers’.

The South London house, inspired by the colours of the bushveld, is complimented by a marvellous collection of contemporary South African art featuring works by Sanell Aggenbach, Sasha Hartslief and Daniel Naudé.

Image credit: Alexander James

Designer: Studio Ashby

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Watch an interview with Brett Murray, on the occassion of his solo Limbo at Everard Read London.

Watch an interview with Philip Barlow, on the occassion of his solo exhibition slowing a split second at Everard Read London.

MANDELA: A LIFE'S JOURNEY
A collaboration with artist John Meyer and Everard Read's CIRCA Gallery

To honour Mandela Day celebrations on Sunday 18 July, Rand Merchant Bank collaborated with artist John Meyer and Everard Read's CIRCA Gallery to create a virtual tour of Meyer’s series of paintings which portray the life and times of Nelson Mandela. 
 

Video Credits: Rand Merchant Bank

Sculptor and painter, Guy Ferrer is a humanist at heart, fascinated by the range of possibilities of existing and past cultures.

In a new exhibition in Perpignan, France, Ferrer gives us his ethereal vision of the deep nature of man. Our insatiable quest for hedonism and materiality is confronted with an innate need to see further and higher in another sphere which touches the divine.

The exhibition, entitled De la matière à l'esprit (From Matter to Spirit), celebrates the multidisciplinary nature of Ferrer’s practice and is presented across three locations - large paintings at the Contemporary Art Centre of the City of Perpignan, bronze sculpture at the Hyacinthe Rigaud Art Museum in the vestibule of the Perpignan Town Hall, and drawings at the Castang Art Project gallery. The exhibition continues until October 2021.

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Watch the Summer 2021 exhibition tour below..