11/2/2005
Stukkies
Artspace, Fairland
JP Meyer, Varenka Paschke, Cobus van Bosch. All things are made up of little things. What makes it meaningful is that it is constructed in patterns. This exhibition consists of three individual approaches to the simple idea that both the tactile and spiritual world consists of constructions of small fragments.
JP Meyer, Varenka Paschke, Cobus van Bosch
ALL things are made up of little things. What makes it meaningful is that it
is constructed in patterns. This exhibition consists of three individual
approaches to the simple idea that both the tactile and spiritual world
consists of constructions of small fragments.
JP Meyer:
"At present I am particularly interested in the relationship that exist
between mark-making and human consciousness and in the significance of
sequence and repetition in the natural world and more specifically in our
make-up, thought processes and behaviour. I am intrigued by how we perceive
patterns; make connections and how we understand parts in relation to the
whole. I am interested in how we build our internal and external pictures
through the use of visual and mental 'ordering'. The experience of
continuous mark-making is how I find my place and helps me to position my
few thousand earth-hours in the long evolution of the world."
Varenka Paschke:
"Depicting life through painting is a way of controlling it, almost a way of
freezing time manually. By using the abstract, I make sense of the
figurative: as the human body owes its life to the unified functioning of
cells. Likewise cells depend on millions of atoms in order to flourish.
These make up a diverse network of universes. Distance transforms abstract
colourful building blocks into figurative personalities. Colour is what
gives life a sense of sanity. And shaping it turns it into reality. This
way I am giving you the universe inside me."
Cobus van Bosch:
"What fascinates me the most about bone (my prime material) is how it feels
- cool, weighty and buttery. Just as paint. But while it is a much more
morbid material to work with (or to prepare), and never easily
transformable, it has endless metaphoric qualities. In the past my
bone-works, consisting out of hundreds or thousands of little pieces, were
primarily aimed at evoking experiences of memory and loss, but now it also
include a less emotional and more visually focused approach - mainly through
pattern making. But the metaphor of bone as a document of the past still
resonates - albeit through a landscape transformed over time by the
elements, or by man in his darker moments."
Image: Cobus van Bosch: "Blouberg 1808"; Medium: bone, wood, resin and paint
Opening: Sunday 13 February 2005 at 17:30
Preview: Saturday 12 February 10:00 - 14:00
Guest speaker: Lucia Burger (art advisor and journalist)
Artspace
3 hetty avenue, fairland
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Gallery hours: tuesday - friday 10:00 - 18:00
saturday 10:00 - 14:00
closed sunday/monday