Urban Impressions (Excerpts from a group exhibition)
Greetings fellow steemians!
At the moment I am working on a new post that is taking a while to write. I will be posting it soon. In the meantime, I thought I would share some pieces that I exhibited recently at a group show in Pretoria, South Africa. The show took place at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery and was titled URBAN IMPRESSIONS.
Here is a short excerpt of the concept of the show:
Paired with sound the visual representations in the exhibition acquire new meaning, evoking a sensory experience in the viewer. Various aspects of life in the city are rediscovered and recontextualised: the breaking down of monuments, the erecting of new monuments, urban dilapidation and rejuvenation, city dwellers and everyday life in general. The artists bring their personal experience of city living, specifically within the context of Pretoria, to life.
I submitted the following two pieces for the show:
Title: When I reveal myself to you please look right through me
2017
Ink, acrylic, charcoal, oil pastel, abatement
32 x 45cm (Paper Size)
Title: I am here when the dust settles because I am the settled dust
2017
Ink, acrylic, downtroddenness
32 x 45cm (Paper Size)
Let me know what you think! I will be back soon with a new blogpost. Thanks for reading!
You are doing brilliant. Upvoted your post. Thanks
Thank you for the support! Keep an eye out for more :)
Your titles are the best. Beautiful work as always.
Thanks! I will let you in on a little secret: I like them too :P
Consider yourself followed!
Haha, thank you for the follow. I look forward to reading the post that you're working on!
I love your pieces. So original. So expressive.
Thanks @Twirble! I think the next piece I am writing might be of interest to you in that regard so stay tuned!
thank you for sharing
Happy to do it! Thanks for reading :)
Very nice work, there's something captivating about the mixed use of media. Charcoal is one of my favorites, it is explosive yet controlled. Not sure though which aspect of the urban city evokes the form as it is more organic than constructed -cheers
I don't think the pieces evoke the city from a structural perspective but rather from a personal perspective. How does the city affect the people living it? What is the relationship between the people in the urban spaces? These are the types of thoughts that drove these submissions. I think it captures the indifference of the city but through the lens of the humans inhabiting it. But this could also be an elaborate explanation trying to justify work that has nothing to do with the theme. You decide! :)
Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for the explanation. I see you're beginning to think like an architect maybe? which didn't occur to me. Interesting art engages the observer by evoking emotions in the observer, and activates the thinking process. Such as the thought of what is it that grabbing your attention, but cannot figure it out at the first glance, or the second. Maybe the theme is hidden in the work, and how the city affected you -cheers
That second piece is super interesting. As a comic artist, I guess I automatically read it like a story. Keep it up. Followed.