FRANCHISE – exploring the real joy of PAINTING
This week is the last week of the SURFACE exhibition which features paintings by some of our top young artists: Luan Nel, Virginia MacKenny, Moshekwa Langa, Doro…
thee Kreutzfeldt, Trasi Henen and Themba Shibase. They take us away from digital and back to basics as they celebrate all the wonderful aspects of painting as a medium.
In the current global market, where art and commodity appear inseperable, and the tendency is to migrate towards “surfaceless” digital media, there is an apparent resurgence in the popularity of painting. Painting is being re-examined and celebrated as a medium which consistently resonates as a vehicle for expressing contemporary issues. Perhaps this trend is partly attributable to its having grown the most comfortable with its object status.
This group exhibition brings together the work of several South African artists to explore current attitudes to the medium. Works by Luan Nel, Virginia MacKenny, Moshekwa Langa, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Trasi Henen and Themba Shibase, form a dynamic and diverse group show. While there are varying degrees of figuration, abstraction and painterliness in this selection, these artists are less concerned with the formal delimitations of their work. The focus of this exhibition is the physical, conceptual, and social space explored by painting. The emphasis is on discovery and celebration of painting as the embodiment of surface.
