Gallery Glen Carlou in Association with Knysna Fine Art & Everard Read are hosting an exhibition and you are invited!
I have two mixed media works included in this exhibition:
For more information or to RSVP please contact the gallery.
Wishing you a fabulous weekend ahead!
Not so long ago the wonderful team from the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere reserve visited my studio:
And they did a short interview with me in anticipation of a group exhibition to be held at their office here in Riversdale. I am really excited to be a part of a local art initiative in the Hessequa region. Please save the date!
You are invited:
I really like their vision:
“Our vision is one of people and nature living in harmony; what better theme for our inaugural
exhibition. This theme serves as an important reminder that neither man nor the environment exist
on their own, that we are very much intertwined. The theme reaffirms the objective to create
healthy eco-systems where man and nature thrives together.“
And am happy to announce that my work: ‘She does not hold water” will be included:
*A portion of the proceeds of each artwork sold will go towards the GCBR’s ecological restoration efforts and the development of the Hessequa Art Route.
To attend this special one day event, or for more info regarding my work or this exhibition please email: linda@gourits.com for more information. RSVP is essential .
If you are unable to attend this event, the works will be available online until 10 December 2022 and you are welcome to their website:
https://gouritz.com/event/inspired-by-nature-art-exhibition/
https://gouritz.com/inspired-by-nature/
xxx
I went on a short trip to Montagu yesterday
Not so long ago I asked a collector and friend of mine if he doesn’t have any vintage photos I can borrow. He did not but later he reported that he spoke to his mother in law, and that is how we ended up to travel Montagu. To meet Mrs Biesenbach.
After a warm welcome, tea and milk tart, she showed me a collection of vintage photographs and then she took us to the the KWV Building in Montagu:
This building houses oom Gollie’s se fiets (uncle Gollie’s bike)
There is also a small movie house amongst other things in this building as well as a permanent exhibition of works by renowned artist Willie Bester.
I can really recommend a trip to this building whenever you pass through Montagu.
Last but not least…on our way back home I visited a lovely second-hand bookshop in Swellendam and couldn’t resist purchasing this book even though it was empty inside.
I am curious if this was a catalogue for one of David Goldblatt’s exhibitions or an April Fools Joke. If you know something about it please let me know.
Wishing you a fabulous weekend. xxx
A huge thank you to Deepest Darkest Art Gallery for representing my work at the AKAA (Also Known As Africa) Art Fair in Paris, France!
Also a big thank you to everyone who visited the booth and responded to my work! Much appreciated.
All images courtesy of the gallery
I am delighted to announce that Deepest Darkest Art Gallery will represent a new body of work at this year’s AKAA (Also Known As Africa) Art Fair in Paris France this year.
I work primarily with the captured image by utilizing vintage photographs sourced from flea markets and even from my own family archives, which are used as is, or blown up to a larger scale as can be seen here.
There is a tension in using family photographs because their purpose is sentimental, functional, personal and therefore not usually considered as art objects. By replacing the faces with embroidered rubber masks from different cultures, these vintage photographs become mysterious objects of preservation
“Appearances are a construction, a merging from the debris of all that has previously appeared” John Berger
Gary Edson in his book: Masks and masking wrote “The history of early humans continues to be discovered in the symbols, images and myths that have survived and masks are an important part of the process”
The masks are a disguise. It is a method of hiding the identity of an individual for purposes of transformation as can be seen in the work titled: Three noble boys grew to be wise and strong.
In the work: The puppets bought a ticket for the puppet show. These portraits, by losing their original identities, have the chance to become something different. They tell a story of distant colonies and traditions taken across continents to an unknown land populated by, in this case, puppets.
These discarded remnants of the past are reworked, and the treatment of these remnants are at times ghoulish and macabre, for example “Thank you for saving my life said the wicked cat” where I used a photograph of my mother in law as a child and We both love cats. The lace like skull (constructed from discarded doillies – by the way a doillie is a small ornamental mat made of lace or paper or thread and are usually put on a plate under cakes or other sweet food. ) This work is perhaps symbolic of the end of youth and a look at my own mortality.
Text used as titles, are like the photographs – found, reconfigured and appropriated as a narrative. I am interested in how simply changing the text underneath an image can radically altered the image’s message.
The combination of text and photos gives me freedom to make relationships between words cut from vintage colouring books and found photographs as well as my own embroidered masks inspired by African, and other cultural masks.
Fairy tales and characters from stories are a theme that goes back to some of my earliest works – like these doll like rubber works that can be seen here:
So if you find yourself in Paris from tomorrow 21 October 2022- 23 October 2022, please pop in at Booth B12 Carreau du Temple, 4 Rue Eugene Spuller, Paris, to view the works in the flesh!
I wish you a good Knight – I mean night 😉
p.s if you can not make it to Paris, feel free to register your interest with the gallery by sending an email to info@deepestdarkestart.com
hannalie taute 