The Art of Love exhibition runs until the end of March, unfortunately I could not attend the opening, and if you are unable like myself to visit the gallery, herewith some installation images courtesy of Stilbaai Galery:
Feel free to contact myself or the gallery at hello@stilbaaigalery.co.za to receive a digital catalogue.
“Three are few things in life more challenging than being married. The intimacy tend to stir up and expose our most poisonous inner energies.
If we can learn to love here, we can love anywhere.
The question is can we love each other unconditionally, or is our love contingent upon the other person acting exactly as we need them to? It’s easy to ‘love’ somebody when they do what you want them to do, exactly how you want them to do it. But how do you behave when they step outside of your picture? How do you treat them when they hurt you? Those are the times that determine whether or not you actually love somebody.” – quote from the book Will
You are invited to a group show hosted by Stilbaai Galery:
” Love is hard. It takes enormous courage to open a wounded heart over and over again to the possibility of love’s bliss. Love demands bravery. a willingness to risk it all. But bravery does not mean the absence of fear. Bravery is learning to continue forward even when you’re terrified. ” – Will
For more info about this work or the upcoming exhibition please contact Nadine/Ingrid at: hello@stilbaaigalery.co.za
Wishing you a month filled with love, light and laughter. x
Diversity – a fiber group exhibition runs until the 29th of January, but if you cannot make it, The Rupert Museum kindly shared some installation images recently which I would like to share with you!
For more info feel free to visit their website to access the exhibition catalogue here: https://rupertmuseum.org/exhibition/diversity/
Or you can access a virtual experience here: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=MEyBgnezT6W
I wish you a wonderful day
xxxx
The Big Picture – a Group exhibition at Knysna Fine Art opens on the 9th of December 2022 and you are invited!:
I will have 3 small works included in this exhibition.
As you can see below, I took inspiration from really small photographs in my collection and had them blown up to a size I am comfortable to work with.
And below is and example of the work framed.
If you are unable to visit the gallery, feel free to register your interest or request a catalogue from: corlie@finearts.co.za
Wishing you a fabulous weekend ahead.
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 