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An exhibition of a new series of paintings, entitled The Lion's Den, opens Saturday 28 August at Worldart Gallery in Cape Town.
Description of the show:
The Lion’s Den is an exhibition of twelve medium sized acrylic paintings for which concepts from popular astrology has been appropriated to create a series of personal narratives. These images are interpretations of the generalisations of human characteristics as seen specifically through the eyes of one character, the Leo.
The Lion’s Den is an exhibition of twelve medium sized acrylic paintings for which concepts from popular astrology has been appropriated to create a series of personal narratives. These images are interpretations of the generalisations of human characteristics as seen specifically through the eyes of one character, the Leo.
This common iconographic visual language and rich symbolic pseudoscience is an ideal area of shared cultural knowledge from which to draw personalised parodies that represent modern society. Working in my usual ironic illustrative manner, the paintings subvert a common perception of horoscopic astrology. And more likely than not, the pictures will employ the languages of nonsense and abstraction to communicate a personal attitude.
To preview works on the show, follow this link:
http://www.worldart.co.za/artists/artist.asp?ID=54
To preview works on the show, follow this link:
http://www.worldart.co.za/artists/artist.asp?ID=54