Clive van den Berg

A Kingfisher Passes 2013, Oil on Canvas,

Broken Syntax, Land IX 2011, oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm
Image courtesy Goodman Gallery

Broken Syntax, Land IV 2011, oil on canvas, 101.6 x 127cm
Image courtesy Goodman Gallery

Gleaning 2011, oil on canvas, 22.5 x 30.5cm
Image courtesy Goodman Gallery

Cyber Erotics 2009, Two-colour lithographic print on BFK Rives, 66 x 52 cm

Cyber Erotics 2009, Two-colour lithograph on archival cotton rag paper, 66 x 52 cm

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'Land Throws Up A Ghost'

Clive van den Berg at Goodman Gallery

Goodman Gallery is pleased to present 'Land Throws Up A Ghost', an exhibition of new paintings by Clive van den Berg that continue his exploration of the landscape of South Africa, both above- and underground, and develop further the notion of a hidden terrain that is inscribed with all that came before. Of the paintings, the artist writes:

'I suppose there is some symmetry in the fact that, as the son of a miner, I would be interested in the underground, the space underneath the visible landscape. In truth I love both the above-ground landscape and the more elusive below-ground space, but for this exhibition I have made paintings that explore the underneath as a place where an archive of our distempers resides.'

To arrive at a visual vocabulary to engage with this archive, van den Berg looked to the diagrams and mapping techniques of archeologists and prospectors, and the resulting landscapes challenge our sense of perspective, and invite us to reconsider our orientation.

21 September 2013 - 26 October 2013