STEVENSON, Cape Town
04.06.2015 – 18.07.2015
Each artist in STEVENSON’s ‘Nine Artists’ — a simultaneous presentation of nine solo exhibitions — reviewed in nine words.
Ephrem Solomon
Technically impressive woodcut portraits ranging from exquisite to meh.
Marvin Luvuala Antonio
Packaging materials given hip lease on life. Also Dick.
Marvin Luvualu Antonio, But do they dream of electric chocolate, 2015.
Book, plastic and adhesive, 13.5 x 20.5 x 2cm.
Matthew Alexander King
Please email matthew@stevenson.info. You are now a relational aesthete![1]
Zakara Raitt
Imposing cardboard structures alternate viewers between surveyor/surveyed dichotomies. Winner.
Iman Issa
Witty portrait of constructed revolutionary figure through fabricated speech.
Iman Issa, The Revolutionary, 2010.
Audio, speakers, white bench. Duration 5 min 58 sec, Edition of 2
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Camera gazing in terminal hermeticism à la Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Study for T.H. with Five Figures,
2013 – 15 (0702), 2015.
Pigment print on archival paper, 203 x 152.5cm, Edition of 5.
Peterson Kamwathi
The protestors’ Ascension. Perhaps Issa’s revolutionary is behind it.
Mame-Diarra Niang
Friedrich does Dakar: Romantic Sublime reconfigured as cityscape alienation.
Thierry Oussou
Séance channeling Basquiat and Leatherface. Visually naïve, hellishly unnerving.
[1] Please Note: This assumes that the artist’s proposal for a temporary Stevenson email address as part of his performance was granted.