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.
Ephrem Solomon, Forbidden Fruit 22, 2015. Woodcut and mixed media, 40 x 40cm.
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]
Matthew Alexander King, You Asked A Joke Question,
But I Gave A Serious Answer, 2015. Performance
Zakara Raitt
Imposing cardboard structures alternate viewers between surveyor/surveyed dichotomies. Winner.
Zakara Raitt, In-between, 2015.
Site specific installation, Cardboard, wood
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.
Peterson Kamwathi, Monument to a Vessel, 2013. Installation view: STEVENSON
Mame-Diarra Niang
Friedrich does Dakar: Romantic Sublime reconfigured as cityscape alienation.
Mame-Diarra Niang, Panorama, 2015.
Archival pigment print, 43 x 62.7cm, Edition of 4 + 2AP.
Thierry Oussou
Séance channeling Basquiat and Leatherface. Visually naïve, hellishly unnerving.
Thierry Oussou, Trace XI, 2015.
Mixed media on paper, 152 x 152cm
[1] Please Note: This assumes that the artist’s proposal for a temporary Stevenson email address as part of his performance was granted.
