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Bonita Alice: March 2011
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Events Above The Gulf. Events Above The Gulf. Was commissioned in 2010 for the new premises of Deneys-Reitz Attorneys in Sandton (Johannesburg), South Africa. The work comprises 20 units, each 32cm in diameter (unframed). The medium is wool dust and archival glue on paper. Click on image to enlarge). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My interest has long been with matters psychological. In past images, my Beast often evaded a familiar form. In more recent works I’ve accepted the challenge of known an...In my n...
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Bonita Alice: August 2014
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Strangers Of Commanding Aspect. Beast Dead - Sketch 2014 Acrylic on pape. I try to make sense in pictures of what most often. Eludes us in our interactions. We need animals. Animals don't need us, but we need them. Look for any kind of connection. We can possibly get to them.". Beast Dead I 2014 Acrylic on paper. Draping The Horse II 2014 Acrylic on panel. Strangers Of Commanding Aspect 2014 Acrylic on panel. Untitled 2014 Acrylic on panel. Untitled (Landscape) 2014 Acrylic on panel. In many of my new wo...
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Bonita Alice: February 2012
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Their Carriage is Grave and Demure. This collection of drawings, was shown as BEAST AT HOME at AOP (Art On Paper) Gallery, Johannesburg, from March 6 to April 3 2010. Once the desire was emphasised, the force behind it became the focus of my image-making. All works 2009. 69cm diameter. The medium is wool dust and archival glue on paper. 4am Making Little Headway. We Lived Among People Who Vanished Into Exile. Adam Phillips, writing about Freud on the subject, frames the very "young" nature of this desire.
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Bonita Alice: Strangers Of Commanding Aspect II
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Strangers Of Commanding Aspect II. Acrylic on paper, 2014,. 764 X 56.6cm. Regarding other animals,. In Which The Horse Plays The Straight Man. Acrylic on wood panel,. 2015, 35.5 X 28. The drawings and paintings in this and the previous post make up the exhibition Strangers Of Commanding Aspect. Please scroll down to see earlier posts.). The exhibition is my 8th solo exhibition and will open at Gallery AOP, Johannesburg, South Africa on April 18 2015. In Which The Horse Plays The Straight Man. As ordinary...
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Bonita Alice: January 2010
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Anticipated Memory - Solo Exhibition - Art on Paper Gallery - 2007. 8220;You and me were never meant to be part of the future. All we have is now. All we ever had was now.”. The Flaming Lips,. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Black Float Trees 2005/6. Detail . Black Float Trees. The works in this collection have their roots in a previous exhibition, Promised Land, from 2005. I am interested in Utopia’s connection to the future and its simultaneous resonance with the past in. In a future time. Tacita Dean...
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Bonita Alice: April 2015
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Strangers Of Commanding Aspect II. Acrylic on paper, 2014,. 764 X 56.6cm. Regarding other animals,. In Which The Horse Plays The Straight Man. Acrylic on wood panel,. 2015, 35.5 X 28. The drawings and paintings in this and the previous post make up the exhibition Strangers Of Commanding Aspect. Please scroll down to see earlier posts.). The exhibition is my 8th solo exhibition and will open at Gallery AOP, Johannesburg, South Africa on April 18 2015. In Which The Horse Plays The Straight Man. As ordinary...
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July 2015 - The following text was written around the time of my exhibition of drawings and paintings entitled Strangers of Commanding Aspect (Gallery AOP, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 2015). It was included in the exhibition catalogue along with the text by Yvette Gresle (which you can still read by scrolling down to see previous posts). Dog in Water 2014 Watercolour. I had the impression, at least with some, that I was getting through. Something must have happened though. If there was anything lik...
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Bonita Alice: September 2010
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5th Post - Site-Specific. Between 1998 and 2002 I made a series of temporary site-specific installations in South Africa and Brazil. TURF 1998 Johannesburg, South Africa. The issue of land shifted to centre as the focus of my thinking and attempts to make Art in the late 1990's; land. Meaning considerations of nationhood and identity, but also the material meaning of the word. As one of its symbols, grass. Or turf became a compelling subject for me, tying together ideas. On the opening day of! In his his...
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Bonita Alice: December 2009
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Then II . No. 2 2008. The notion of Utopia has become central to my understanding of attachment to place. Years of exploring ideas around nationhood and identity in order to understand the whole area of attachment to, or identification with, place, I finally accepted that my preoccupation with place had less to do with geography and history than with internal processes. Nostalgia interests me too, rooted. We have any memories at all from our childhood. Our childhood memories show us our earliest year...
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Links – Paul Edmunds
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Short review of ‘Once, again’ at the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet. Review of ‘Scale’ by Sue Williamson. Review of ‘Houding’ by Tracy Murinik. Review of ‘Cloud’ by Andrew Lamprecht. Review of ‘Phenomena’ by Elan Gamaker. Biographical feature written by Sean O’Toole. Short feature written by SeanO’Toole on ‘Array’ in the Financial Mail. Article about Walter Oltmann, Gordon Froud and me from Sculpture. Formerly Art on Paper Gallery. A community-based printmaking studio that has printed two of my editions.
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