11/10/2022 0 Comments I cant figure one why some lego missing pieces orders fail validation check while other ones pass![]() ![]() He has the same formal elements at his command and perhaps also a nagging feeling that art may not be the most effective medium for political change. ![]() He has no less authority here, constructing, casting, finishing and naming a pleasing arrangement of objects not nearly as loaded as the imagery in his earlier work. In earlier works such as 19 Boys Running, Brand was certain of the power of object, image and the formal elements that hold an idea together. The names of each are visible in cast Dymotape. The terms are, I suppose, pretty "banal", but it's interesting how much sway they hold, shaping our vision to see something in a plain object which wasn't there before it was given this name and granted the status of art object cast in bronze, no less. The works all take their titles from typical art historical terms and thus carry with them the weight of history and institutionalised education. In their configurations the works recall Brand's well-known Klop, klop, klop and the textured base recalls his more recent pixelated works. The "soap" is finished in a warm grey oil paint, while each base retains its steely bronze colour, coated with a clear varnish. Tableau, Scene and Vista consist of three bars of Dove soap, arranged in different ways on bases whose texture is derived from patterned perspex. It's not surprising that the more you look at Brand's pieces, the more you pick up references, conscious and subconscious, to earlier works. ![]() ![]() As in all of his work, the sense of surface, form, finish, material and colour is impeccable. Unlike his best known work, there appears to be no narrative here nor any political content. These are arranged in a variety of ways and finished in a highly seductive fashion. They both manage to pull it off in the end, but not so much by original approach as neat side-step.īrand has produced 30 moderate-sized bronzes, all simply cast from everyday objects - polystyrene cups, balls of string, padlocks. By titling their joint show 'Balm of the Banal', Kevin Brand and Holly Birkby on the one hand pit themselves against everyone else who has ever approached this idea, from Warhol to Koons and on the other hand risk producing work which doesn't transcend that which it critiques. The banal has been done to death - but then, I guess that's what makes it banal. Kevin Brand and Holly Birkby at Bell-Roberts Contemporary 10.07.01 Kevin Brand and Holly Birkby at Bell-Roberts ContemporaryĢ6.06.01 New Media Art Exhibition at the MTN ScienCentreĠ5.06.01 'Exchange Values' at the National Galleryġ0.07.01 'Mazungu Masai' at the Ibis Art CentreĠ3.07.01 Willie Bester - 'Who let the dogs out'Ġ3.07.01 Standard Bank Young Artist Walter OltmannĠ3.07.01 Fringe exhibitions at the Johan Carinus Art CentreĠ3.07.01 Dina Belluigi and Brent Meistre at the Power StationĢ6.06.01 Jeremy Wafer at the Goodman GalleryĢ4.07.01 'Egazini', Siphiwe Zulu and Helen Clara Hemsley at the NSAġ9.06.01 'Fokofo' at the Durban Art GalleryĢ4.07.01 'Authentic/Ex-centric' - praise from the world pressġ7.07.01 'Authentic/Ex-centric' at the Venice Biennaleġ7.07.01 William Kentridge retrospective tour in the USġ0.07.01 Kendell Geers at Delfina Project Space in LondonĠ3.07.01 'Zulu Beads' at the Axis Gallery in New York ![]()
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