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I am an artist you know is my right to be odd.   Bucchianeri

 

We have to take risks with art. If we don’t, it all becomes a bit boring.

Julie Walters

 

When it comes to art, it’s important not to hide the madness.

Ordinary is never beautiful. To be beautiful, you must be weird, different, strange.         Jerico Silvers

 

 

“The more intelligent, the less sane.”

George Orwell

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             By capturing a sense of place an artist can perhaps escape

 The avant-garde painter Ch’eng Hsi said: an artwork is not only an open window for the viewer’s  eye, it is also an object for the viewer’s mind…

  The sense of place in art can be about a space, or a sense of belonging, or a specific geographical point. It can cover many physical forms, yet also many emotions and senses. It could be a place where we grew up or where we are right now. It might even exist only in our minds.

With this theme we wanted to inspire artist to capture a sense of place in any form of

”  “-scape art:

landscape

cityscape

waterscape

mindscape etc

Works could either be representational or expressive and executed in any medium and size.

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Cadeau:  french or Dutch word for gift
In afrikaans kado
On the one hand it is a timely and appropriate theme for the festive season, but more importantly we wanted the artists to be inspired by the gifts of nature.  And gallery visitors to be touched by the beauty that lies in the intricacies, but also the in the simplicity of nature.

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to
us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our
circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty.”

Albert Einstein

 

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To bloom: to produce or yield blossoms; to make bloom or cause to flourish and thrive

The aim of this exhibition was to make participating artists feel inspired by the upcoming spring

 and Rupi Kaur’s words: “Bloom beautifully dangerously loudly (or) bloom softly. However you need, just bloom.”

If you would like to receive an exhibition catalogue, please send a Whatsapp to 066 370 2479

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 f i g u r e    o u t

Figure… the figurative in art is a representational portrayal as used in anatomical drawing or portraiture

in contrast

abstract/expressive art is without figure, nonrepresentational and considered more emotive in nature …but most people will still try to ‘figure it out’…

In figure out we gave artists the opportunity to work either figuratively (live drawing/ portraiture) or fully abstract. Or to try their hand at both

Exhibition opening was on 8^th of June @ 18h00.