Exhibition

Paradyse of The Damned Exhibition Teaser

BEAUCHAMP, Vusi. The Great Maestro, 2015. Mixed Media

BEAUCHAMP, Vusi. The Great Maestro, 2015. Mixed Media

One of the most interesting, unapologetic and provocative contemporary artist of our generation, Mxolisi Vusimuzi Beauchamp, shows a new body of work in his home town this season. His solo exhibition opens in Tshwane this Saturday, 16 May, at the Pretoria Art Museum at 1030 for 11:00.

The charm of Beauchamp’s present work is in its generous scale, laden with innuendo that straddles political commentary and our preoccupied mass consumer culture.

The body of work exhibited under the title Paradyse of The Damned shoves the viewer around dizzyingly and then suddenly by the collar, enacting a paucity of self opinion in as far as the viewer’s opinions are concerned towards a re-reading/viewing of our global political sphere and mass consumer culture from afresh.

It’s a tour de force– mmutleak.com

Intraparadox – Interview with Dot Vermeulen: POSTING PRESENCE

Winning SASOL New Signatures 2013

Mmutle Arthur Kgokong: Good morning Dots, It’s a privilege to be with you at the Pretoria art museum and to look at the exhibition having won SASOL New Signatures 2013   Dot Vermeulen: Thank you it’s a privilege to be here [SMILES]   MAK: With the video installation, I can remember of the lady paging through a magazine or a book   DV: Yes   MAK: …and there was also a painting behind that animation of the exact image, but you know there was a stillness of the painting and there was an animation with the computer image or the images that was shown on the computer. One may wonder and say what were your thoughts when you won the SASOL New Signatures 2013, what went through your mind when you were told?   DV: I did not expect it at all, I was absolutely stunned and quite overwhelmed, feeling extraordinary, it was a very big surprise, very big surprise, yes.   MAK: Before then did you enter other art competitions or it was the first time?   DV: I took part in the SASOL New signatures twice before, and in the hundred finalists round, but I have never before become a finalist.   MAK: let alone a runner up?   DV: Yes   MAK: So you just went on to become the winner in 2013   DV: Yes totally surprised by that

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