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ART EXHIBIT
"Naked" by Cathy Abraham & Jenny Schneider
Venue: Joćo Ferreira, 70 Loop St, Cape Town. Tel: (021) 423
5403
Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri : 11:00am to 6:00pm, Sat: 11:00am to 3:00pm
Duration: 26 Nov - 20 Dec 2008
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Artist Cathy Abraham has produced a
multidimensional body of work over the past year, culminating in this
multi-faceted exhibition: naked. Consisting of stripped and sacred, the
latter is the most extensive and is the artist's chief focus. Sacred is a
collaboration in the truest sense between two sisters: photographer Jenny
Schneider and Abraham, with Schneider's immaculately detailed images
providing the painter with her inspiration.
Stripped
Wet-on-wet mixed media paintings by Abraham that blur the observed erotic
object of the body, these draw inspiration from erotic images from the
early 1900s until today. Here Abraham uses multiple layerings of domestic
liquids such as tea, coffee and bleach to create figures that seem molten
and melting, at times both curiously teasing and vulnerable, and at others
disconcerting and chimeric.
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Sacred
Nature photography runs parallel to the earth's gradual loss of wild
places. Through nature photography, vulnerable wild spaces are captured
and held, saved in an image and spared from desecration. Schneider is
mindful of this, but for her there is also a personal element in her
choice of natural subject: the solidity and groundedness of earth, and the
mutable fluidity of water.
Primarily using a classic Hasselblad camera,
Schneider produces images of superior quality and high definition, taking
tremendous care when selecting exactly which images to shoot, and which
prints to make available to Abraham. A sensitive and nuanced photographer,
Schneider is aware of the fleeting quality of time, and captures glimpses
or stolen moments of nature's finer details in a meditative and selective
ongoing process. Her carefully-chosen and sensitive black and white nature
photographs are digitally printed onto canvas and subtly sepia-toned.
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