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ART EXHIBIT
Sometimes They Catch You: The Underground Revisited
Venue: Joćo Ferreira, 70 Loop St, Cape Town. Tel: (021) 423
5403
Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri : 10:00am to 5:00pm, Sat: 10:00am to 2:00pm
Duration: 3 - 27 Jun 2009
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Tony Squance's first solo exhibition in
Madrid was based on observations of people as they travelled to work in
the underground system between six and seven o'clock in the morning; the
paintings were based on sketches he made in situ.
Twelve years have passed since then.
Architectural changes have been made; the trains are newer, the wagons are
brighter, and the passages are wider. There is less dirt. There are
gadgets to play with.
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But little has changed in the bearing of
the people observed, nor indeed of the observer.
This time, instead of making sketches,
Tony Squance has surreptitiously taken photos in the manner of Walker
Evans in the 1930s. Sometimes the passengers would catch him using the
camera, creating moments of paranoia; even shame.
Some of the photos taken were used as a
launch pad for this small body of work.
Squance's paintings are now pared down to
black figures on white ground. His seated figures sit on no structure;
they project no shadow. Some clutch on to their bags, some sleep, some
stare somewhere. If his figures stand, they stand on nothing, they hold on
to no rail, and lean on nothing.
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