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ART EXHIBIT
"Super Boring" by Wayne Barker
Venue: Stellenbosch Modern And Contemporary Art Gallery, Church
St, Stellenbosch. Tel: (021) 887 3607
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00am - 5:00pm, Sat & Sun: 9:00am -
1:00pm
Duration: 20 Mar - 23 May 2010
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Wayne Barker has challenged convention and pushed the
boundaries of art-making for twenty five years. As a multi-media artist;
deconstruction and subversion underpin Barker’s unique brand of conceptual
expressionism. His art always probes the complex history of South
Africa.
Super Boring is not a mid-career retrospective but rather an
exhibition of new work which draws on themes, techniques and strategies
that Wayne Barker has been utilizing and developing over his entire
career. In this sense it is not just a summary of his work to date but
also a glimpse into what the future holds.
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In this new exhibition he develops and expands the complex
web of issues and styles which comprise his entire oeuvre. From the
digital manipulation of Modern South African Art, the incorporation of
traditional craft, subtle chaotic Expressionist gestures beside neatly
outlined Afro-Pop imagery to the ever-present signature neon signage.
Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the
new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, whilst
celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and
drives this unique country into and beyond 2010.
Super Boring is a curatorial collaboration between Andrew
Lamprecht, SMAC Art Gallery and Wayne Barker. A catalogue contextualising
his new work in terms earlier bodies of work entitled; Wayne Barker: Super
Boring with text by Andrew Lamprecht and contributions by Simon Njami,
Carol Brown and Thembinkosi Goniwe will be launched during the Joburg Art
Fair, 25 – 28 March 2010, Booth 06
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