“The title of the exhibition, SENTENCES, came out of a Thupelo workshop at the National Gallery in Cape Town. As artists work alongside each other, dialogue spontaneously develops – Jeannette was playing with collage and then sequencing separate collages, like frames in an animation strip. One of the international artists at the workshop, Chris Cozier, from Trinidad, recognised the calligraphic nature of the work – ‘like handwriting out of focus’, he said. The idea for a new exhibition was born.
The new series reads like handwriting out of focus. It is intended that the viewer sense meaning through the quality, speed and urgency of the mark. The series is constructed on marine plywood and consists of seven-panelled composite works. They read like an alphabet that requires decoding, a contemporary hieroglyphic system.\\\” — Excerpt from the catalogue, SENTENCES, 2001
Jeannette unite, sentences, mark-making, panels, painting, Ann Emslie
Artist: Jeannette Unite
Essays by: Anne Emslie, Jeannette Unite
Gallery: Bell-Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town
Dates: 20 March 2001 – 21 April 2001
Website: (review) http://artthrob.co.za/01apr/reviews.html#bbr
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