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GalleryOne11 takes great pleasure in inviting you GalleryOne11 takes great pleasure in inviting you to the opening of Nature/Us on 30 November 2022 at 111 Loop St. from 17h30. This group salon Nature/Us deals with different aspects of the relationship between Humans and our Environment. 
Anita Shapiro will be our guest speaker and Dawn Garisch & company will inaugurate the group salon with an interpretive performance and poetry. 
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NATURE AS US the concept of this Group exhibition NATURE AS US the concept of this Group exhibition I co-curate with Marita Schneider for her GalleryOne11 at 111 Loop Str Cape Town from 30 Nov 2022 - 4 Feb 2023 with a break from 17 Dec - 17 Jan. Chris Koch designed personalized invites for each exhibitor. This is my Skull in Gold a melting of stone and ocean 
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Puddle Twins... #muddypuddles #hiking #tablemounta Puddle Twins...
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Mountain Puddles of Wonderment... #muddypuddles #h Mountain Puddles of Wonderment...
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Dancing Trees... #womb #birth #pregnant #entertwin Dancing Trees...
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Blending Rock Sky Water Humans... #stone #sunset # Blending Rock Sky Water Humans...
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Global Recognition - Kipton Art New York. #artslan Global Recognition - Kipton Art New York.
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Global Recognition - Phmuseum Bologna, Italy Festi Global Recognition - Phmuseum Bologna, Italy Festival.
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Global Recognition - Lensculture New York & Phmuse Global Recognition - Lensculture New York & Phmuseum Bologna.
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Heat Rage Skull Deconstructed Stoned Heat City Skull Tongue in Cheek

Nature As Us – Upside/Down Above/Below Inside/Out

The concept that nature and us are one is not a unique one. Even though many still believe in the dualism inherent in the biblical concept of Man reigning over nature. But lets drop that argument.

How the One-ness of Us and Nature (elements, animals, plants, geology etc) manifests in man-made artworks, that is my focus. Let’s define Art Creation as the human mind’s attempt to express in a visual, auditory, musical of movement way an understanding of life experiences, of feelings and thoughts. Nature provides the source and inspiration which human artworks mimics a multitude of ways. Nature and natural processes are the inspiration. More and more scientific studies of the behaviour, brain activity in animals, insects, and plants these days verify what in previous times was mostly based on poetic insight or empiric observation. We are ever more in awe of how intimate our relationship with our natural environment really is. And how we are not only inspired or soothed emotionally by nature, but how we actually mimic, being it unconsciously, that what we had previously thought had been inferior life forms.

When death or destruction occur in our personal lives, many of us still ask in shock and horror, ‘why does this or that happen to me?’ But then become speechless with admiration of beautiful gorges, magnificent mountains, forgetting that these objects of natural beauty are the end-result of destructive forces like heatwave, thunderstorms, erosion.

Mother Nature’s wielding her tools of creation through destructive actions seem to us unrelated to how our own consciousness is shaped by events we experience as harsh and destructive. From nature, we learn the paradox that imbues not only our lives, but our art creations, with depth and meaning.

Imitating Mother Nature’s tools of weather and wind, artist’s tools of chisel and brush give permanent expression in creations on canvas, paper and in pixels on memory cards in cameras. Ambiguity, paradox are the essence, in artworks as in nature, that really move us.

Without this fusion of these opposites, into a complex whole, we are left with something that is a bland kind of prettiness, or ugliness. Where there is tension, contrast, paradox, the door to multiple interpretations are opened. A hidden sub-text, like in a short story, or a movie provides the complexity we seek in a visual or auditory or verbal artwork.

This is the theme/concept that directed my choice of artworks, when I recently co-curated an exhibition, Nature AS Us for the Gallery One 11 in South Africa, Cape Town.

Date

9th February 2023

Category

Experimental