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Zander Blom

South African 1982- 


Zander Blom is an abstract painter with a deep interest in earlier twentieth-century Euro-American abstract painting. Trained in graphic design, his first works were drawings, paper assemblies, sound collages and photographs of unusual painted and sculpted sets fashioned by the artist in his Brixton home in Johannesburg. Now based in Cape Town, Blom is mainly identified as a painter. In 2014, he won the third Jean-François Prat Prize for contemporary painting in Paris; his work is also included in Phaidon's anthology, Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016). Blom's method is process-based and evolutionary, his canvases tending to progress through fixed series. Displeased with the capacities of brushes and oil sticks, Blom started applying his paint directly to his canvases using various palette knives, some even made by the artist. His use of impasto, gestural mark and pictorial structure, along with his exploitation of the oil paint's stain on unprimed Belgian linen, presents a distinctive painting style in South Africa. All of Blom's paintings are untitled, but for a numerical tag that situates each work in a timeline of his evolving practice.

Represented by Stevenson, Blom has held 10 solo shows at the gallery (between 2010 and 2022), the latest of which runs from 12 August to 30 September 2023. Additionally, he has participated in numerous solo and group shows in South Africa, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Mauritius, and the USA.


55 lots offered      69.09% sold      ZAR 2 713 292
 

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Zander Blom; Untitled (Abstract with Black Squares)
16 Sep 2024
Starting at ZAR 50 000
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Zander Blom; Untitled (Tree Trunks and Structure)
12 Aug 2024
Starting at ZAR 3 000
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Zander Blom; Untitled (Abstract with Black Squares)
28 May 2024
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
 
Zander Blom; The Bad Reviews
20 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 5 863
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Zander Blom; The Black Hole Universe. Chapter 2. Scene 041
11 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Zander Blom; Untitled (Tree Trunks and Structure)
11 Mar 2024
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
 
Zander Blom; Untitled [1.515]
19 Feb 2024
ZAR 250 000 - 350 000
 
Zander Blom; Portrait of a Young Man
12 Feb 2024
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
 
Zander Blom; Untitled (Yellow)
12 Feb 2024
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
 
Zander Blom; Untitled 1.57
19 Sep 2023
ZAR 300 000 - 500 000
 
Zander Blom; Untitled (Green)
18 Sep 2023
Sold for ZAR 87 938
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Zander Blom; Untitled (1.176)
11 Sep 2023
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000