Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 14 March 2016

Session 4

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Lot 536
  • Ian Grose; Moiré


Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000
Selling Price
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About this Item

South African 1985-
Moiré

signed, dated 2013, printed with the title and medium on a Stevenson Gallery label on the reverse

oil on linen laid down on board
155,5 by 119,5cm excluding frame

Notes

Ian Grose completed his post-graduate diploma in painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, in 2010. He received the Tollman Award for Visual Arts in 2011 and was awarded the Absa l'Atelier prize in 2011, spending six months in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2012. During his time in Paris he was exposed to the painting traditions held in the city's famous museums. Grose like Post-Impressionist, Edouard Vuillard is famed for his handling of genres like portraiture, interiors and still life. He wants to make paintings “that work”: an image that “pulls your eye and your mind back to it and you can dwell in the painting for a long time, visually, and also ... you can constantly work out different meanings – or it just seems there’s a kind of inner mystery to it that you can’t quite get to the bottom of.” This mystery is present in his work Moiré which also reveals his interest in the materiality of paint and his curiosity in the proliferation and recontextualisation of imagery. Moiré is a textile, traditionally of silk, with a rippled or 'watered' appearance. Encouraging the viewer to focus on an image that seems to be flowing, he captures the feel of the fabric on a flat painted surface.

Alexander Matthews. (2014) Painting and the miracle of representation [Online], Available: http://mg.co.za/article/2014-07-31-painting-and-the-miracle-of-representation [02/02/2016].

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