Stanley Pinker

Exhibited

Strauss & Co, Welgemeend August Art Month: Satire & Irony, 2019.

Literature

Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, illustrated in black and white, unpaginated, cat. no. 34.

Michael Stevenson (ed) (2004) Stanley Pinker, Cape Town: Michael Stevenson, illustrated in colour on page 80.

Strauss & Co (2019) Welgemeend August Art Month: Satire & Irony, Cape Town: Strauss & Co, illustrated in colour on page 37.

Notes

"Pinker spent a decade living, studying and working in Europe between 1954 and 1964. In his intelligent translation of the formal conventions of modern art movements, especially Cubism, he explores the follies, pretensions and evils of colonial and post-colonial white society in South Africa. In this painting, which exemplifies Pinker's later work, the idea that this society is capable of transformation is gently mocked by the exercise machines that promise a new body, but not necessarily a new or changed mind. The fresh colour and decorative flatness of the work competes with a savage dryness of line and fractured quality in the figurative elements. This results in a work where emotional and conceptual complexity is woven into a composition of exceptional formal elegance."¹

^1. Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, unpaginated.

Provenance

Die Kunskamer, Cape Town, 1993.

Private Collection.