'FULCRUM STUDY'
Nico Krijno at blank projects
'FULCRUM STUDY' is the second solo show by Nico Krijno, a sculptor-photographer based in Cape Town. As the title suggests, this exhibition concerns itself with the tension beneath the surface of things, particularly that which underlies the everyday and the mundane. Through a process of assembling found objects and materials and translating these sculptures and installations into photographs, Krijno examines the relationship between the two disciplines and their inherent limitations. The photographic 'still life' studies reveal the purposelessness and absurdity of certain mundane everyday objects when placed out of context and lend them anonymity by creating new roles for them, forcing a conversation that combines irony, humour and melancholy. To this end, Krijno explains, "editing and presentation are crucial in placing nature and our constructed world either in harmony or at odds… I want to show that the truth is not something simple, that there are not always clear and definitive answers."
18 July - 10 August
'First Time'
Kerry Chaloner
“Feminine painting is propositional rather than assertive, it questions the motive and intent of the making… It is not a question of the decorative or nondecorative, it is a question of the personal and impersonal. Stable and unstable, passive and aggressive, conceptual and intuitive.”1
“Does she come with the painting? Because that would be a good deal.”2
“The twentieth century has been one of extreme trauma. Aesthetics and the matrixial gaze can play a large part in healing past and future traumas through present occasions of communication”3
“Hey lady take me home I’ll eat your ass for R20 anyday girl fuckin’ mooi wit poes”4
“I wish I could laugh - But that joke isn't funny anymore”5
For this show she pokes a stick at abstract painting in its masculine, modernist hangover. This is accompanied by sculpture, video and installation fallout.
1Shirley Kaneda, “Painting and Its Others: In the Realm of the Feminine” 2001
2A visitor speaking to The Gallerist in front of The Artist, June 2013
3Bracha L. Ettinger in conversation with Griselda Pollock, December 2011
4A passerby speaking to The Artist, Woodstock, June 2013
5The Smiths, “That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore” from Meat Is Murder, 1985