'A Retrospective Exhibition'
Simon Stone at Standard Bank Gallery'Simon Stone: A Retrospective Exhibition' is the first comprehensive review of the career of one of South Africa's most accomplished artists, Simon Stone. Jointly organised by the Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery (SMAC) and the Standard Bank Gallery, the exhibition spans thirty-five years of Stone's work, from 1978 - 2013, and includes a selection of his most definitive paintings.
Stone is renowned for his various stylistic approaches, such as natural realism and symbolic collage. He juxtaposes different genres in paintings constructed around multiple images that provide vivid and poetic accounts of his own personal journey. Flashbacks to the troubled history of South Africa are interspersed with evocations of fabled works of art, legendary cities, beautiful women, and memories of the Cape, Johannesburg, as well as small towns and the lonely highways and the byways of his beloved Karoo. Stone's paintings have been described as 'unashamedly traditional - with a twist'.
09 July - 14 September
