Wim Legrand Little whirlwind of trouble, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 80 x 100 cm R16,000
Wim Legrand These play a part later on 3, 2017 Watercolour & pencil on paper 21 x 29.7 cm
R3,800
99 Loop is delighted to be exhibiting a new collection of paintings & drawings by surrealist Wim Legrand.
Wim Legrand’s latest work builds on previous themes – the strangeness of the everyday, and our ever-distracted state of subjection to the overabundance of information, commercials, social media, and nonsense. His fabulistic narratives feature the artist’s idiosyncratic visual language of sponges, cheeses, hot dogs, cookies, randomly commonplace, seemingly innocuous objects fashioned into alien vegetation. Invasive growth has never been this fun.
Legrand’s everyday allegories are deceptively humorous and innocent; one cannot help but sense turmoil beneath the surface. Similarly, the show’s irreverent title masks a more serious connotation of the social media landscape: we build realities, filtered for maximum likeability, lobbying for audience approval and confirmation of significance.
Test Campaign acts a curtain-raiser, a tongue-in-cheek prelude to Legrand’s full-scale solo exhibition set for February 2018 at 99 Loop.
Wim Legrand These play a part later on 8, 2017 Watercolour & pencil on paper 21 x 29.7 cm R3,800
Wim Legrand Moral of the Story, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 80 x 100 cm R16,000
Wim Legrand These play a part later on 2, 2017 Watercolour & pencil on paper 21 x 29.7 cm R3,800
Wim Legrand These play a part later on 3, 2017 Watercolour & pencil on paper 21 x 29.7 cm R3,800
Wim Legrand These play a part later on 4, 2017 Watercolour & pencil on paper 21 x 29.7 cm R3,800
Wim Legrand Garden Variety, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 80 x 100 cm R16,000
Wim Legrand These play a part later on 5, 2017 Watercolour & pencil on paper 21 x 29.7 cm R3,800
Wim Legrand These play a part later on 6, 2017 Watercolour & pencil on paper 21 x 29.7 cm R3,800
Wim Legrand These play a part later on 7, 2017 Watercolour & pencil on paper 21 x 29.7 cm R3,800
Wim Legrand Test Campaign Limited edition risograph printed zine Edition of 25 R150