Fanie Buys Self Portrait with father (painting about emotional insight) Oil on canvas 42.30h x 29.30w cm FB01217A R 5,500.00
Fanie Buys Well, anyway, this is Wonderwall Oil on canvas 21h x 29.90w cm FB01517A R 4,500.00
Fanie Buys If he's shared (or god forbid made) a hotline bling inspired meme in the last six months that's a red flag Oil on canvas 35.30h x 25.50w cm FB01317A R 5,500.00
This Man features portraits derived from family photographs and celebrity
He comments, ‘This man may not study the humanities, but carries the aura
tabloids, in reference to Fanie Buys’s inner confrontation with the looming
of someone who often makes clever remarks in literature lectures. Most of
acquaintance he both seeks to impress and ignore in the process of
the time he is not there. You bump into him at a party or a bar. You are
unashamedly becoming himself.
spilling your drink all over yourself in the style of Evelyn Waugh in your bid for escape because you can’t believe you actually spoke to him.’
‘This is a man I hate, and a man I hate with an especial glee because I find him incredibly attractive. These are not paintings of this man. I would never paint this man. I just told you I hate him.’
Buys was born in Gansbaai, in the Western Cape, in 1993, and grew up along the Garden Route. He graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in
Buys’s depiction of popular culture – both contemporary and nostalgically passé – in rough, painterly brushwork references the subjectivity through which we are doomed to view not only other people but ourselves too.
2017. This is his first solo exhibition.
Fanie Buys One of these men went on to write an autobiography called: "LSD - Lunatic Surfer or Destiny" Oil on canvas 35.70h x 45.70w cm FB03117A R 6,500.00
Fanie Buys Self portrait as a car Oil on canvas 15h x 19.80w cm FB01717A R 2,400.00
Fanie Buys I am not 100% sure what champagne papi means, but I know that I want to invite it into my life Oil on canvas 61h x 45.60w cm FB03017A R 7,500.00
Fanie Buys Every time a private schooled white boy wants to deconstruct Kanye West lyrics at me (seminar style) at a social gathering I lose 2-3 years of my life expectancy Oil on canvas 29.70h x 19.80w cm FB01417A R 3,500.00
Fanie Buys Yes, I have physically kissed this painting (@arze) Oil on canvas 40.80h x 30.50w cm FB01617A R 5,500.00
Fanie Buys My first love was Olive Oil (Jamie Oliver in his better days) Oil on canvas 25.60h x 20.60w cm FB02917A R 3,500.00
Fanie Buys I recently took up tennis because brushing guys off saying I have tennis is a sure-fire way to get laid Oil on canvas 12.70h x 17.70w cm FB02717A R 2,400.00
Fanie Buys I can't even look at Surfa Rosa with a straight face (portrait of Jordy Smith saying "Howzit China") Oil on canvas 12.70h x 17.70w cm FB02817A R 2,400.00
Fanie Buys Ode to being in grade 6 at the height of DBZ (II) Oil on canvas 40.60h x 30.60w cm FB02617A R 2,400.00
Fanie Buys Ode to being in grade 6 at the height of DBZ (I) Oil on canvas 35.50h x 25.60w cm FB02517A R 2,400.00
Fanie Buys I love Jimi Hendrix, but I hate teen boys with posters from music (II) Oil on canvas 19.80h x 14.80w cm FB02417A R 2,400.00
Fanie Buys Portrait of the man who wrote the lyrics: "I could say, shouldn't you have gotten a couple piercings and decided maybe that you were gay." Oil on canvas 25.50h x 35.40w cm FB02217A R 4,100.00
Fanie Buys 'Can you hate Morrissey but love The Smiths?' Oil on canvas 30h x 30w cm FB02117A R 4,000.00
Fanie Buys The fuckboi who lived Oil on canvas 45.30h x 36w cm FB02017A R 6,500.00
Fanie Buys I love Jimi Hendrix, but I hate teen boys with posters from music (I) Oil on canvas 19.80h x 14.80w cm FB02317A R 2,400.00