GOLD - Exhibition of works by Jana +Koos & Adele Prins by ROOM Gallery & Projects

ROOM Presents:

GOLD A collaborative exhibition by JANA+KOOS and Adele Prins

14.06 - 13.07.2012

ROOM is a new independent multi-disciplinary exhibition and project based space focused on collaboration, dialogue and exchange.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION GOLD aka City of Gold-Diggers, is a collaborative exhibition by the creatives Jana+Koos and Adele Prins. The exhibition takes shape as a sartorial expression of migration, bling, greed, adventurers, street culture, pollution, pioneers, church and capped teeth. These themes are explored with playfulness. The works examine the energy and the spirit of a place that is both loved and hated for various, often overlapping reasons. The body of work presented in this exhibition ranges from silkscreen prints and projections to three dimensional objects, created, collected and developed by the artists. For JANA+KOOS & Prins, GOLD in the context of a collaborative exhibition, serves as a platform to express some of the work and ideas that they have been accumulating and experimenting with over the past year. “We have a deep-rooted love and fascination for Johannesburg and all its quirks, and this project is inspired by our interaction with this city as the place we stay, work and play in. It is a combination of design, art and illustration, silkscreen and digital prints, video and three dimensional objects. The only prerequisite we kept to, was to retain the color palette used by each to black, white and gold and thus allow for the different styles, interpretations and techniques we use in our work, to inform the final outcome. The end result is a vastly different take and execution, with something for everyone to appreciate about the city of gold (and it's gold diggers).” Jana + Koos’ prints use conceptual vantage points interpreted through a range of different mediums and techniques including photographic digital manipulation, street inspired typography, graphic design, sourcing and styling. The silkscreens presented by Adele Prins in this exhibition developed out of a digital manipulation of ink sketches in combination with letterpress printing blocks which are influenced by her interest in book design and historic printing methods, with which she now creates new Joburg memoirs.

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A collaborative exhibition of works by JANA+KOOS and Adele Prins ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Jana+Koos : Un.creative is a creative collaboration of two designers/art directors that studied information design at University of Pretoria (TUKS) and started their careers in advertising. After a few years and some big campaigns later, they decided to take a different approach to working as creatives and started their own studio. This allows them to work on advertising, strategic concepts development, graphic design, information design and mapping, illustration and collaborative art projects. Everything they do, be it purely visual executions or large extended brand campaigns are driven by concept. They believe in ideas and in trying new things, in cross-pollinating and in having some fun. Since starting their own endeavor they have worked on various brands and with various design and advertising agencies, locally and internationally. Their new project based, media agnostic approach to creative work allows them the flexibilty to work on projects that include anything from strategic creative concepts for big brands to artwork and designs for smaller brands/clients as well as initiatives and interesting projects. See their website www.janaandkoos.com to see more work.

Adele Prins is the Art Director and owner of PRINS, a graphic design studio, thats been in existence for twelve years and based in Johannesburg. Adele holds a BAFA & HonsFA in Information design from the University of Pretoria. Her philosophy and aesthetic sensibility is focused on creating work with meaning, and can be seen in her iconographic book design, art-posters, websites as well as in her interest in non-profit design work whose focus is on humanitarian issues. She is committed to promoting culture and all the different art forms ranging from visual arts, music, dance etc. In addition to her design work, she is also a fine artist, that works in various mediums ranging from drawing with pen & ink, and charcoal to oils and photography. This is her second exhibition. She had her first photographic solo exhibition Travesías: imágenes de México, at the Market Theatre Gallery in 2006. Adele’s work can be viewed at www.prinsdesign.co.za

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