INVITATION TO THE DANCE - Nicolaas Maritz

N I C ONL IACAOSL AMAAS RMI A TR ZITZ

I N V I TAT I O N INVITATION TO TO THE T H E DANCE DANCE 2021

MARITZ MUSEUM

NICOLAAS MARITZ

INVITATION TO THE DANCE ONLINE EXHIBITION / 2021

Nemesia*Press_online 2021

Contents Introduction 1. LINE DANCES 2. PASO DOBLE PRINTS 3. WEST COAST VIEWS 4. WEST COAST DRAWINGS 5. CONTACT

Introduction LINE DANCES Dancing is very energizing. As you move around, responding to whichever kind of music, lines of movement across the floor are created, which if charted, may very well look like one of my new LINE DANCE paintings, the energy value of each separate movement recorded in a different colour.

Dancing is also celebratory. Nothing beats dancing for giving one a feeling of being physically part of the excitement of some festivity. To be able to dance with gay abandon is to approach a liberation of all the senses. We should all dance much more…may I suggest the paso doble!

WEST COAST VIEWS If the nature of dancing is lively and energizing, then being next to the ocean is calming and restorative. Apparently the invigorating salt air has got to do with negative ions or something I can’t seem to remember for the moment.

Looking at the ocean is contemplative. One’s own mood responds to the changeable mood swings of the sea. It’s all very elemental and powerful; a sort of existential balm. Where dancing almost automatically enlarges the projection of self, being by the ocean reduces your size to something human and smaller. It feels very normalizing, if that means anything anymore. But somehow it is quite as immersive and re-assuring as a good bit of dancing...

Nicolaas Maritz, Darling, July 2021

L I N E D A N C E PA I N T I N G S

1. GAVOTTE I, 2021, enamel paint on canvas. Two panels. 405 x 610mm

2. GAVOTTE II, 2021, enamel paint on canvas. Two panels. 405 x 610mm

3. SLOW WALTZ, 2021, enamel paint on canvas. Two panels. 405 x 610mm.

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FOXTROT, 2021, enamel paint on board. 610 x 610mm.

5. FANDANGO I, 2021, enamel paint on board. 640 x 1220mm.

6. FANDANGO II, 2021, enamel paint on board. 640 x 1170mm.

7. SHIMMY I, 2021, enamel paint on canvas Three panels. 405 x 913mm.

8. SHIMMY II, 2021, enamel paint on canvas. Three panels. 405 x 913mm.

9. MAZURKA, 2021, enamel paint on canvas. Three panels. 405 x 913mm.

10. TWO STEP, 2021, enamel paint on canvas. 610 x 915mm.

11. QUADRILLE, 2021, enamel paint on canvas. Four panels. 1225 x 1850mm.

12. RIELDANS I, 2021, enamel paint on board. 610 x 1102mm.

13. RIELDANS II, 2021, enamel paint on board. 619 x 1102mm.

14. RHUMBA, 2021, enamel paint on board. 1220 x 980mm.

15. HIGHLAND FLING I, 2021, enamel paint on board. 762 x 1220mm.

16. HIGHLAND FLING II, 2021, enamel paint on board. 762 x 1220mm.

PA S O D O B L E P R I N T S No.17 - PASO DOBLE, 2021, digital drawings

A composite18-print installation, with each printed image fitted to an A1 papersize, allowing for artist’s signature and framing. Available in a limited giclee art print edition of 5. Signed bottom right with edition and print numbers indicated bottom left.

Sold as a complete set of unframed prints. Framing choices are left to the discernment of the buyer.

To be hung either as a total piece, three down and six across, about 5 - 7cm apart, or alternatively as two matching pieces of 9 prints each.

Total size approximately 1,334 x 3,675 metres CAUTION: No paper works should ever be hung in direct sunlight.

WEST COAST VIEWS

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BRIGHT AND DARK, 2013/4, enamel paint on board. 1300 x 1220mm.

19. SALT AND WIND, 2013/4, enamel paint on board. 820 x 1220mm.

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SEASONAL CHANGE, 2013/4, enamel paint on board. 1245 x 1220mm.

21. COLOUR AND GREY, 2013/4, enamel paint on board. 820 x1220mm.

22.

RHYTM AND BLUES, 2013/4, enamel paint on board.

1140 x 1220mm.

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FAR AND NEAR, 2013.4, enamel paint on board. 1300 x 1220mm.

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LOUD AND SOFT, 2013/4, enamel paint on board. 1220 x 1140mm.

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RESTLESS AND CALM, 2013/4, enamel paint on board. 1220 x 1140mm.

26. SPECKLED AFTERNOON, 2013/4, enamel paint on plywood panel. 660 x 1220mm.

27. LIVELY MORNING, 2013/4, enamel paint on plywood panel. 600 x 1220mm.

WEST COAST DRAWINGS No.28 - WEST COAST MOODS, 2021, digital drawings A composite 24-print seascape installation, with each printed image A2 size.

Paper size somewhat larger, allowing for artist ’s signature and framing.

Available in a limited giclee art print edition of 5. Signed bottom right with edition and print numbers indicated bottom left.

Sold as a complete set of unframed prints. Framing choices are left to the discernment of the buyer.

To be hung either as a total piece, four down and six across, about 5 - 7cm apart, or alternatively as two matching pieces of 12 prints each, in the arrangement indicated on the next pages.

Total size approximately 1.8 x 4 metres CAUTION: No paper works should ever be hung in direct sunlight.

C O N TA C T Should you be interested in purchasing any of the works in this catalogue, please let me know via email bignick098@gmail.com Price list available on request.

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