Interruption: Imaging a Sense of Place Quinten Edward Williams 18.08.2018 - 29.09.2018
What happens when human and non-human bodies interrupt one another? Forces clash and they shape or re-shape parts of our experienced world. Williams’s work explores the moment when objects, plants, animals and people interact in a complex dance, and cause an interruption in the relationship that existed before. Within the artist’s constellation of ideas, an interruption means a body taking a position, often beyond language, but always through a relationship of affect on the body. Capturing this moment in a work of art can give the artist – and the viewer – access to the lived and sensed quality of places. Sometimes the work stirs a memory of something familiar, and sometimes a sense of encountering something previously unknown. In this showcase we feature unique works, including paintings and sketches, alongside editioned prints which were made in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop. This selection of works presents a progression of the artist’s practice over a period of three years. Williams said the following about his work: “My paintings and prints are sketches for each other. Like sketches, they capture aspects of what I am working with, and elements are transposed, and shifted, from the one into the other.” In Interruption: Imaging a Sense of Place we see a slowly evolving subject matter driven by Williams’s mark-making, by his layering of forms and lines, vibrant sometimes jarring - colours, and translucent and opaque application of colour. We see a slippage between abstraction and figuration as the artist grapples with his task of imaging a sense of place not necessarily seen. Williams’s work, removed from their place of origin in Johannesburg and curated for Montebello Design Centre, tells a story about experiencing moments in the world, and through the image, opening a moment felt.
Structure and laceration 2017 Painting, Acrylic on canvas 150 x 150cm R 28 290.00 incl VAT.
Fortressing
2017 Painting, Acrylic on canvas 101 x76 cm R 19 205.00 incl VAT.
A site across the road at around 9 PM 2017 Painting, Acrylic on canvas 101 x76 cm R 28 255.50 incl VAT.
Pendent 3 Pendent 2
2015 Painting, Acrylic on canvas 140 x 170 cm R 28 290.00 incl VAT.
2015 Painting, Acrylic on canvas 200 x 161 cm R 34 316.00 incl VAT.
Crossing over
2017 Painting, Acrylic on canvas 138 x 112 cm R 36 731.00 incl VAT.
Expend
2016 Painting, Acrylic on canvas 138 x 112 cm R 28 255.50 incl VAT.
Plain with roads
Walls
Stepping out an area
2017 BeeswaxDammar ResinPigment on Awagami Bamboo Printmaking 110gsm 76 x 56cm
2017 BeeswaxDammar ResinPigment on Awagami Bamboo Printmaking 110gsm 76 x 56cm
R 9 573.00 incl VAT, Framed
R 9 573.00 incl VAT, Framed
R 9 573.00 incl VAT, Framed
2017 BeeswaxDammar ResinPigment on Awagami Bamboo Printmaking 110gsm 76 x 56cm
Untitled (White)
Untitled (Black and Grey)
R 3 036.00 incl VAT, unframed | R 3 500.00 incl VAT, framed
R 5 750.00 incl VAT, unframed | R 7 400.00incl VAT, framed
2015 Drypoint and Coloured Chine Collé Hahnemühle Sugarlift Aquatint 36 x 40 cm Edition Size: 15
2016 Drypoint and Coloured Chine Collé Hahnemühle Sugarlift Aquatint 60 x 60 cm Edition Size: 15
For enquiries please contact: elize@davidkrut.com l t. +27 (0)21 685 0676 David Krut Projects Cape Town Montebello Design Centre, 31 Newlands Avenue, Newlands, Cape Town, 7700
Choke Point
2014 Chine CollĂŠ, Hardground and Sugarlift Aquatint 36 x 37.5 cm Edition Size: 15 R 4 025.00incl VAT, unframed | R 5 315.00 incl VAT, framed