Exhibition Works

Lockdown series

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Kay Fourie

Exhibition:
2019 New Breed Winners Group Exhibition

Details:
Signed
Reduction Lino prints on Rosapina Fabriano
Print size: 20x20 cm, paper size 32 x 35 cm

Price:
R800 each with frame, R600 each for unframed prints

Description:
Each of these Lino prints depicts five different objects: strange abstract objects that are personifications of wind/spirit. Spirit and wind has been intertwined in the human mind for many centuries, because both are equally ‘unseen’. One sees, hears and experiences only the result of its force, not the thing itself.

When the danger of Covid-19 struck South Africa by April 2020, I was working on these strange shapes and sculpted them in paper mache. In the meantime an innocent visitor from Columbia was trapped in the country and on our farm due to lockdown. Watching him scheming to go back and longing for his loved ones and fighting for his sanity inspired me to ‘lock’ these shapes into imaginary enclosed spaces. Hence the Spanish names for each shape: Aliento (Asem), Aire (Lug and Ciclon (Sikloon).

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