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2011 / DAVID KRUT PROJECTS / JOHANNESBURG
Using diluted oil paint and ink, the rhythm of my own breathing, a plastic pipette, and fine German Hahnemühle paper, I left representation and figuration behind. […] Blowing paint onto paper is a tricky business. I hovered in each moment, balanced precariously on a tightrope between accident and intent, beauty and ugliness. In a split second, a lovely, evocative stain could metastasize into a big, unlovely tumour, or an insignificant nothing would mysteriously bloom into something I couldn’t quite put my finger on, something I quite liked...
Alexandra Ross, Excerpt from Somewhere I Have Traveled, Gladly Beyond, Classic Feel Magazine, 2011
FULL TEXT & REVIEWS https://www.alexandra-ross.com/press-1/1-1-2011
Exhibition poster designed by the artist
Dawn, 2011, oil on paper, 28 x 31 cm
Flamingo, 2011, digital print, 42 x 29.7 cm
Blue Madonna, 2011, oil on paper, 118.9 x 84.1 cm
Curly, 2011, oil on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm
Untitled, 2011, oil on paper, 72 x 107.2 cm
Macaroni, 2011, oil on paper, 42 x 29.7 cm
Photo Paris Brummer, 2011
Installation view, 2010, 7th Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin (Germany)
Installation view, 2010, 7th Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin (Germany)
Studio view, 2010, Berlin
Studio view, 2010, Berlin
Mote, 2010, oil on paper, 42 x 42 cm
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization, Achille Mbembe, Wits University Press (2021). Cover design, Carina Comrie. Cover art, Alexandra Ross, Out of the Dark Night, 2011.