Large, raw and expressive charcoal drawings in contrast with small, colourful and eccentric oil paintings. Two artists with the same starting point: mug shots. These photos are collected from police archives but (intentional or unintentionally) often distributed by the media.
Humor versus bitter seriousness.
Du Toit and Laperdrix met in 2018 at the Cultural Hotspot, De Nijverheid, where they rent adjacent ateliers.
This exhibition is closed. This is showing at EXbunker now:
Aug 1
Aug 30
Thomas L. Fontein
Every day the same game repeats itself, at the same time and place as yesterday, just with different players. Your body gets absorbed into the flow of the rush hour, while your mind is disconnected. As the train leaves the station, you take your seat in the midst of absent gazes. ‘the escalator is always rolling’ is an exploration of the mental numbness of repetition, predictability and the drag of going somewhere that doesn't fulfill you.