JAN-HENRI BOOYENS
2013-06-17Booyens’ work is often described in terms of a struggle between the representational and abstract, the rational and chaotic. An affinity and critical engagement with Modernism is coupled with his relationship to the South African landscape, both social and physical.
For his latest work, Booyens has affected subtle iconographic shift from forms that allude of the art historical ‘landscape’ to those of the ‘still life’. Booyens’s flower like-forms explode in abstract compositions and assemblages of studio detritus, where form and colour fracture and falter in 70s impasto kitch, Stella stripes, colour supernovas and jpeg disintegration.
Exhibition runs through to July 6th, 2013
Blank Projects
113-115 Sir Lowry road
Woodstock
Cape Town
South Africa
