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Selected Artworks

Acrylic on cotton
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Acrylic on cotton
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Oil on linen
Work: 37 x 60 cm
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Oil on linen
Work: 60 x 100 cm
Oil on cotton
Work: 130 x 190 cm
Potted Spathiphyllum plants, pedestals, and instructions with contract
Variable Dimensions
Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Aluminium, enamel paint
Variable Dimensions
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Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 30 x 20 cm
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Oil on linen
Work: 160 x 100 x 2.5 cm
Oil on linen
Work: 160 x 100 x 2.5 cm

About

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Born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Live and work in Florence, Italy

Claire Gavronsky (b. 1957, Johannesburg) works in a variety of mediums, most notably in painting and sculpture. Her work often uses visual references to historical paintings, and cues are sometimes taken from events from everyday life. Memory, racism, violence against women and children are some of the themes which run through her oeuvre.

Notable solo and group exhibitions include: Io e Me. Autoritratti nel Lockdown. Sala 1, Centro Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2021); Speechless with Rose Shakinovsky, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (2018); Right to the Future, Museum of 20th and 21st Century Art, St Petersburg (2017); Colour Theory with Rose Shakinovsky, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (2014); Dakar Biennale, Dakar (2010); and Dystopia, collaboration with William Kentridge, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Ghent (2009-2010).

Rose Shakinovsky’s (b. 1953, Johannesburg) work defies any stylistic category as it consists of work that ranges from the re-presentation and decontextualization of found objects, found images and found situations, to delicately painted abstractions and ironic bronzes. The work concerns itself with current political and social discourses while simultaneously referencing and reconstructing art historical edifices. Her present research is concerned with discourses pertaining to the posthuman, transhuman and the consequences of climate change.

Notable solo and group exhibitions include: Io e Me. Autoritratti nel Lockdown. Sala 1, Centro Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2021); Speechless with Claire Gavronsky, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (2018); Right to the Future, Museum of 20th and 21st Century Art, St Petersburg (2017); COLORI: L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (2017); Assessing Abstraction, South African National Gallery (2017); Colour Theory with Rose Shakinovsky, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (2014); Dakar Biennale, Dakar (2010).

Shakinovsky collaborates with Gavronsky as the artist “rosenclaire”, as wives and as dedicated mentors who have run a renowned artists residency program in Tuscany for the past 30 years.

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Exhibitions

London Gallery
08 February - 16 March 2024
London Gallery
08 February - 16 March 2024

Press & News

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Claire Gavronsky is featured in the latest title in Phaidon’s Vitamin series of contemporary art books, which is a survey of important contemporary drawing brought together by leading experts in th...

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Works by Gavronsky and Shakinovsky are included on the group exhibition, Right to the Future, at the Museum of the 20th and 21st Century in St. Petersburg (25 October – 3 December). The exhibition ...