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rosenclaire / Speechless / 2018

03 March - 06 April 2018
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

Goodman Gallery Cape Town 3 March – 6 April 2018

Speechless marks rosenclaire’s fourth solo exhibition at Goodman Gallery in which Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky question the power of words to represent and relate to our surroundings.

In the words of the artists: ‘this exhibition registers an inability to comprehend and articulate the political, social and ecological crises experienced around the world today. This implies the breakdown of all secure structures including language, communication and materiality itself. We approach the ‘unspeakable’ from a position of warning but also of wonder.’

Artworks

Ink jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 110 x 75 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 30 x 20 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 30 x 20 cm
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Ink Jet print on Hahnemuhle paper
Work: 20 x 30 cm
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Pastel on TNT spun fiber
Work: 130 x 90 cm
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Aluminium, enamel paint
Variable Dimensions
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Potted Spathiphyllum plants, pedestals, and instructions with contract
Variable Dimensions
Corten steel base with oil on plaster, cloth and resin
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Oil on cotton
Work: 200 x 100 cm
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Oil on linen
Work: 160 x 100 cm
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Pastel on TNT spun fiber
Work: 130 x 90 cm
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Pastel on TNT spun fiber
Work: 130 x 90 cm
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Pastel on TNT spun fiber
Work: 130 x 90 cm
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Pastel on TNT spun fiber
Work: 130 x 90 cm
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Set of nine drawings in ink and tempura on paper with titles adhered
Each work : 25 x 32 cm Work: 100 x 122 cm
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About

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rosenclaire

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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