Exhibition by Ian Waldeck and Pieter Swanepoel at Worldart

The Worldart gallery will be hosting an exhibition by artists Ian Waldeck and Pieter Swanepoel, titled Landscape. With this exhibition the artists intend to challenge our understanding of the landscape as an art form.

A landscape is generally understood to portray the land’s visible features as well as living, abstract and human elements and the impact they have.

In typical Waldeck style, his chosen tool to explore the landscape is anarchy. The anatomy of the painting is used to illustrate his disgust at the plagues that keep torturing our landscapes. “I found the slashing and crunching that went with the creation of these works very liberating,” he says.

Swanepoel again, has a minimalist approach. His works are characterised by layering of used canvases and varnish. Visually and conceptually this changes the landscape as we know it leaving the onlooker with a new abstract view. But his modern approach never disregards the familiarity of the surroundings we know..
Where: The Worldart Gallery, 95 Commissioner Street (Between Rissik and Loveday Streets)..
When: 6pm on Saturday 19 July 2008. Exhibition closes 16 August 2008.

For more information, contact charl@worldart.co.za, on 011 492 0074 or 082 901 5045, or visit www.worldart.co.za