PRESS RELEASE
JACO ROUX | REFUGE
Oct 23 – Nov 15, 2021
JACO ROUX
Refuge
23rd October 2021 | 11h00 | 20 Huguenot Road, Franschhoek
Refuge is an exhibition of recent paintings where the artist revisits the wild places that inspire him the most – Kruger, and Mapungubwe, in the Limpopo Province.
“The deep love and respect he has for the land he selects to convey through his artworks are plain to see for anyone who stands before his work: marks that do not describe as much as evoke; colours that allude to, but do not slavishly replicate the ineffably ungraspable beauty of the open veld. The ‘naturalistic portrayals’ (if one can call them that for, as I have just argued they are more evocations of invocations of both sight and experience) of the beautiful open spaces of nature are severely juxtaposed with fields of raw colour and complex painterly compositions that owe nothing to the visuality of ‘surveying the field’ in a visual sense. Rather the ‘abstract’ layering he creates is a reflection of an experiential engagement with the world he inhabits, visits and admires. The balance between these elements creates a dialogue between us, the landscape and indeed the artist himself.” – Andrew Lamprecht
Exhibition concludes 15th NOVEMBER 2021
For more information please contact:
tayla@everard.co.za
lulu@everard.co.za
Everard Read Franschhoek
20 Huguenot Road
T: 021 867 2446
www.everard-read-franschhoek.co.za
fgallery@everard.co.za
