PRESS RELEASE
GUY FERRER | Rituals
Feb 11 – Apr 8, 2023
GUY FERRER
RITUALS
Everard Read Franschhoek is proud to present a new exhibition by Guy Ferrer entitled RITUALS.
11 February – 8 April
Everard Read at Leeu Estates
Please join us on Saturday the 11th of February at 11AM to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
To be added to the catalogue waiting list please click HERE.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“The recent residency in South Africa offered to me by the Everard Read Gallery has been a memorable period of creation, which has seen the making of large works after research carried out for several years on the use of gold.
My artistic project has consisted of creating large-scale museum-like murals, composed of various bands of fabrics covered with nuanced layers of gold.
To me, gold is fascinating. Both matter and light, it evokes the sacred in many past or present traditions, either mystical or profane. As a mythical material, gold is the king amongst metals - powerful because of its symbolic and material value. Immutable, it speaks of the sublime and the radiant, the sun and eternity, and embodies the spiritual quest.
Gold seems to carry the light and it never rusts. It is fetishized and has great intrinsic worth.
For these reasons, gold has captivated artists from the remotest antiquity to contemporary times and its symbolism, sometimes paradoxical, has interested me for many years.
The “Stripes Series” is made of cut and painted strips meticulously mounted in order to compose large panels.
They form textile architectures and like mosaics, these compositions/collages float on the wall as tapestries, or in open spaces like flat sculptures or stage curtains.
These works were composed in a kind of active meditation. They move away from the physicality and gestures of painting in favor of a calmer and intellectual conception.”
- Guy Ferrer, January 18, 2023
Everard Read at Leeu Esates
Leeu Estates, Dassenberg Road, Franschhoek
Opening times: Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 17:00
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