The drain of progress : a catalogue raisonné, 2004-2007
Texte imprimé
- Auteurs : Blom Zander ;
- Editeurs : Johannesburg, South Africa Rooke Gallery ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2007
- ISBN : 978-0-620-39262-4, 0-620-39262-2
- Sujets : Art -- Expositions -- Afrique du Sud 21e siècle, Modernisme (art), Blom, Zander -- Expositions
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (208 p.), : Ill. en noir et en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : Afrique du Sud
Notes
Edition limitée à 300 ex. ; Exposition du 20 septembre au 8 décembre 2007 ; 13 errata insérés à diverses pages ; Bibliogr. p. 203-204
Résumé
This exhibition comprises a set of one off photographs, drawings, paintings and prints and includes the launch of Zander's first book/Catalogue Raisonné (The Drain of Progress) that provides a unique view of a stage set upon which Zander's ongoing modernist experiment occurs. With the highest degree of sincerity Zander Blom questions the personal relevance and motives of the modernist visual artists before him. How did it feel to be the true 'avant-garde'? Moreover, of what personal relevance is Modernism when viewed as a series of cultural movements that stretch back as far as the 1890's ? His investigation of modernism is much like a child being presented with a watch, and in order to understand it - he immediately takes it apart