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Marianne Botha
Arrivals and Departures
4th-26th September 2004
‘Living in London highlights difference, longing and nostalgia.
As a resident foreigner one finds oneself culturally on the
fringes-never entirely rejected or completely accepted’
Marianne Botha is a young South African painter with a compelling
talent and a technical mastery usually found in much older practitioners.
Informed by an acute and sensitive interrogation of the work
of others, her paintings are both strongly rooted in the European
tradition of portraiture, and yet ruthlessly personal and present.
Fine drawing and audacious composition underpin a raw, punchy
paint quality.
Marianne’s work has always been concerned directly or
indirectly with identity; as a concept connected to heritage,
culture, genetics, education and environment. Pursuing the notion
of ‘portrait’, she looks beyond the face to gesture,
longing, ritual and place in order to begin to piece together
a more complex and layered identity.
In this body of work she focuses on fragmented self-portraits
and sky-scapes as markers for displacement and dislocation.
The intimacy of the truncated portraits juxtaposed with the
omnipresent and ever-changing skies, proposes an unsettling
and evocative visual commentary on these issues.
Trained at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, Marianne’s
work is held in numerous private collections in London, New
York, Eindhoven and South Africa. This is her first solo show
in London, and presages the emergence of a truly fine painter
onto the London art scene.
On Tuesday 21st September at 7.30pm Marianne will be in the
gallery to talk about her work, past and present. All welcome.
Exhibition runs until 26th September, Fri-Sun 12-6pm or by appointment.
T: 020 8357 2924 or visit: www.foveagallery.co.uk |
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