Omba Gallery is
proud to host a solo exhibition of recent works by Nicky Marais. Her first in five
years, the exhibition is scheduled to run from Monday, 2nd December 2013 to Sunday, 22nd December 2013. The nature
of non-representational fine art with its conscious departure in the depiction
of imagery from recognisable objects and visual references in the world, results
in art bearing no trace of reference to anything recognisable.
The past fifteen
years have seen Nicky Marais’ work follow an increasingly non-representational
trajectory. Colour, shape and line combine
on paper and canvas to create paintings of formidable intensity. She expresses
an obsession with the random patterns
of contemporary urban life sharply contrasted with the orderly patterns of natural objects, the underlying premise for the
artwork at this exhibition. The artworks express her fascination with not only pattern
but also the movement created by
juxtaposing different shapes in repetition, in a variety of complex
compositions.
('Small Books' by Nicky Marais)
Very large and very
small works by Marais will be exhibited at Omba Gallery with the intention to
recreate for the observer, the contrast
and tension she uses as subject matter in the works. The exhibition also
includes ‘Small Books’ of art,
visual records substantiating the inner force compelling Marais to constantly
create.
The exhibition will
be opened by Immaculate Mogotsi,
coordinator of and lecturer in the Multi-disciplinary Research Centre (UNAM)
and Chairperson of the Board (Sister Namibia). Nicky Marais is currently the
head of the Department of Visual Art and Craft College of The Arts (COTA), in
Windhoek. This exhibition will be her seventh solo exhibition and her first in five years.
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