Group Exhibition –
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF PAINTING IN THE MIND OF AN ARTIST THAT MAY DIE TOMORROW

10.10.20 – 27.10.20
Group Exhibition at
Kalashnikovv Gallery,
Johannesburg

Craig Smith
Khaya Witbooi
Robyn Pretorius
Samson Mnisi
Sue Pam-Grant

The title of the exhibition references Damien Hirst's seminal work "the physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living" as this point of theoretical departure seems to be even more relevant if not poignant in these unprecedented times.

Considering the current state of the world, artists are contemplating the big questions behind mortality and the purpose of art-making. This question is made ever more reflexive when posed at a time of heightened hysteria, anxiety, uncertainty and potential chance to lose one's life at any given moment.

This group exhibition intends to interrogate the emotional states of a cross-section of exceptional painters from different generational viewpoints and backgrounds who have been working steadily throughout the lockdown months.

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