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Morné Visagie @ WHATIFTHEWORLD

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courtesy of
WHATIFTHEWORLD

CREDITS /

September 11, 2015

2-TIMES · Art
— 
Morné Visagie,
'The Line of
Beauty'

 

Born:
1979.

Nationality:
South African.

Specialties:
Collages 

Installations.

Title reference:
'The Line of 
Beauty' alludes
to both the
aesthetic theories
of William Hogarth, 
and to a novel
of the same
name by Alan
Hollinghurst.

The exhibition:
continues Visagie’s
negotiation of
abstraction and
representation,
the explicit
and the implied,
presence and
absence, and
of a melancholic
longing.

Details:

African
Blackwood,
marble, an 
elaborate flower
arrangement,
rich colours
and gold ink,
highly-polished
brass and
copper plates.

2-TIMES' series
highlights
:
From "Collapsing
Sunset"
— The Abandonment
of Romance X
 
&
— The Abandonment
of Romance IX
 
From "A Brief
Introduction to
the Monarchy
of Colour"
— The Seduction 
of Blue I 

On view at: 
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Cape Town
.

Closes:
September 12, 2015.