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Die sleepmerke verander na elke bladsy en verdwyn uiteindelik uit die laaste bladsy. installasie (iets beeldhoukundig) te maak. He shares the excitement of the event with DIANE DE BEER who encourages those visiting the Centre, which again reopens on Heritage Day (September 24), to also check what’s left of the glorious art in the basement parking area:

“A basement is an underground space…the humblest of spaces specifically in the Javett: UP”, writes Pieter Mathews in the explanatory notes of The Sample Workshop, the catalogue documenting the guerrilla exhibition.

The war theme is also a tool through which personal demons could be exorcised: during the 1980’s I worked as an artist in the shows and exhibitions section of the then SADF, where I was exposed to a lot of visual material pertaining to the defense force, which I had to exhibit for propaganda purposes, along with posters and pamphlets designed by a team of artists.

In this work there is also a ‘war’ between the tactile, concrete quality of the coat and the ‘illusionism’ of the images on it.

This series of works culminated in four final sculptures in which the war theme is still prevalent but the images have become universal. In similar fashion, he paid homage to collaborating Swiss artists Fischilli/Weiss with a found composition of fire pipes scattered around the building site.

Another fascinating aspect of the experimental exhibition is what artists do when they know their work will probably disappear sooner rather than later.

The tin shirt and trousers also suggest an association with the armoured clothing of the medieval soldier knight. Ek het ook aan die idee van boekmerke of merke wat agtergelaat word as mens klaargelees het, gedink. These works do not only comment on that which has come to rest, but hint at the conception of something new.

The tin cans are ordinarily used for preservation.

In die installasie word ontwordelde bome gebruik en word herinner aan die siklus van boom-meubelstuk-papier-houtskool.

Werksproses:

Franci Greyling en Ian Marley van Noordwes-Universiteit het my in 2009 genooi om aan die boekeprojek vir die Woordfees, Stellenbosch, 2010, deel te neem. Although rivals and detractors of Laing’s career have claimed that the fossil is falsified, Laing’s outstanding academic credentials seem to solidly counteract these claims”.

Hong Kong based artist, Nazirite Tam (UP Alumnus) decided to go fake Pierneef (a la station panels).

The fragile rusted tins in these works become metaphors for waste, loss and consumerism. The desire to work with these materials, their shapes and textures, coupled with the images, memories and sentiments that they evoke serve as the starting point of the art making process.

In a solo exhibition held at the African Window Museum in May 1998 (the practical component of a Master’s degree study at the Technikon Pretoria), war and soldier images were conspicuous.

Some of these images where re-contextualized in art works in an ironic comment on my previous activities, also on the entire system, for example in the work ‘Final Inspection’ (1997). The works are stripped of the excess of collaged images and layers of materials of the previous series and each sculpture projects one essential image.

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