PRESS
RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE
FOUR – A GROUP EXHIBITION DOWNSTAIRS
AT 34 LONG FINE ART
2 DEC 2008 – 24 JAN 2009
34 Long Fine Art’s end-of-year show is defined by four distinct highlights: a large Kentridge etching in fourteen colours; a painting by Robert Hodgins; a diptych by Hush, hottest kid on the London block and, perhaps most dazzling of all, new works by
Faith47 and Motel7 who boast graffiti art all over Cape Town.
Hush may still be fairly unknown in South Africa but probably not for long. His imagery is an obsessive mix of elements from widely different sources, including Manga, American Pop, Urban art and everything else.
Vices, his work on this show, is a hand-painted, spray-painted, collaged mixed-media work.
Faith47 and Motel7, like Hush, work on the streets as graffiti artists as well as in the studio to produce a varied body of work.
Their images and techniques are anchored in the idioms and traditions of popular culture and street art.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light, an acrylic painting on
canvas by Motel7, taps into Latin-American religious iconography with a surprising twist of individuality. She
intends relocating from Cape Town to her native Norway in order to pursue an international career in
Urban art.
FOUR includes works by several other artists, amongst them Murakami,
Asha Zero and Catherine. The show celebrates not only the work of remarkable contemporary artists, but also 34 Long Fine Art’s four sensational years of art dealing in Cape Town’s city centre.
Adrian Köhler’s second solo show, BENEFIT OF DOUBT runs concurrently in the upstairs gallery.
