117 Long Street
Cape Town
Tuesday – Friday
10:00 – 16:00
Saturday
10:00 – 14:00
Nel is a new gallery on the corner of Long Street and Church Street – owned and directed by artist Luan Nel, alongside his partner and spouse Neil Pendock. The main feature of the new space is the Salon Long – an ongoing group exhibition or ‘hang’ that is constantly changing and evolving.
Nel Gallery will be opening Hentie Van Der Merwe's solo exhibition 'Shooting Selves' online at 17:00 onwards on Thursday 2 July 2020.
A body of new work, drawings, completed over the last twelve months, this after taking a five-year break from his studio practice. In these drawings the artist picks up a theme he dealt with in the last solo exhibition back in 2013 at the AVA in Cape Town. Entitled Selfshots, the exhibition consisted of blurry images of re- photographed self shots he downloaded from the internet. In these photographs the individuals' features are lost and compromised through the blurring process, resulting in a uniformity of faces and anonymity. In the new drawings there is a very different approach. In these the focus is on each individual’s intense interaction with his own image on the screen of his cell phone.
We are excited to show these works online as the work engages so strongly with its online subjects, inadvertently Hentie Van Der Merwe has created the perfect online exhibition to be experienced online, adding another layer to the exhibition, one that brings the audience very much into the frame of the subject.
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