Wynwood Art walk: Opening

2009 April 7

tags: Alette Simmons-Jimenez, anja marais, ARTformz, Chieko Tanemura, Wynwood art walk

by Anja Marais

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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Wynwood Art District 2nd Saturday Gallery Walk
7:00pm – 10:00pm

Show Dates: April 11 – May 5, 2009

TRIOS:
Anja Marais, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Chieko Tanemura
Three gallery artists present recent work. Marais works with haunting animistic images from folklore of her native South Africa and will show new work in soft sculpture using drawing and sewn paper. Simmons-Jimenez will exhibit a piece created specifically for the project room along with other new works, in various media, that adress man’s paradoxical relationship to nature and technology through the interaction of line, form, and space. Tanemura’s new series of photographic images titled “Melisa at 19″ uses nostalgic objects as metaphors in contrast with modern lifestyles as she continues to explore coming of age imagery in young women.

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“False Security” Anja Marais’ interactive installation on loan from Sculpture Key West – 1 Night Only (Saturday 11th)!
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2009 April 13

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The show was GREAT Saturday! Baie Geluk!

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Anja Marais creates soft sculpture from . . .

multi layers of charcoal drawings and paper. She uses paper and fabric consciously breaking away from the hard materials of traditional sculpture. She deliberately rejects those masculine materials and shapes for feminine ones. She exchange her welder for a needle and thread to assemble her sculptures.
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She works with Victorian colonial images . . .

that she combines with animistic elements of African folklore’s mysterious deities and gods. By using haunting animistic images from folklore an unreal reality is formed that contains the movement between the natural and supernatural, and addresses isolation and threat. She creates playful childlike images that comes across as light and humorous but on closer investigation you will find a paradox in title, theme and mood that is far more threatening and unsettling.
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“Paper is the source of All, the Plan, the Map and the Poet. It’s from paper that we got the Book, the Kite, and the Gods” (carnival song in Uruguay
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"Marais uses non-traditional materials to celebrate a non-western cultural tradition. No wonder we stop and gape at these beautiful, exotic and momentarily disturbing shapes and images." - Joel Blair for Solares Hill. Feb 2008.
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“The interior of West Martello Tower offered a sympathetic home to Anja Marais’s pair of suspended, tight-laced, full-skirted gowns. Constructed out of paper dress patterns and covered with drawings that illustrate an enigmatic folktale from Marais’s native South Africa, they suavely combined feminist and other political imagery.” - Karen Wilkin for "Art in America" 2009
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"Other garden visitors were surprised to find me on my hand and knees, pervertedly looking under the skirts of Anja Marais' "The woman That Changed into a Tree." I was looking for some type of mechanism that might be moving the dresses but it was just the wind. And the effect was just as haunting as she intended." - Sara Matthis for 'Locals Guide' March 2008.
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Artists I exhibited with:
- Alejandro Mendoza-sculptor
- Alette Simmons Jimenez-multi media
- Blane de St Croix-sculptor
- Frank Hyder-multi media
- Gustavo Acosta-painter
- J. Rudi Repenning-woodwork
- Jose Bedia-painter
- Karley Klopfenstein-sculptor
- Karlis Rekevics-sculptor
- Roy Staab-environmental art
- Shari Schemmel-painter
- Tomas Esson-multi media
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