Exploring Involvement
by
Willem Truter
18 October 2024
"In my current exhibition 'Exploring Involvement' I address, with charcoal on paper, involvement in its widest context, physical, practical, social and emotional.
To give visual expression to this I use scenes from a variety of activities like sport, dancing, socialising, etc. Attention is given to human movement and interaction and consequently I present a varied perspective on the lasting bond between people and the environment."
Willem Truter was born in Durban in 1951 and matriculated in 1968 in Port Elizabeth. After military service in 1969, he enrolled for the BA (Fine Arts) at the University of Pretoria. After graduation in 1973, he obtained the Higher Education Diploma at the end of 1974.
During his two final years at UP he received a strong grounding in realism as well as abstract art. He became familiar with the work of the American Abstract Expressionist movement and especially two of its main exponents, Robert Rauschenberg and Joan Mitchell. This resulted in the latter years in a mixture of a lesser to high degree of figurative and abstract elements. Currently he keenly observes the work of Adrian Ghenie and Albert Oehlen.
From 1975 to the present he was and is professionally involved in various disciplines of art. He taught for several years, was involved in magazine and book layout, book and commercial illustrations in various styles, and graphic design.
He worked for Republican Press in Durban, and in Johannesburg for Perskor and advertising agency Hyams Mortimer Tiley. He also worked for SABC television in the News Graphics department.
Illustration involvement in a children's factual book on birds for Daan Retief Publishers, Pretoria, and a cover design for a book on the Anglo-Boer War stimulated a great interest in both topics till today.
Truter has had many solo and group exhibitions in Gauteng. In Johannesburg, amongst others, he had a solo and a three person exhibition with the Visual Art Foundation in Melville in 1994 and 1995 respectively.
His first solo with the Association of Arts, Pretoria was in 2003.
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