Studio Clearance sale 2021
a group exhibition
18 June 2021
André Naude, Erna Bodenstein, Jacques du Preez, Marna Schoeman, Michael Sarjeant, Rogerio de Andrade, Thelma van Rensburg, Wilna Panagos
All the artworks are for sale.
If you are interested in purchasing any of the works, please email us at
artlovers1932@gmail.com
or click for purchase enquiry below any specific artwork
The prices exclude shipping
and arrangements can be made for paying off any purchases, interest free, over a reasonable period of time.
Marna Schoeman
Marna Schoeman gets her inspiration from the rich diversity of life, as well as humans, plants and animals, and she tries to see beauty and life everywhere around her, even in mundane scenes like riding in the bus or mowing the lawn.
"Although I grew up in a very traditional Afrikaans household I have always been fascinated by Eastern religion and philosophy. It might have had something to do with the fact that my father must have been the only person I know to actually buy info-booklets from Hare Krishna! These wonderfully illustrated gems thus landed on our bookshelf.
When bored as a child, I would lie down on my bed with a pile of these books, and was dazzled by these highly decorative and exotic images of beautiful benign cattle and strange blue deities with rosy, upturned hand palms.
These fantastic, detailed images were imprinted into my psyche from a very early age and found its way into my artistic expression and influenced my style as an adult.
Hindu history, mythology and philosophy still fascinate me and its visual approach still feeds into my style.
My aim is to instill a sense of joy and wonder in the viewer ... and a chuckle, of course, as humour is an essential ingredient in my work."
Schoeman studied BA Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria and graduated in 1986.
Marna uses mainly gouache and acrylic on artists board and her paintings have been taken up in private collections as far affield as the USA and Ireland.
Marna Schoeman
"Nude female figure with see-through nightie and strange pet"
Acrylic on wood panel
42cm x 50cm
Framed
R 2 100
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Marna Schoeman
"Still life with porcelain swan and carved figure from the Congo"
Acrylic and oil on wood panel
42cm x 30cm
R 1 750
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Marna Schoeman
"Penkop en Niggie"
Print on canvas
56cm x 42cm
Unframed
SOLD
Michael Sarjeant
The work of Michael Sarjeant (19 May 1933 - 11 Oct 2014), shown for the first time, posthumously, in 2019 at Art Lovers 1932. Wistful and moving work, and full of longing. The recurring female form filling his vision and the canvas.
Sarjeant experimented with a variety of approaches, the brushstrokes often richly applied, but occasionally delicate and clean, many works strongly reminiscent of Chagall and the interiors of Van Gogh. On occasion suggesting a secret surrealist, perhaps an early Miró, the manipulated scale of Yves Tanguy.
Two hundred and twenty-four paintings left behind and fifty-eight drawings, the only remaining record of his thoughts and yearnings, his solitary and reclusive epilogue, his loneliness complete after the passing of his wife.
As Gustav Klimt said: 'Whoever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures.'
"Hodgins managed to get a grant of £20 a year from the Walls Sausage Trust, which was sufficient to supply paint and equipment for both himself and his friend, Michael Sarjeant, a young student considered by (John) Mansbridge the most brilliant at Goldsmith since Graham Sutherland."
Elizabeth Rankin (1986) 'Biographical Notes Based on Reminiscences of the Artist,' in Robert Hodgins: Images 1953-1986
Michael (Kirkman) Sarjeant was born in London, which is also where he studied at the School of Art at the University of London. He received his National Diploma in Design, with painting, special level, in 1953. According to John Mansbridge, his senior lecturer, 'he proved himself an artist of exceptional ability and achievement'.
It was also in London where he met his South African wife, Mary Gabrielle - Gaby, Gaye or Gub Gub to Michael - a fellow student of the arts. After their marriage they returned to Waterkloof in Pretoria, where Gaby hailed from, and where they remained for the rest of their lives.
Michael lectured at the University of Pretoria for a period of time, 'fully capable of teaching classes in Drawing, Painting, Modelling, The History of Art and Architecture, and allied subjects', as his senior lecturer commended.
Rogerio de Andrade
Rogerio de Andrade was born in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, in 1954. He came to South Africa in 1966, where he attended primary school in White River Primary and high school in Nelspruit (Lowveld High) in the old Eastern Transvaal. He finished high school in 1973, and carried on with his studies at the Pretoria Technikon where he obtained a diploma in Graphic Design in 1976. He graduated in 2015 with a Honours Degree in Graphic Design (Cum Laude) from the Tshwane University of Technology.
After two years in the army, he joined Turner, Venter and Machado in 1979 in Johannesburg, as a junior graphic designer. He worked in several design studios as both creative and art director, until his recent retirement from the industry. His time is now dedicated to his artwork. He exhibits regularly in a variety of galleries, and his drawings have become part of many private collections.
De Andrade's work has been influenced by his extensive experience in the Graphic Design industry and by a wealth of practical and visual experience in the related fields of illustration and cartooning. He likes to "invent" situations that are both mysterious and unorthodox. The ideas for his drawings come from a variety of everyday sources and combination of influences, which he explores, and turns into the slightly irrational. In the end it's all about having fun and adding life and magic to the work, no matter what the work means.
Thelma van Rensburg
Thelma van Rensburg's work explores female sexuality and how women are represented in the mass media concerning beauty or ugliness, issues of otherness and the Gaze. Her art making process is adventurous - ranging from mixed media, painting and drawing to digital work.
Throughout her work, van Rensburg aims to portray the masks that women use in order to be accepted by the contemporary society. These masks become an alternative "skin', distorting one's identity". In 2013 she started working with the female form as abject and grotesque to subvert fetishized representations of women in fashion photography. This interest progressed in her Masters research when she came upon a proliferation of fashion spreads that depicted women in passive states, such as dead or dying as pioneered by the French fashion photographer, Guy Bourdin. Her dissertation offers a feminist critique of the representation of women in the media and the partially biased construction of femininity. The focus is on the representation of women in contemporary fashion photography and visual texts, and specifically the way in which a link is constructed between femininity and death.
Van Rensburg was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1969. Van Rensburg always had an interest in art, but did not pursue it as a career until 2004. She has a B.A Honours degree in Physical education and Psychology. In 2004 she decided to enroll for a B.Tech degree in Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology which she completed in 2007. In 2013 she re-enrolled at the University of Pretoria for the final year of the BA degree in Fine Arts and completed the year cum laude. In 2016 she completed a Masters of Arts degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, titled Uneasy bodies, femininity and death: Representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks.
Since graduating, she has participated in eight solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions throughout South Africa. Her work has featured in prestigious competitions such as Sasol New Signatures, Thami Mnyele Fine Arts awards and the Sanlam Vuleka Arts competition. She also attended three artist residencies in Berlin and Mexico from 2015 to 2018.
Wilna Panagos
"My work documents the world via the unnoticed and insignificant, random as life itself and somewhat cryptic, little mannerisms of our lucky packet existence. I am a collector of the fleeting and inconsequential, of the secret shapes of our circular narrative, of the eternal recurrence of our small stories and the fragility of our diaphanous status quo. A Théâtre d'ombres on Plato's wall."
"I search for the song behind the apparent, between the layers of reality, collecting fragments, words. The pocket objects, the Aristotelian telescopes, the poetic lists, and the tiny shadows that they cast. I remove these objects from their original context and display them in new arrangements to comment on the human condition. These glimpses are all we have, and they are beautiful and terrible in their lack of magnitude."
Wilna Panagos studied Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria and participated in twenty-two group exhibitions, one duo and four solos. She sold a significant portion of her work to collectors in Switzerland and completed a triptych commissioned by Miratec for their foyer.
Five of her paintings were acquired by the Dept. of Science and Technology as a result of their competition for artwork for their new building.
Wilna Panagos
"a flamenco dancer looking at the sky"
Watercolour on paper
61cm x 61cm
Unframed
SOLD
Wilna Panagos
"one saguaro and one boggle machine"
Watercolour on paper
61cm x 61cm
Unframed
SOLD
Wilna Panagos
"raga means colour in its first language"
Oil on paper
61cm x 61cm
Unframed
SOLD
Wilna Panagos
"breathing sunshine and rain"
Oil on paper
60cm x 50cm
Unframed
SOLD
Wilna Panagos
"feats of juggling"
Oil on paper
61cm x 61cm
Unframed
SOLD
All the artworks are for sale.
If you are interested in purchasing any of the works, please email us at
artlovers1932@gmail.com
or click for purchase enquiry below any specific artwork
The prices exclude shipping
and arrangements can be made for paying off any purchases, interest free, over a reasonable period of time.
Art Lovers 1932
198 Long St. Waterkloof
Pretoria
South Africa
0181
Gallery Hours
Mon - Fri: 09h00 - 17h00, Sat: 09h00 - 13h00
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