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Nico Krijno / The Constellation #017, 2022
Framed archival inkjet print with museumglass
Available in three sizes / Edition of 3 plus 1 AP |
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The Constellation |
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| 21 January - 4 March 2023 |
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| Opening: Saturday 21 January 2023, 5 ‐ 7pm |
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Nico Krijno / The Constellation #047, 2022
Framed archival inkjet print with museumglass
Available in three sizes / Edition of 3 plus 1 AP |
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| For our first exhibition of 2023, the Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present ‘The Constellation’ – a dizzying show of vibrant works by South African artist Nico Krijno (b. 1981). In a riot of colours and meandering forms, Krijno’s abstract works consider and apply photography’s many visual codes, symbols and patterns – as part of a bid to investigate the history of the image. The playful practice of performance defines Krijno’s process throughout, inviting a closer interrogation of modes of creation in and of themselves. |
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Nico Krijno / The Constellation #032, 2022
Framed archival inkjet print with museumglass
Available in three sizes / Edition of 3 plus 1 AP |
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| From staged photography to collage and video works, the densely-textured images that Krijno conceives are invariably hard to pin down. Synthetic, layered, digitally-manipulated, painterly, puzzling, enthralling; each one is unfixed and seemingly infinite, with a number focal points to absorb simultaneously. In the act of looking, the familiar traces – those things we recognise – are displaced and buried under elements we don’t. All the while, we rarely look away, succumbing instead to the works’ many mysteries. |
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Nico Krijno / The Constellation #059, 2022
Framed archival inkjet print with museumglass
Available in three sizes / Edition of 3 plus 1 AP |
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| In ‘The Constellation’, the latest chapter in Krijno’s continuous flow of obsessive image-making, a series of motifs bleed between the featured works, from multi-coloured polkadots to vanishing still-lifes, from warped sculptures to the characteristic lines of spray-painted graffiti. Combining wall-mounted works with a series of imposing paper poster rolls – cascading down from the gallery’s ceilings – the exhibition underlines the effect of Krijno’s oscillating images: a disorientating outpouring with no logical beginning or end. Spliced and stacked, fragments blend into other fragments – like the rippling screen of an old TV-set locked between competing frequencies. |
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Nico Krijno / The Constellation #018, 2022
Framed archival inkjet print with museumglass
Available in three sizes / Edition of 3 plus 1 AP |
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| The exhibition, which opens on January 21 2023, coincides with the launch of the artist’s new publication, Collages 2020-2022, published by Art Paper Editions. |
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Hardcover
Publisher: ArtPaperEditions
ISBN: 9789464660678
Dimensions: 14,5 × 19,5 cm
Pages: 448
Price: € 45
Available at the gallery |
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