Brett Murray, Eyesight to the Blind
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Exhibited : Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Brave New World...20 Years of Democracy, July 3, 2014 - November 19, 2014. Another example from the edition was exhibited.
Literature : Chris Thurman (2009) 'Art's Sarcastic Truths', The Weekender, Saturday 28th February 2009.Indeed, this has become a pattern under BBE, BBBEE, GEAR, AsgiSA and other initiatives for economic development that have been unable to prevent greedy individuals from profiting enormously in the name of transformation. Accordingly, Murray’s “Eyesight to the Blind” is an optometrist’s chart which, if you read the (obvious) fineprint, equates U-BU-NTU with a dollar sign.Bettina Malcomess (2008) Crocodile Tear-y: Brett Murray at the Goodman Gallery, [Online], Available: http://www.artthrob.co.za/08may/reviews/goodmanc.html [2015/01/13].Certain works come closest to a surrealist aesthetic that I felt contained moments of ambiguity, and self-reflection, which is productively at odds with this one-liner ethic. This is particularly true of Murray's text works, such as Eyesight to the Blind, which sees an eye-test made from the word 'UBUNTU'.
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