Johannesburg Scene II ,2011.0
Exhibited : Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Soundings, In Passage, 1 to 29 October 2011.
Literature : Rosalind C Morris (2011) Clive van den Berg: Unlearning the Grounds of Art, Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, illustrated in colour on page 71.
Notes : The present lot forms part of a group of landscapes exhibited under the title Soundings, In Passage, at the Goodman Gallery. Reflecting on this body of work, Professor Rosalind C Morris, anthropologist, cultural critic and scholar of visual studies based at Columbia University in New York City, noted the following: ‘We recognise the gestures of brush and paint, but not the genre of landscape. We are reminded of drip painting, but there is no suggestion of radical contingency. The carefully worked surface is without mannerism. And the paint adheres to the canvas in a way that evokes both its meticulous placement and the possibility that it could suddenly detach itself to float upward or fall downward.’1
1. Rosalind C Morris (2011) Clive van den Berg: Unlearning the Grounds of Art, Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, page 71.
