Kate Gottgens; South Africa 1965-; Mystery Couple ,2013
Provenance : SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, 2013. The Oliver Powell and Timely Investments Trust Collection.
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Literature : Marelize van Zyl (ed)(2015) Kate Gottgens//Paintings 2007-2015, Stellenbosch: SMAC Gallery, illustrated in colour on page 163.
Notes : "It is dizzying; the intimacies that can transpire between strangers. At times it feels necessary to establish some distance - focus on the mechanics of reproduction. Her gaze becomes forensic. She studies the photograph, looking for its imperfections, its technical failures. As a painter, it excites her to find the fault lines - the places in the photograph where the image has broken down, becoming something other than technically sound mimesis. It becomes important somehow to reproduce the glitch - maximise the instance of interference that has visually disrupted transmission of the moment across time. Her starting point is the record rather than the moment. She flattens out the background oranges and the black tones of the man's suit so that they become a flat pattern - evidence of fallout from the dimensionality of the real."1 1Marelize van Zyl (ed)(2015) Kate Gottgens//Paintings 2007-2015, Stellenbosch: SMAC Gallery, page 163.
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