Keith Alexander; South African 1946-1998; After the Vandals
Provenance : Acquired from the artist by the current owner.
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Literature : David Robbins (2000) Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, page 232.
Notes : "My fascination with the ruins became something of a family joke,' he recalled. Yet he always readily acknowledged the power of these early manifestations of the flimsiness and impermanence of seemingly solid structures: those rows of shattered houses, walls crashed into craters of rubble, sagging and splintered roofs, and the private interiors of rooms so rudely and incongruously exposed. Seeing them as he did at a time already characterised by the inevitable insecurities associated with travel, these images burned themselves into his imagination as prototypes of haunting destruction and loss."1 1. David Robbins (2000) Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, page 13.
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