Keith Alexander; South African 1946-1998; Ruin with Opulent Interior (Pomona)
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Literature : David Robbins (2000) Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, illustrated in colour on page 164.
Notes : Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. "'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." David Robbins
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