The Open Crowd Of Penny Siopis
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- Private collection since c. 2010
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Note : "The anchoring theme involves the idea of the multitude in tension with the individual - a solitary figure. Here I have been inspired by, among others, Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power (1960), an imaginative study of mass behaviour which draws on a truly extraordinary array of myths and historical and literary sources. He discusses many different kinds of crowds but the one that interests me most is his unpredictable 'open' crowd, whose energies multiply, morph, take direction and grow. His description of these crowds includes drawing on nature symbols - fire, water, forests, swarms - and these I found particularly resonant for my painting" (Penny Siopis: Who's Afraid of the Crowd? Cape Town, Stevenson, p. 49).
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