Art lovers with a keen interest in the elements, who combine nations together and power relations that are involved in partnerships in government, will be fascinated by Titus Matiyane’s new exhibition. It is titled BRICS capitals: Titus Matiyane’s Panoramas.
Matiyane’s art work will be curated by Professor Elfriede Dreyer from 7 October to 11 November at the UJ Art Gallery in Auckland Park. The Pretoria-based artist exhibition will include pieces such as Panorama Moscow, Panorama of New Delhi, and Panorama Africa.
According to Dreyer, Matiyane creates artwork from his point of view as a watchman that depicts panoramas of the cities in the world and multi–view compositions. His large mixed-media panoramic depictions of cities of the world utilises a naïve style of schematic outlining and usage of coloured pencils and crayons, not unlike that of the early travelogues of the Renaissance and colonial explorers.
“Conceptually the artist claims familiarity with the ownership of these spaces, although his source of material is seldom derived from photographs of actual visits to various locations,” he said. The artist’s work is described by Dreyer as setting up a psycho-geographical relationship with his own interpretation of the cities of the world in coloration to representing space and place.
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