Disrupted exhibition now open
PARKWOOD – David Krut Projects will host a new, solo exhibition by Maja Maljevi called Disrupted. Find out more here.
The Disrupted exhibition is an experimental body of work by Maja Maljevi, where the iconic figurative imagery originally by Diego Velázquez is abstracted in order to ‘disrupt the neat classical image’.
It is the first time that Maljevi has based an exhibition on a single motif to which every piece relates.
She said that she chose to work with the Old Master ‘because of his important place in the history of art’.
The opening of Disrupted also coincides with the major Velázquez exhibition opening at Paris’s Grand Palais.
The artist uses traditional mediums such as paint and canvas to re-construe traditional imagery according to the contemporary approach to constructing an image. The entire exhibition explores the potential processes for building an image, especially when it already exists in various forms within public memory.
Maljevi’s playful repetition of geometric shapes is easily recognisable as her signature language of abstract expression. This assemblage of shapes on the canvas can be described as an intuitive extrapolation of an alphabet of symbols which exist in her mind’s eye. She describes her process to be ‘like alchemy’, an inexplicable meeting of mind and matter.
Disrupted will be on show at David Krut Projects, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, until 28 May.
Details: www.davidkrutprojects.com
