David Krut Projects presents Cloud of the Unknowing
CRAIGHALL - Artist Robyn Penn exhibits at David Krut Projects.
David Krut Projects in Craighall Park is currently hosting the solo exhibition, Cloud of Unknowing, by artist Roby Penn.
According to Elzette de Beer from David Krut Projects, Penn’s artworks are known for being hauntingly beautiful and challenging.
Penn’s multimedia exhibition tackles the uncomfortable truths around climate change in the form of paintings, prints and sculptures.
“Climate change is the elephant in the room which we can’t afford to ignore because it is integral to the human narrative on this earth,” said Penn.
She combines vast paintings of cloud formations with intimate portraits of so-called ‘climate misinformers’.
For Cloud of Unknowing, Penn conceptualises the earth as a human body. “At just a few degrees higher, the body is not well. Similarly, with the earth building to a higher temperature than usual due to industrial emissions, it is sick,” Penn explained.
Drawing on the power of art, she highlights a global failure to properly address the harmful effects of our unhealthy capitalist-driven habits, propped up by free trade policies.
Interspersed among the paintings and sculptures are prints made in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop, which also depict clouds. Penn uses the painterly, energetic mark-making which forms her paintings of clouds in their early stages. While her paintings appear with a glazed realism, the prints retain the immediate rawness of the original paintings.
Penn’s artwork will be on display until 6 August at David Krut Projects art gallery located on Jan Smuts Avenue in Craighall Park.
