- Venue
- East Central Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, March 12, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, April 23, 2011
- Address
- 23 Bateman's Row London EC2A 3HH
- Location
- London
East Central Gallery is proud to present Condensation: S is for Say It, an exhibition by the New York- based South African painter Vivienne Koorland. This exhibition is the artist’s first one-person show at the gallery, and comprises a large number of works, most of them painted over the last eighteen months. The show marks a significant departure for the artist, not least in a change of scale. Known for works of large dimensions, Koorland has taken on the challenge of working on smaller scale surfaces. Still using her signature hand-hewn heavily-stitched burlap and linen for the oil paintings, and her worked bookboards for the drawings, she has dived deep into her rich and multi-layered vocabulary in order to create a complex, intimate language of iconic words and images, providing viewers with an index through association for the individual logic and constancy of her work. Throughout her practice, Koorland has projected her own history onto subject matter concerned with greater political themes, such as war, racial displacement and cultural destruction. But often text used in the body of her work is intimate, touching less exposed places, but even then, not directly so. In Condensation, the artist has walked the long way and created what is by far her most private show.
