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Artist's Highway to the new Millennium
Jacobus Kloppers
is an artist known for his exploration of
objects found mainly in the Karoo landscape like reservoirs, kraals, gates
and feeding troughs. Now this artist took a new 'turn' and with his new exhibition that
opened at the Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery in IN·FIN·ART Building,
Upper Buitengracht Street, Cape Town, there is a collection of a new series
of work called " Tussenruimtes " ( In between Spaces)
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Just as one thought that landscapes have been done in all mediums, sizes
and styles comes something new. Jacobus whom many a critic describes
as just another landscape artist, has shown everybody that there is still
much to be said about this age-old genre. The artist's interpretation of
his paintings is somewhat surrealistic in approach.
While he travels he always takes his video camera with to take footage.
These images are then utilised with the telephoto distortions, blurring
and colour bleeding for his paintings and become a reference in capturing a moment in time.
" It is the journey to something. When you are looking for a
place, it all starts with the journey. The journey then becomes important:
small things along the way like mileposts, picnic
spots, marks on the tarmac, place names, road signs and where the road
meets the horizon "
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