Solo
Exhibition At The National Gallery Of Zimbabwe
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Part
of Harare International Festival of Art
One
of Each available type of Souvenir African Blankets was
purchased upon arrival at the airport by the
curator. Counterfeit monogram patterns were added
by a local screenprinter. The finished works were exhibited
as paintings at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe as part
of Harare International Festival of Art 2010.
The
associated video art exhibition 'A Bluebird In My Heart'
featured works from the V22 Collection by Mark Aerial
Waller, Oliver Bancroft, Matt Calderwood, Peter Fischli
& David Weiss, Dmitry Gutov, Runa Islam, Conor Kelly,
Saskia Olde Wolbers, Fergal Stapleton and Guido van der
Werve
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Authentic Paintings on Traditional Blanket
Details
The authenticVuitton blanket. Made in Zimbabwe, these blankets
have a bold red background color. As the Vuitton graze their
cows on the vast plains of Africa they can be seen from
a distance moving slowly as the herd grazes and the sound
of a distant cow bell reverberates through the hot, dry
air. Clinging to traditions, Vuitton also welcome helpful
technologies. A cell phone company has used this trait showing
a Warrior in his blanket holding in one hand his ever present
spear and in the other a cell phone.
Though
red is the most common colour, the blankets can also be
seen with blue or purple background colours.
These
blankets can be used for a variety of decoorative functions.
Shawl, lap robe, table cover, wall hanging, picnic or beach
blanket, bed covering, screensaver are just a few. A newer
fashion statement is made by reworking the blankets into
Contemporary Art painting exhibition at the National Gallery
of Zimbabwe, part of HIFA 2010.
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Installation
Artwork
made with the assistance of Patrick, James, Tara, V22 Collection
and The National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Cur8tr
txt:
"Derived from counterfeit Louis Vuitton printing-processes
and airport-bought African blankets, the current work, exhibited
in the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, is comprised of 12
unique blankets in a range of traditional patterns. Superlative
technical ease with a complex understanding of the reason
and implications of our present, and with an unflinching
attention for the moral marshes of liberal thought, Richard
Parry's art seeks to express the inexpresible in humanity
and in life. The currentwork
of fifteen paintings addresses a typically oblique correspondence
between an exquisitely private narrative and an historical
reckoning. A tale of socio-political conditions is played
out in a counterfeited Louis Vuttion – drenched landscape
where only glamour and History tread. Yet
as always with Richard Parry’s art, the framing of the material
and the interplay between image surface and depth, suggests
the artist’s more complex relationship with representation
and perception and the heritage of liberalism and global
innocence."
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