Strauss & co - 10 October 2016, Cape Town

Vulindlela Nyoni (1976- ) “Thematically I use print as a means to address real world situations that affect me directly. The rough, and in some way unpredictable nature of drypoint printing provides a space for me to reflect on the unpredictability of human nature. In this set of works I have chosen to focus on the current events that are taking place in Zimbabwe, the place where I was born. It has been some time since I went home and the information I have as to the current situation is but hazy, rough around the edges. These prints speak of this diaphanous relationship I have with what once was 'home’.” Bonolo Kavula (1992- ) “In our world information is given and received instantaneously in the media. Printmaking had the same effect before the world wide web. Apart from being used as a strategy for art making it was effective as a means of disseminating information to the masses. To create a portfolio like this is to appreciate and understand the medium in its entirety – technique and process - not only for making art but as a strategy in cultural exchange and in moments of cultural revolution.” Andrew Putter (1965- ) “The richness of the inked burr stands for the richness of the world. The masked areas gesture towards the sterility of judging the world according to categories that are imagined to be timeless, or beautiful, or true, or good.” Georgina Gratrix (1982- ) “Print as a medium is about the surprise. It never turns out how you think it will. Something is always lost and found in the translation.” Mandla Vanyaza (1963- ) “The burr suggests a narrative, and a passage to poke the societal and leadership veneer, revealing deep, long and winding fault lines in present day South Africa.” Randolph Hartzenberg (1948- ) “I am responding to the notion of visual signals, and since, for me, our time is marked by a sense of uncertainty I have used the drypoint technique and via the burr I want to signal visually and create an image that is evocative of that personal sense of uncertainty.” 215