Painting · acrylic and acrylic ink
François Potgieter
Paints the Karoo through cubist architecture, geological memory and the human figure in transit.
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François Potgieter works in acrylic and acrylic ink from the studio at the back of the house on Bank Street.
His paintings take the Karoo apart and put it back together as planes: a koppie becomes a wall, a street becomes a stair, a figure is caught halfway between two places.
He also photographs the landscape around Prince Albert, a separate body of work that feeds the paintings.
Statement
“I am interested in what the land remembers. Rock folds over millions of years; a town is built in a century; a person crosses it in an afternoon. The paintings try to hold all three speeds at once.”
