IS Art at le Quartier Français is opening a two person exhibition by Franschhoek painter Jacqueline Crewe-Brown and Pretoria based sculptor Angus Taylor.
‘The beast of burden’ or the donkey is Taylor’s subject matter for this exhibition. He uses the donkey, a simple domesticated animal, as a symbol for the anti-monument, anti-elitism – not a thoroughbred horse. Written words, in Latin, appear on the surfaces of most of his donkeys, evoking the impression of intellectualism. In Taylor’s eyes, creating a fallacy. The donkey, the anti elitist animal, decorated with Latin text giving it superficial ‘content’ – much of what we see happening in contemporary art today, where meaningless work is given significance through intellectualisation, by means of clever wording. Angus Taylor works in granite and bronze.
Jacqueline Crewe Brown’s body of work is a socio-political commentary, dealing with the issues by which we are all surrounded: those of human injustice, loss, war, detention. The trademark, large scale of her canvasses, meets these issues head on. Her broken and damaged surfaces, scratching , stitching and diarising and emotional use of colour, revealing the fragility of society . Human rights and womanhood is at the core of her work for this exhibition.
As in Taylors work, text and the written words are integral. The text on Taylor’s work is raised relief, in Crewe-Brown’s work ,it is mainly stitched with thread, also creating a tactile raised three dimensional effect.
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