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A Room Decorated by a Woman Who Has Suffered No Anguish
2022
Oil on canvas
15 x 18 cm incl frame
Framed
Artist statement:
These works form part of my ongoing love affair with slightly passé interior design: Chekov’s gun with out all the standing around of a Chekov play. Gleaning moments from Fairlady decorating guides and the Terrance-Conran-Industrial-Complex these works dissolve the gloss off their showroom origins and begin to adopt the grotty mystique of backdrops from forgotten dramas. I draw the titles from my own domestic history and spin them together with the light favored by Elizabeth Barett-Browning and commercial photographers of yore to impail the delightful wit the emerges form forced intimacy.
About the artist:
Fanie Buys was born in Gansbaai in 1993 to a British mother and Afrikaans father. After spending several years explaining that he doesn’t actually speak Afrikaans that well he completed his secondary schooling in George, and went on to do a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Michaelis. Graduating in 2016 with a distinction in studiowork and the co-recipient of both the Simon Gerson Award for an original body of work and the Judy Steinberg Award for painting, Buys completed a Post Graduate Certificate of Education. He has been teaching as well as pursuing his painting practice since. Buys has exhibited nationally and abroad, and his work has been featured in VISI, House and Leisure, Artthrob, and the Art Times – he has also been a finalist in the Sanlam National Portrait Award and Fynarts Tondo Prize shows. Buys has mounted four solo presentations to date, the most recent being Peach Emoji at 99 Loop Gallery in Cape Town, where he lives and practices.
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