Artist Victor Gordon in significant art exhibition in South Africa
HOME AND AWAY: A Return To The South, Curated by Carol Brown for Ifa Lethu Foundation Constitution Hill, Johannesburg South Africa, June - July 2010. Promoted as the premier art event to coincide with the World Cup Soccer being hosted in South Africa next month.
South African born artist Victor Gordon currently living in Australia, has been honoured to have five major works represented in this exhibition. The large scale works (most are 2.25 m x 1.8m) from Gordon's installation " Behold the Land where Satan reigns" were last exhibited in Sydney in 1990 at the time of Mandela's release and the ground breaking shift towards a Democratic South Africa. The exhibition was unequivocally political and cuttingly critical of the South African Apartheid regime. Gordon had grown up and had personally experienced much of what he vividly portrayed in his art. The works are explicit and disturbingly evocative. The exhibition attracted attention at the time and SBS made an eight minute documentary of the installation. Gordon will be in South Africa at the launch of the exhibition and has been invited to be a guest speaker at a number of venues. Read more Media release
Powerful and thought-provoking, an exhibition by New South Wales artist Victor Gordon opens at the Blacksphere Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, on 19th November.
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