Dream Rift, Eclectica

http://www.eclecticadesignandart.co.za/exhibition/dream-rift

Dream Rift: Mark Rautenbach; artist statement, August 2017 

The Surrealists gave us license and tools to explore our reality, inner dimensions and dreams; our psychology. They pioneered and formed new pictorial devices. The picture plane becomes a space in which distinctions between right and wrong, up/down, in front of/behind, inside/outside are discarded. Irrationality, the absurd, paradox and contradiction, the language and textures of dreams, are unleashed. The figurative, myth, metaphor, symbol, mystery become weightier and more tangible than the actual.

[This is not a Landscape] Deep in the Woods - 2017

89cm x 64.5cm

Polyester thread, cut archival print, corrugated cardboard, acrylic ink, paper, glue

[This is not a Landscape] Driving Through a Storm  in the Freestate – 2017

132cm x 39.5cm

Rice paper, wax crayon, acrylic ink, metal leaf, pins, woodgrain
paper, corrugated cardboard 

[This is not a Landscape] life is Suffering / Wish Upon a star – 2017
77cm x 35cm
Cut archival print, polyester thread, glue, corrugated cardboard, diamante, holographic glitter

[This is not a] Black Diamond – 2017           

60cm x 51cm x 15cm

Cut archival print, glue, trilobal, board, polyester thread

           

[This is not] Holographic – 2017

106.5cm x 76.5cm

Cut archival print, MDF, polyester thread, glue