‘Relaas' by Rosemarie Marriott at Oliewenhuis Art Museum

International Mon 24-01-2011

‘Relaas' by Rosemarie Marriott at Oliewenhuis Art Museum
By a Correspondent

Rosemarie Marriott’s solo touring museum exhibition ‘relaas….’ will be opened by Les Cohn at Oliewenhuis Art Museum at 19:00 on 03 February 2011. There will be a walkabout by the artist at 10:00 on 04 February.

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^{Ringe, ringe, rosie}

Bloemfontein is the second leg for this acclaimed exhibition which was launched at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in June 2010.

Festival committee member and respected South African artist Andrew Verster cited the exhibition as “the best visual art exhibition of the Festival.”

The title ‘relaas....’ is Afrikaans for a narrative story. Marriott spent two years developing this powerful body of work, intuitively manipulating a range of media to create forms which reference children’s nursery rhymes and stories.

The artist engages with themes from children's stories and nursery rhymes that carry an underlying message. She attempts to capture the way a child might see and interpret that message, which does not always correspond with the story as it appears to an adult. Marriott says “I attempt to capture how a child might envisage and interpret children’s parables and nursery rhymes”.

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^{Lies Van Die Kinders}

In ‘relaas…’ Marriott explores her personal responses to well known childhood fairytales, nursery rhymes and objects such as teddy bears and dolls; stories and objects to which children (and adults) attach profound emotions, meanings and memories. The artworks also reflect the underlying psychological horror in some of these tales, acting as powerful metaphors. The material and expression reflect Marriott’s Afrikaans rural cultural background.

Some of the larger pieces of this body of work use a combination of bronze and animal skin, and the artist also presents a new body of lino cuts (printed at the Artists Proof Studios in Newtown, Johannesburg). Her work is meticulously rendered. Her materials reference her early childhood spent on a farm in the dry Kuruman area.

A paramount force in her art making practice is the combined act of collecting material such as animal skin or parts (from taxidermists and local farms) and the visceral transformation of that material into new forms incorporating sculptural pieces, linocuts and installations.

Rosemarie Marriot

^{Doll by Rosemarie Mariott}

“The works aims to give new life to dead and discarded objects. Marriott is an intuitive artist who creates tender and startling new forms” says ‘relaas…..’ Project Manager Les Cohn of Art Source South Africa.

Marriott obtained a degree from UNISA and later completed a diploma at the Wits School of the Arts (WSOA), where she studied as a ‘mature’ student. Since 1986 Marriott has held several successful solo exhibitions (including one in Lusaka, Zambia in 1995) and participated in many group exhibition held at major galleries with other well established artists. Her work has been exceptionally well received wherever she has exhibited.

Please RSVP before 1 February 2011 at 051 447 9609 or oliewen@nasmus.co.za.

Oliewenhuis-kunsmuseum Persvrystelling

RELAAS-UITSTALLING DEUR ROSEMARIE MARRIOTT

3 Februarie tot 27 Maart 2011

Rosemarie Marriott se rondtoerende solo-uitstalling ‘relaas….’ sal by Oliewenhuis-kunsmuseum op 3 Februarie 2011 om 19:00 deur Les Cohn geopen word. ‘n Begeleide toer sal deur die kunstenaar op 4 Februarie 2011 om 10:00 aangebied word. Bloemfontein is die tweede been van hierdie gewilde uitstalling wat by die Grahamstadse Nasionale Kunstefees in Junie 2010 geopen is.

Die Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar en feeskomiteelid Andrew Verster het hierdie uitstalling as die beste visuele kunsuitstalling van die fees bestempel.

Dit het Marriott die afgelope twee jaar geneem om hierdie kragtige werke van die uitstalling getiteld ‘relaas….’ (wat ‘n storie vertel), te skep. Die kunstenaar het met aanvoeling ‘n reeks media gemanipuleer om vorme te skep met verwysing na kinderversies en –stories. Marriot werk met temas uit kinderstories en rympies wat ‘n onderliggende boodskap dra. Sy probeer om die kind se siening en interpretasie van die storie weer te gee wat nie altyd met die storie se strekking ooreenstem nie.

In ‘relaas….’ ondersoek Marriott haar persoonlike reaksies op bekende kinderstories, kinderrympies en voorwerpe soos teddiebere en poppe-voorwerpe waaraan kinders (en volwassenes) sterk emosies, betekenis en herinneringe koppel. Daar word ook verwys na die onderliggende sielkundige verskrikking in sommige van hierdie verhale wat as kragtige metafore gebruik word. Die materiaal en uitbeelding dui op Rosemarie se Afrikaanse en plattelandse kulturele agtergrond.

In Marriott se woorde: “I attemp to capture how a child might envisage and interpret children’s parables and nursery thymes.” Sommige van die groter stukke van hierdie groep werke gebruik ‘n kombinasie van brons en dierevel en die kunstenaar het ook ‘n reeks linodrukke opgelewer (gedruk in die Artists Proof Studios in Newtown, Johannesburg). Haar werk is noukeurig weergegee. Haar materiale is verwysings na haar vroëe kinderlewe op ‘n plaas in die droë Kuruman-omgewing.

Die belangrikste krag in haar kunsskepping is die kombinasie van materiaal versamel, soos die velle en dele van diere (afkomstig van taksidermiste en omliggende plase) en die innerlike transformasie van die materiaal in soms delikate of verrassende nuwe vorme waarin beeldhoustukke, linosneë en installasies gebruik word.

Volgens ‘relaas….’-projekbestuurder Les Cohn van Art Source South Africa:

“The works aims to give new life to dead and discarded objects. Marriott is an intuitive artist that creates tender and startling new forms.”

Marriott het ‘n graad by UNISA en later ‘n diploma by Wits se Skool vir die Kunste (WSOA) behaal. Vanaf 1986 het Marriott verskeie suksesvolle solo-uitstallings gehou (insluitend in Lusaka, Zambië in 1995) en het aan baie groepuitstallings by belangrike galerye saam met ander goed gevestigde kunstenaars deelgeneem. Oral waar haar werk uitgestal word, lok dit goeie kritiek uit.

RSVP asseblief voor 1 Februarie 2011 by 051 447 9609 of oliewen@nasmus.co.za

Posted By: Maggie Otieno

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