From Paris to New York to Amsterdam, discover the exhibitions to visit over the next months.
In a riot of colours and meandering forms, South African artist Nico Krijno’s abstract works consider and apply photography’s many visual codes, symbols and patterns—as part of a bid to investigate the history of the image. The playful practice of performance defines Krijno’s process throughout, inviting a closer interrogation of modes of creation in and of themselves.
From staged photography to collage and video works, the densely-textured images that Krijno conceives are invariably hard to pin down.
Installation view of The Constellation by Nico Krijno at The Ravestijn Gallery
Synthetic, layered, digitally-manipulated, painterly, puzzling, enthralling; each one is unfixed and seemingly infinite, with a number of focal points to absorb simultaneously.
Synthetic, layered, digitally-manipulated, painterly, puzzling, enthralling; each one is unfixed and seemingly infinite, with a number of focal points to absorb simultaneously. In the act of looking, the familiar traces – those things we recognise – are displaced and buried under elements we don’t. All the while, we rarely look away, succumbing instead to the works’ many mysteries. The exhibition, which opens on January 21, 2023, coincides with the launch of the artist’s new publication, Collages 2020-2022, published by Art Paper Editions.
Collages 2020 - 2022 by Nico Krijno
