South Africa

^{Posted on Thursday 11th October, 2007}

LISA BRICE  BASE ONE TWO THREE

Opening Saturday October 20 at 12:00pm Exhibition closes November 10, 2007

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^{Goodman Gallery Cape is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Cape Town by Lisa Brice since 1999. Brice graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 1990 and quickly established a stellar career with numerous local and international exhibitions before relocating to London in 1999.}

^{Known for the fearlessness of her wide-ranging subject matter that has included violence, crime and sexuality, as much as for the extraordinary diversity of materials and media she employs, Brice has recently returned to painting. In her latest series of paintings Lisa Brice focuses on the first flush of love by drawing on photographic and film images that conjure memories of adolescent desire, love and teenage kicks. By formally including the universal teenage ‘language’ of bleached denim she adds a caustic lo-fi edge to these works that explore oppositional tensions and drives.}

^{The ambiguities of intense emotion, introspection and uncertainty are suggested through the urgent handling of gesso, emulsion, wash, ink and bleach. Acknowledging the inherent romanticism of painting and the notoriously difficult subject of love, Brice questions how one dare speak of love in these times, in a world that is plunged into war and structural violence on so many fronts. But if it is the antidote and armour against dark times, the conclusion of course is: how can one not?}

^{The exhibition opens on Saturday October 20 and closes on Saturday November 10. On Thursday 1 November at 11:00 Brice will conduct a walkabout for the Friends of the South African National Gallery. Booking is essential. Contact Lizzie O’Hanlon on 021.467.4662 (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10:00 – 14:00.)}

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