Anton Kannemeyer "The Haunt of Fears"
Jack Shainman Gallery
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Jack Shainman Gallery presents "The Haunt of Fears", an exhibition of new works by Anton Kannemeyer. Taking its name from the 1950s EC Comics title (The Haunt of Fear), the exhibition pays homage to the tradition through which Kannemeyer made his name, comic art. As co-editor of Bitterkomix, the satirical comic magazine he started with Conrad Botes in 1992, Kannemeyer became known for creating an influential new South African brand of biting socio-political satire. Here Kannemeyer presents selections of works on paper from The Alphabet of Democracy-series, a new series entitled Cursed Paradise and drawings from recent sketch books; all of which elaborate on the tradition of comic art to voice more complex concerns in response to an ever changing cultural and socio-political landscape in southern Africa. Kannemeyer tackles a lot of issues politicians and journalists tent to shy away from by using a mixture of the stereotypes associated with political cartooning and combining them with the deeply personal, the irreverent and the surrealism of the subconscious. His idiosyncratic mash-up of allegory, history, existentialist nausea, self-loathing and nihilism makes for a heady brew. His work is a head-on collision with the national state of desperate confusion. This new collection of works will make the viewer nervous, then laugh, and then make him nervous all over again.
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from April 17, 2008 to May 17, 2008