UPCOMING | Sean Blem: Resonance – A Ten Year Retrospective |
UPCOMING | Sean Blem: Resonance – A Ten Year Retrospective |
Sean Blem: Resonance – A Ten Year Retrospective
Opening
2PM, Sat, 17 February 2024
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of Sean Blem: Resonance – A Ten Year Retrospective, on Saturday, 17 February, at 2PM.
Sean Blem completed his first residency at NIROX in 2014, where he created a body of work titled Hyperextension. Through sculpture and painting Blem merged his interests in communication and language — evident in earlier series like Form (2004 –11) — with anatomy and object resonance; how particular forms take on a life of their own.
On his return in 2016, Blem created the Mastaba series, cross-referencing early memories with one of the most ancient
and resilient pre-pyramidic forms. That said, Blem is not one to explain his work, opting instead to set up the parameters for audiences to experience it on their own terms. His work often includes hidden references or aspects that are unknown, from choice pigments and the coating of works to specific material decisions, which all contribute to Blem’s multi-referential vocabulary.
Produced from wild olive, his latest body of work continues the evolution of this engagement with materials, drawing on the structural and medicinal properties of indigenous wood and its cultural and historic resonance in South Africa and further afield.
To learn more about Blem’s practice and the upcoming exhibition, or to RSVP, click one of the two buttons below.
“Now and Then”: in conversation with Richard John Forbes
Join us at 6PM on Thursday, 15 February, as we inaugurate a new, biomonthly talks programme titled "Now and Then", during which we invite an artist to talk about their work in NIROX’s Sculpture Park, from how it was conceived and made to its site-specificity and continued presence to its impact on their work as a whole. For the first iteration we will be in discussion with Richard Forbes, to talk about the various works created in the Park over the years.