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 Fractured Portraits12 October 2024 Participating: Robinne Renkin This Pretoria based artist combines a sharp interest in the deconstruction of form, dissecting line-by-line, and seeking the authentic form by the reconstruction of what makes up the whole, with an analytical fascination.
The medium of exploration is black ink and ballpoint pens, stripping the work of color and creating high-contrast expressive images.
Robinne makes use of mathematical instruments that examine the fragile proportions of faces and bodies and how every part fits together, but that also underlines the brokenness of human nature that can never fully be measured.
Living with a degenerative, connective tissue disorder that fractures and embeds itself in the body, sparked Robinne's curiosity in the continuous cycle of the deconstruction and reconstruction that happens over a period of time to all matter. Everything is a sum of its different parts - and everything is history and future.
This condition also lends itself to modern fixes that are mechanical and harsh in many ways and becomes merged with the bodies past and present. These past and future elements are captured in Robinne's pieces along with illustrated ideas of how symptoms of pain and disruption are experienced.
The portraits featured in this collection are a deconstruction of real faces, interrogated to find their true connections even within fragmentation.
"I appeal to a sense of form, where I use naturalistic form I have stripped it of all irrelevant matter...
My object is the construction of Pure Form." - David Bomberg, 1914 VENUE:ASSOCIATION OF ARTS PRETORIA Address: 173 Mackie Str, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria Tel: 012 346 3100 / 3110 || Cell: 083 288 5117 Email: artspta@mweb.co.za Gallery Hours: Tue to Fri 09:00 - 17:00. Sat 09:00 - 13:00.
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