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 Subsurface Scattering3 December 2020 Participating: Annelie Venter, Janna Prinsloo, JP Meyer, Mzimasi Funo, Ydi Coetsee, Andrew Gibson, Claudia Gurwitz, Gina Niederhumer, Hanien Conradie, Hermien van der Merwe, Julie Tugwell, Judy woodborne, Klara-Marie de Heijer, Lisa-Marie Myburgh, Lize Hugo, Paul P The exhibition that features 22 artists and is curated by Clare Menck.
If you hold your hand up against the sun or against a bright flashlight at night, light traveling subcutaneously turns the spaces between your fingers bright red. This interesting phenomena reminds of the blood pumping through our veins and the bones and veins in-between our skin membranes, is called "subsurface scattering". Artists have known about this property for centuries. Peter Paul Rubens rendered skin not as an opaque surface, but as a transparent, glowing, luminous layer. A few perfect examples of 'subsurface scattering' in this exhibition are Annelie Venter's two paintings of wild hares, whose ears are lit up luminously by the burning sun behind them. This celebration of visual phenomena and the natural world in her "kontrei" are to be seen as revealing a deeper layer of conceptual meaning when the transience of light echoes the brevity and fragility of life itself. Whether figurative or abstracted, these manifold works are to be seen as a celebration of survival in the midst of loss and indeed of the resulting inevitability of change. VENUE:GALLERY ONE11 Address: 111 Loop Street, Cape Town Hours: Tuesday - Friday 11h00 - 16h00. Saturday 9h00 - 13h00.
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