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Gerhard Marx / Ecstatic Archive /2019

26 January - 09 March 2019
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

Goodman Gallery Johannesburg 26 January – 9 March 2019

Ecstatic Archive presents new work from Gerhard Marx’s ongoing series of disorienting maps which investigate in the words of writer Alexandra Dodd, ‘the formal and fictive possibilities of perspective’.

The title of the exhibition refers to a series of archives Marx has been working with over the past two years. The archives came from two main sources. The first was a collection of decommissioned geographic, geological and political maps from the past two centuries, which were saved from being pulped. While the other archive was of a more personal nature, comprising outdated maps donated by individuals burdened by a nostalgic attachment to these documents, but unsure what to do with them. Rupturing the flatness of these maps, Marx has reworked the material with the dedicated rigor of a cartographer charting ever more imaginative territories. The geometrically complex drawings produced by these efforts are best read with the assistance of a navigational device. One such compass can be found in the form of a catalogue essay written by Professor Edgar Pieterse.

Artworks

Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
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Digital print on cotton paper
Cut and Reconstituted Map Fragments on Acrylic ground and canvass
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Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
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Reconfigured map fragments on acrylic-polyurethane ground and canvas
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Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
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Reconfigured map fragments on acrylic-polyurethane ground and canvas
Reconfigured map fragments on acrylic-polyurethane ground and canvas
Work: 180 x 140 cm
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Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
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Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
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Beech wood with Milk paint
Work: 60 x 170 x 120 cm
Reconfigured map fragments on acrylic-polyurethane ground and canvas
Work: 180 x 220 cm
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Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
Unavailable
Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
Unavailable
Reconfigured map fragments on acrylic-polyurethane ground and canvas
Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
Unavailable
Reconfigured Map fragments on Acrylic-Polyurethane Ground and Canvas
Unavailable