STATES IN SPACES
MJ LOURENS
"The mind sees what the eye doesn´t"Everard Read, Cape Town will be holding a solo exhibition of works by MJ Lourens, showcasing not only his familiar city silhouettes, but a series of bronzes & monoprints as well.
Please join us at 18:30 on the 10th September, 2009.
The exhibition concludes 24th September.
This exhibition extends Lourens´s oeuvre from his signature pieces - brooding early evening cityscapes suggestive of alienating urban life - into very different arenas, namely sculptures & monoprints. Collectively, the works on show delve into emotional states on three very different levels (spaces?) - the city, the domestic & the individual.
These artworks will leave viewers in no doubt as to the influence that Surrealism (Dali & Magritte in particular) has stamped on Lourens´s vision. Those familiar with his cityscapes should re-examine them, looking for their surrealist elements. If Dali´s landscapes combine the familiar with the uncanny & unknown, MJ Lourens rather gives us imagined views of the known.
