Asha Zero at the 34LONG FINE ART Gallery Cape Town, S. Africa from 11 Mar to 12 Apr 08

Posted on March 6, 2008 at 12:00 PM.

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Exhibition Title: say for me

Artist Name: Asha Zero
Dates: 11 March 19h00 to 12 April 2008
Medium: acrylic on board works, compelling technical mastery and the gravitas of devoted manual labour – the images are entirely hand-painted
Website: http://www.34long.com

Genre: Contemporary

Exhibition Description:

This young artist does a fresh, hyper-contemporary take on urban culture. Asha Zero produces obsessively worked metaphors for a world of dissolved, disappearing and reappearing stimuli. Dead-pan and provocative, his acrylic on board works are at the same time aggressive and vulnerable, desirable and repulsive. His sense of absurdity is razor-sharp, complex and idiosyncratic.

Description:

This South African Artist creates works are reminiscent of Berlin Dadaist Hannah Hoch’s collaged imagery, Richard Hamilton’s cynicism and the solemn wit of Banksy. Asha Zero’s odd fragments and combinations function within a global and historical frame of reference as much as it remains rooted in the present-day sidewalks of South Africa.

Full Contact Details:

34 Long Street Cape Town South Africa
For more information contact Andries Loots: tel. +27 82 354 1500 fineart@34long.com
Gallery hours Tuesday - Friday 9h00-17h00 Saturday 10h-14h00
or by appointment tel. +27 21 426 4594