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I am trying to remember who you are

30 April 2021

Participating:

Wayne Vivier

A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Gertrude Stein

’I guided you on Geryon

Shall I do less now we are nearer God?’

Dante’s Divine Comedy

"How would I paint you? I would not be able to paint you entirely. I would have to paint something fragmented and incomplete. And there would be a lot of uncertainty. I would also only have access to that part of you that is in me, and hope that you would come through in some way. Could repetition help me with this? I imagine you to be a moving being, but paradoxically, because you are outside time and I perceive movement in time, you would be still too. So, I think painting is a good way in which to attempt this communion with you. It would have to be on more than one piece of board, probably many, and it would be a lifetime project, maybe requiring more than one lifetime. It would only ever be a glimpse or a taste of you, maybe just enough for me to remember who you are."

Wayne Vivier is an award-winning artist practising in Pretoria, South Africa. He was born in 1976 in Welkom and raised in Pretoria. After obtaining a B. Sc Computer Science at UNISA and working as a software developer for six years in Johannesburg, he returned to Pretoria to continue his art studies at Tshwane University of Technology where he obtained his M. Tech Fine Arts in March 2011. He has held seven solo exhibitions, participated in numerous curated exhibitions and national art competitions including, Sasol new signatures, ABSA l'Atelier, Thami Mnyele and State of the art gallery. He was awarded runner-up in the ‘For the love of art’ competition presented by Longstreet Art Lovers 1934 gallery in 2016. His work forms part of many private and corporate collections.

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