About The Artist

Artist Biography

Born in Bayonne, France in 1962, his childhood in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, finished his schooling at NSA in South Africa, worked in Advertising for 9 years in Johannesburg. Self-taught, he started painting full time in 1989. His works consist of large landscapes and topographical / architectural works which he re-interprets into figures and symbols.

Duplan is represented in numerous collections including: UNISA, UJ,Old Mutual, Webber Wentzel, Hollards, Mbombela Council, IBM SA, Bellingham, Rooth & Wessels, Media 24, Spier and MAP Richmond.

He works from his studio in Pretoria.

Artist CV

Selected recent exhibitions

2018 - Gallery2 . UrbanSkins . with Andre Clements . Johannesburg

2017 - Grande Provence Gallery . Painterly . Franschhoek.

2017 - University of Johannesburg Art Gallery . Rethinking Kakotopia, curated by Derek Zietsman

2016 – Moor Gallery . Non- Place, Franschoek

2016 – South African Pavilion – Cool Capital, Venice Biennale

2015 - Diedericks Faber Fine Art. ...is it art? Johannesburg

2015 - Aardklop - Games People Play, Potchefstroom

2015 - Oliewenhuis Art Museum – Terra, Bloemfontein

2015 - Fried Contemporary Art Gallery, Drawing

2014 - Fried Contemporary Art Gallery - FAAF, Pretoria

2014 - Trent Gallery - Group Show, Pretoria

2013 - Gallery 2 - Ancient Future. Sixth Solo, Johannesburg

2013 - D Street Gallery, Stellenbosch

2013 – UNISA - DIGI Re-engineered, Pretoria

2012 - University of Pretoria, Fifth Solo – Franco - South African Painter.

2012 - The Art Business Contemporary – Indulgences, Piketsburg

2012 - Fried Contemporary Art Gallery - Terra Incognito, Pretoria

2012 - KKNK - Fried Contemporary Art Gallery, Design of Living.

2012 - M Dawid Ras - 2 man-show with Johann Moolman, Johannesburg

2011 - IsArt - 2 man-show with Rebecca Tetley, Franshhoek

2011 - Fried Contemporary Art Gallery - Design of Living, Pretoria

2011 - UJ Art Gallery - MAP, Johannesburg

2010 - Fried Contemporary Art Gallery - Cities in Transit, Pretoria

2009 - M Dawid Ras - Fourth Solo, Johannesburg

2009 - Bruyden & Gonsalves - Posters with Carla Crafford, Cape Town

2008 - UNISA Art Gallery – Intervention, Pretoria

Duplan's mapping of the city becomes a form of individualist symbolic language that in abstract way relates to journey, discovery and road, always probing deeper and peeling off and stripping the layers of the city. His work deals with a kind of post-urban condition where life is restless, disrupting state of being in- between places or liminality.

- Professor Elfriede Dreyer