Artists try to define a distilled line in their work

Opening tomorrow night at 7pm and runs until November 20 is Jaarringe, and exciting duo exhibition at Pretoria Arts Association.

This is the third presentation by Jacobus Kloppers and Alet Swarts and, as with the previous two (Spieëlkamer and Spoorlyn) the show is individual and collaborative. Both artists try to define a distilled line that runs through their respective body of work.

A line that is clear, yet subtle and attempts to navigate, untainted, through the noise of digital imagery. Swarts states that every object has its own visual language, with logic and internal references and therefore a history. As a figurative artist, she uses objects as metaphors and changes their language to provoke a new narrative.

For this body of work her paintings are exercises in imagining memory.

Kloppers said his work in essence dealt with landscape. They’re not merely landscapes in the traditional sense. They should not be read as windows to the outside world, nature scenery or vistas of nature.

They should be regarded as monuments or chosen images of natural elements that act as conduits to an inner landscape. They represent the moment when the eyes see in the landscape is translated into thoughts, stories, histories, memories, visions, the unexplained, the stirrings of emotions, cultural or linguistic symbols or metaphors.

One can better describe them as doorways into the inner landscape. They are all moments of reflection. – Citizen reporter