Added Jul 8, 2005
Cannon Hill artist Andre van der Kerkhoff’s latest series of paintings will go on display
without titles and without sound.
Beware of Silence opens at Michel Sourgnes Fine Art Gallery, 16 Stephenson Street, Ascot, on August 2 and runs until the end of the month.
The works, made from oils and pencils, focus on the themes such as September 11, the church, child abuse, oligarchy and societal disarray.
No single piece has a title, rather, all have been slugged ‘Without Words’ and each piece is numbered and carries a message from the artist.
An example is ‘Without Words II’: “The greatness of a nation doesn’t rise from fleeting sporting glories, but by its abilities to recognise past wrongs.”
“As I watched the live images of commercial jets being flown into the icons of Western virility, a dictum came to mind: ‘the road of modern culture leads from humanitarianism via nationalism to bestiality,” van der Kerkhoff said.
“Since then my focus towards the visual arts has changed from wanting to produce petty, pretty pictures for pretty, petty walls to communicate with the public a different perspective to the media’s propagandized truth.”