Curate Magazine - The Line Issue

M A G A Z I N E

- THE LINE ISSUE -ISSUE NO. 1 - JANUARY 2015

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A LINE IS AN IDENTIFIABLE PATH CREATED BY A POINT MOVING IN SPACE. IT IS ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND CAN VARY IN WIDTH, DIRECTION, AND LENGTH. LINES OFTEN DEFINE THE EDGES OF A FORM. LINES CAN BE HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL,

OR DIAGONAL, STRAIGHT OR CURVED, THICK OR THIN.

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FEATURED ARTISTS

AMOR COETZEE

MARIA MAGDALENA

WERNER FISMER

A. MIMURA

WAYNE MATTHEWS

BERNICE MANNIE

STIKSTOK

VASYL KOLOTUSHA

AMOR COETZEE

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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Amor Coetzee is an interesting person with drawings to match. When asked for a bio, Amor’s write up sets its own mood and pace and cannot be re-written or rephrased so here it is; to you from Amor.

“The first memory, the first line of my story, though brief, opens with me propped in a wicker basket mounted on the tail of my great aunt’s 1962 Triumph Bonneville, the dry Namib wind in our hair, the red dunes racing

by.

Mostly childhood was spent living in a chestnut log cabin built on the back of a handsome horse named Prince. From this vantage point I grew into an adult whilst my hands remained those of a child, inconsolably

small.

This is truth. Although I cannot be sure, I think that in many ways the hand thing was a consequence not unrelated to the time on horse.

Now, in my Garden perched on an old foot beneath an older Table, I draw my time into knot, always with a cat and rabbit seated on either side of me. I think they are beside themselves with worry. Tomorrow is for

me still unknown and seems set to remain unknown.

How to draw a path to Self- awareness:

1. Daily self- reflection. Feel oneself feeling one’s feelings.

2. In the mind’s eye articulate identified feeling in the form of an aphorism. In other words a metaphorical phrase which embodies the feeling and which will become the title to the drawing.

3. Render said aphorism in clean black line.”

AMOR COETZEECAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

‘TRYING TO CARRY A WATERFALL’

‘BREATHING UNDER WATER’

‘HIDING UNDER A WAVE’

MARIA MAGDALENA

PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA

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© 2014 MARIA MAGDALENA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Maria Magdalena van Wyk was named using traditional Afrikaans naming customs - the second daughter named after the paternal family name. Magdalena is from the small town of Port Elizabeth where she

completed her Bachelor of Technology Graphic Design in 2010 (Cum Laude).

Magdalena has since been living and working in Cape Town where she is currently the Senior Packaging Designer for a small company in Woodstock. Using her signature aesthetic Magdalena has given a visual

voice to local and international brands such as MasterChef, Accessorize, Angry Birds and Boardmans.

Her featured line artworks come from Magdalena’s Wander Collection which she describes as a series of snippets from her ordinary life made extraordinary through lines of ink. She further elaborates that she is searching for an elegant simplicity through a complex series of lines. Through the Wander Collection she aims to create a platform for the local art conscious buyer to collect limited edition prints and support the

local illustration community in South Africa.

MARIA MAGDALENAPORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA

‘WINONA’


‘ANTOINETTE’


‘FRIDA’


‘CARMEN’


‘ALICE’


‘ABYSS’


‘URBAN FORAGER’


‘WE LIVE IN TREEHOUSES’

WERNER FISMER

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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Werner Fismer is a visual artist and illustrator born in Cape Town, based in Kimberley. His work most often takes the form of colourful digital paintings (produced through use of a graphics tablet), ink and pencil drawings; sometimes a combination of both. While subjects vary, he describes the content of his art as

introspective.

In 2014, prints of Werner’s digital paintings were selected to be part of the Northern Cape Artists group exhibition at the William Humphrey’s Art Gallery.

WERNER FISMERCAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

‘CARVE FLOW’

WERNER FISMERCAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

‘MARS ALONE’

A. MIMURA

LISBON, PORTUGAL

A. Mimura on Facebook

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The work of A.Mimura is driven and based around expressionism and eroticism, creating a very unique visual language only spoken by one’s innermost senses rather than words. The images provided by Mimura are fascinating in a sense that they transport one to a completely different world - a world so withdrawn from

reality that it has its own version of it.

In line with the works of past artists such as Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, Mimura’s work goes far beyond the sensation of reality and reaches towards a rather bent perspective of everyday life.

A. MIMURALISBON, PORTUGAL

‘WHAT SOUL BLOWS IN THE SOUL OF THE ARTIST’


‘UNTITLED’


‘MODEL AND PAINTER’


‘WRITER’

WAYNE MATTHEWS

PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA

© 2014 WAYNE MATTHEWS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Wayne Matthews on Underculture Contemporary

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Wayne Matthews was born in 1982 in a grey coal mining town called Vereeniging situated on the Vaal River in the nether regions of the Gauteng Province. There, faced with grey winters coloured primarily by

soot from veld-fires, he sought a richly tinted interior life.

He started his artistic edification, informally and unceremoniously in 1998 at a then Johannesburg based artist, Spies Venter, in exchange for removing his clothes as an artist’s model. After cunningly vanishing from the inept socialisation of a plethora of model C schools Wayne completed several short courses at UNISA including certificate courses in Visual Literacy and Painting. In 2003 Mr. Matthews enrolled at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, then Port Elizabeth Technikon, and concluded his B. Tech (Cum Laude) in 2006. Despite majoring in Painting, however, he ironically produced mainly sculptural works that

fall within the assemblage and installation idioms.

From 2002 Wayne has participated in numerous group exhibitions both locally and internationally and has sold work to several anonymous benefactors. During 2007 and the second successful year of entering work for the ABSA l’Atelier he received a Merit award for his labours and the labours of his work titled Europa’s Libation. Since then he has found employment at the NMMU as both Third year Art Theory lecturer and as “Painting” lecturer for second-and third year students and has also had the authorization of formally fostering several B. Tech fine art students of his own. More recently he has found temporary lodgings in Pretoria where, as a lecturer, he has distributed information regarding art historical theories and practises while also transferring drawing and creative writing skills under the employ of a Private tertiary institution of education. Mr. Matthews is currently working as Gallery Manager and Curator at the ArtEC gallery in Port Elizabeth. He has shrewdly and consistently used his time to disseminate dangerous ideas regarding the

arts and has acted as promulgator of mixed media and cross disciplinary artistic practices.

Within the next year he intends to enrol at one of our countries leading, and presently still unwitting, institutions with the intention of furthering his studies.

Note: All of the following works were produced in 2014.

WAYNE MATTHEWSPORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA

‘THAT POLYANDROUS FALLOW’


‘ALL THE BROTHERS OF THE GLORIOUS CO. & R.A.N. ARE SISTERS’


‘ADORATION OF THE VAGI_ GILDED FOR WETTER AND FOR WORSE’


‘ KANT’S CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT’


‘THE IMMANENT SUBLIMATION OF THE DARK CONTINENT’


‘ACCIDENTAL DISSEMINATION OF THE SPIRIT OF WONDERMENT’

BERNICE MANNIE

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

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© 2014 BERNICE MANNIE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Zoleka Bernice Mannie, a 21 year old South African creative brand communication student has an interesting approach to graphic art that is fed by minimalism, or in an instance where minimalism is involved, one could say her work is starved by it - affording no gifts to greed, her simple yet intriguing compositions of lines and shapes or lines creating shapes draw one in the way a Rothko would if it were created now in

the digital age.

BERNICE MANNIEJOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

‘CHIMERA WHITE’


‘PARADOX’


‘LOBOTOMY’


‘DISCORD’

STIKSTOK is a pseudonymous Dutch contemporary artist. His current work subject consists mainly of a wide range of mobster movie inspired illustrated pieces. The all black and white series have a clean and

decisive look. An interesting stylized contrast between harshness and humor.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the mafia. People who don’t take shit from nobody. The mob found a way to go around the system that was put upon them, and take matters in to their own hands by creating a system

of their own.”

STIKSTOKNETHERLANDS

‘SAD’

STIKSTOKNETHERLANDS

‘FRANK’

STIKSTOKNETHERLANDS

‘BAMBOO LOUNGE’

STIKSTOKNETHERLANDS

‘FRANK CAMERON’

STIKSTOKNETHERLANDS

‘ACCIDENTAL DISSEMINATION OF THE SPIRIT OF WONDERMENT’

STIKSTOKNETHERLANDS

‘MADE’ (1 TO 3)

Born in 1989, Vasyl Kolotusha graduated in 2012 receiving his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture.

Since then, Vasyl has worked at Enki and Bistraffic Games as a 2D game artist and has since became a freelance artist until today. His work has been featured on various platforms ranging from online to real-life

with a Group Art Show in Portland, USA in 2014 titled “Srirachapocalypse.”

Vasyl’s “Lights” are a brilliant display of line work from a completely unthought-of perspective. Here he’s displayed interestingly how digital media can be used flexibly and efficiently to create 2D art that has a

place in the 3D world.

VASYL KOLOTUSHACHERKASY, UKRAINE

‘LIGHTS 1’


‘LIGHTS 2’


‘LIGHTS 3’



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