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Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1975, lives and works in London and Paris
Post Graduate year, ENSBA (National Superior School of Fine-Arts), Paris, 2000 - 2001
National Diploma of Fine-Arts (with distinctions), ENSBA, Paris, 1994 - 1999
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Witnessing the rapid transformation and collapse of all infrastructure in my country of origin, Zimbabwe, my reaction was to employ a similar form of entropy in the painting protocol. The entropy of my pictorial process serves not to describe a negative state of affairs, but to affirm my faith in paint and its capacity to speak of the flux and rapid change of our era.
The simultaneity of images that is the core of my images making process provokes an “up-ending” which speaks to me in paint : between balance and loss of balance, the image becomes active and speaks about our times. Using the awesome arrangements wrought by inhuman forces such as typhoons, and earthquakes, or man made chaos, the imagery functions as a metaphor for the process of painting itself : building on the canvas surface a series of pictorial “events” which reflect what is happening in my head and in my painting, and simultaneously in the world around us.
By multiplying the documentary sources of my images, the painting escapes description : it engenders its own details and debris, and the finished work does not refer back to a specific place, instead a more generic and universal idea.
- Duncan Wylie, London, 2017
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Post Graduate year, ENSBA (National Superior School of Fine-Arts), Paris, 2000 - 2001
National Diploma of Fine-Arts (with distinctions), ENSBA, Paris, 1994 - 1999
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Witnessing the rapid transformation and collapse of all infrastructure in my country of origin, Zimbabwe, my reaction was to employ a similar form of entropy in the painting protocol. The entropy of my pictorial process serves not to describe a negative state of affairs, but to affirm my faith in paint and its capacity to speak of the flux and rapid change of our era.
The simultaneity of images that is the core of my images making process provokes an “up-ending” which speaks to me in paint : between balance and loss of balance, the image becomes active and speaks about our times. Using the awesome arrangements wrought by inhuman forces such as typhoons, and earthquakes, or man made chaos, the imagery functions as a metaphor for the process of painting itself : building on the canvas surface a series of pictorial “events” which reflect what is happening in my head and in my painting, and simultaneously in the world around us.
By multiplying the documentary sources of my images, the painting escapes description : it engenders its own details and debris, and the finished work does not refer back to a specific place, instead a more generic and universal idea.
- Duncan Wylie, London, 2017
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1975