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Art & Soul: South African artist creates visual poetry
This fall, South African artist Abrie Fourie's "Oblique" photography series takes center stage at SCAD's Gutstein Gallery .
Curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg, this moody, majestic collection of photographs shot on four continents offers thought-provoking glimpses of life on Earth. Using old-school camera equipment, Fourie focuses his lens on unexpectedly poetic details, from a graffiti-covered streetscape in Berlin, Germany, to crumpled metal truck panels in Pretoria, South Africa. The result is a series of images that is at once alienating and inviting, effortlessly juxtaposing the personal and the universal.
Fourie published his "Oblique" monograph in 2011 and has since exhibited the project at venues including the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Johannesburg Art Gallery and SMAC Art Gallery in Cape Town. Fourie recently spoke with the Savannah Morning News from his studio in Berlin .
How did the "Oblique" series first get started? What inspired you to create this particular body of work?
I was living in South Africa, where the fences go higher and the electric wire fences go stronger, with my wife, who is German, and our twins. We came home one day and everything was stolen. In 2007, we decided to rel
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ABRIE FOURIE
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ PROJECTS
2003. "Whatever/Wherever", João Ferriera Gallery, Cape Town
2003. observatório # 4 Garden of Words Willem Boshoff / Whatever, Wherever Abrie Fourie,
CAMOUFLAGE, Brussels, Belguim
2001. "Philippians 4.8" New Media Exhibition, MTN Art Institute, MTN Sciencenter, Cape Town
2000. "Memorial(Upside Down Bikes)" Museum of Temporary Art, Observatory, Cape Town
1998. "Does not the ear test words like the tongue taste food", The Rembrant van Rijn Art Gallery,
Johannesburg
1998. "Ilayibri ekufutshane indawoni imuziyem/ iartgallery ?", C.P. Nel Museum , Oudtshoorn
1997. "Imagine No Petrol Stations Inside Inside this House", Michael House, Pretoria
1996. "Inside this House", 1993-1996, Verwoerdburg Art Gallery, Centurion
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002. "FNB VITA Awards" Goodman Gal ery, Johannesburg
2002. "ABSA Atelier", ABSA Towers, Johannesburg
2002. "ENEMIES/ VYANDE" with Santu Mofokeng, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn
2001. "JOUBERT PARK PUBLIC ART PROJECT 2001", Johannesburg Art
Gallery and Joubert Park Precinct
2001. "ABSA Atelier", ABSA Towers, Johannesburg
2001. "switch on/off" curated by