Zander Blom
Monochrome Paintings III
The third instalment in Zander Blom's Monochrome Paintings series, this booklet is published on the occasion of the artist's exhibition of new monochrome canvases at Stevenson Johannesburg. Considering the evolution of this body of work, the artist writes:
I realised recently that there has been an undeniable relationship to depth, gravity and suggested three-dimensionality in most of my work over the last twenty years. When you consider it from this angle, everything connects. From the linocut collages of concentric circles made up of targets, to the photographs of black shapes floating in the corners of my old Brixton bedroom, to the abstract paintings on raw Belgian linen with the oil-stain halos around thick chunks of paint and marbling techniques, to the monochrome work. Through all of this I simply haven’t been drawn to pure flatness in the Greenbergian tradition. Perhaps I just couldn’t ever bring a painting to life following this dogma?
Published by Stevenson | November 2024
Softcover, 48 pages | Price: R200
