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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 59.1 W x 39.4 H x 2 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The painting was created during de Beer’s BAFA final exhibition in 2015. It was painted using acrylic paint, printmaking ink and paint powder. The abstract imagery was created using a laser cut piece of acetate engraved with a page out of the dictionary where the words dyslexic ought to have existed but did not. The word dyslexic did not enter the English dictionary until the late 1980s. The late inclusion of the word and its meaning adds to the misconceptions and stigmata surrounding the learning disorder. Many people, including educators, don’t fully understand the learning disability. Like most works created for the exhibition the main concept that de Beer explored was that through her dyslexic experience words often carried no coded meaning, but rather that they existed as abstract visual forms. In this piece she explores this concept whereby the lettering in the painting only act as visual forms rather than carriers of meaning.
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2015
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:
Acrylic on Canvas
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
59.1 W x 39.4 H x 2 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
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South Africa.
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Elize de Beer
South Africa
I graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine art in Cape Town in 2015 with my BAFA majoring in printmaking. The following year I graduated with my honors in Curatorship in 2016. Since then I have been working within the creative industry both in galleries and currently in a framing studio. Over the years I have also taken part of various printmaking, bookbinding and book restoration internships to further my practical knowledge. During my studies and in my current artist practice, books and artist-books have been one of the main sources of inspiration for my work. This is rooted in the fact that I am dyslexic and my relationship with books and words is slightly different to the average reader. I have always been fascinated by a book's objectivity, how they act as carriers of knowledge and by words as imagery rather than carriers of meaning; as I could often not access the codes within words. Through my work I continue to explore the those relationships in the form of printmaking and book arts; further developing and expanding those concepts of words, knowledge and books.
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