Corné Eksteen

Corné Eksteen

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

About Corné Eksteen

Eksteen (b. 1973, South Africa) is a figurative painter, renowned for his large scale confrontational portraits. His work relies on both figurative and abstract painting traditions in the creation of pieces that not only represent the physical appearance of his sitters, but also reflects on and explores their inner life and state of mind. Eksteen refers to the creation of these portraits as a quest for new archetypes. Works are created through a process that include several sessions with a sitter, followed by digital manipulation of reference materials before the actual painting is started. Paintings are created using several often experimental techniques and relies on finding a balance between the transparent and opaque, dark and light, the controlled and the expressive. The completed images are seemingly simplistic, but confronts on many levels with it’s raw emotional complexity.

Education:

BA Visual Arts

Events:

Nexus (solo exhibition) - March 2019
State of the Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Exhibitions:

Recent Exhibitions - 2018

SPACE | Rossouw Modern | Hermanus | South Africa | January 2018

Disruption | KZNSA Gallery | Durban | South Africa | January 2018

Curated Group Exhibition | The Boutique Gallery | Camps Bay | South Africa | January - June 2018

Curated Running Exhibition | Opulent Living | Cape Town | South Africa | February - May 2018

KKNK | The Showroom Art Gallery | Outshoorn | South Africa | March / April 2018

Faces | Opulent Living | Hilton Cape Town - Executive Lounge | Cape Town | South Africa | May 2018

New Dawn | Eclectica Design and Art | Cape Town | South Africa | June - August 2018

FynArts 2018 | Ces't la Vie | Rossouw Modern | Hermanus | South Africa | June 2018

Durban Artists | KZNSA Park Contemporary | Durban | South Africa | June 2018

The Art of Pairing | COMMUNITY | Durban | South Africa | June 2018

TTAG2018 | The Travelling Art Gallery / RASSELMANIA | Hildesheim | Germany | June 2018

TTAG2018 | The Travelling Art Gallery | abc.cube | Hamburg | Germany | June - July 2018

Curated Running Exhibition | Eye 4 Art | Durban | South Africa | July 2018

TTAG2018 | The Travelling Art Gallery | LUCATION depotLU Ludwigshafen am Rhein | Mannheim | Germany | July 2018

Michaelis Silent Auction 2018 | SMITH | Cape Town | South Africa | July 2018

First Thursdays Curated Group Show August 2018 | State of the Art Gallery | Cape Town | South Africa | August 2018

TTAG2018 | The Travelling Art Gallery / President Hotel | Cape Town | South Africa | August 2018

Curated Group Exhibition | Smudge Contemporary Art Gallery | Clarens | South Africa | September 2018

Aardklop | The Showroom Art Gallery | Potchefstroom | South Africa | October 2018

Curated Group Exhibition | The Showroom Art Gallery | Pretoria | South Africa | October 2018