Candice Kramer - Transient Dust

CANDICE KRAMER Transient Dust CURATED BY KIM LIEBERMAN

10 - 26 March 2013

Installation view | Transient Dust | Candice Kramer | NIROXprojects

In her second solo show, being held at NIROXprojects, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, Candice Kramer continues her method of rusting metal and combining the contemporary surface of steel with the traditional medium of oil paint. By activating the rusting process in the metal - something so solid, dense, strong and uniform in nature - she expresses her curiosity with degeneration and regeneration. The themes of the passing of time and the erosion and transmission of memories and values infuse her work as well as the degeneration and regeneration of our city landscapes. She extends this theme to Johannesburg, old Johannesburg and its beauty as well as the city as it is today. We are surrounded daily by the energy of this transforming city. Kramer questions the passing of time and its seemingly inevitable eroding nature. If all materiality is transient and turns to dust what is transcendent through the generations?

ARTIST’S STATEMENT “I am intrigued by the surface of steel. Steel holds a universal truth inherent within its make up, that all time moves forward and things grow old with age. The rust and the process thereof is a manifest expression of the transient materiality of life. With the passing of time and its inevitable eroding nature, materiality turns to dust. While exploring this idea of the transitory nature of being, I am forced to ask are we a product of where we come from? Is where we come from genetically imprinted on us?

The monarch butterfly and its migratory puzzle continue to play influence on the meaning within my work.”

The butterfly that goes from Canada to Mexico and partway back lives six to nine months, but when it mates and lays eggs, it may have gotten only as far as Texas, and breeding butterflies live only about six weeks.

So a daughter born on a Texas prairie goes on to lay an egg on the South Dakota high way divider that becomes a granddaughter. That leads to a great granddaughter born in a Winnipeg backyard. Come autumn, how does she find her way back to the same grove in Mexico that sheltered her great-grandmother?”

As an orphan myself, how do we know where we come from, is the fact that my great grand parents where not from this land inform who I am? Is where I am going directed by them? Is who I am genetically imprinted on me and will it mold my future? How does a leaderless orphan find her way home?”

Reference: The New York Times Science and Technology Monarch Butterflies Pose a Migratory Puzzle

By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Pg. 6 October 2006

Installation view | Transient Dust | Candice Kramer | NIROXprojects

Installation view | Transient Dust | Candice Kramer | NIROXprojects

Installation view | Transient Dust | Candice Kramer | NIROXprojects

Installation view | Transient Dust | Candice Kramer | NIROXprojects

Installation view | Transient Dust | Candice Kramer | NIROXprojects

Installation view | Transient Dust | Candice Kramer | NIROXprojects

Market Street circa 1950 | Oil paint and rust on steel | 80 x 180cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Transient Labour (Market Street) | Oil paint and rust on steel | 60 x 84cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Mine | Oil paint, rust and marker on steel | 120 x 40cm | Candice Kramer | 2011

Yours | Oil paint, rust and marker on steel | 120 x 40cm | Candice Kramer | 2011

Market Street 2012 | Oil paint and rust on steel | 119 x 40cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Red Sky (Market Street) | Oil paint and rust on steel | 84 x 60cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Leaderless Orphan II | Oil paint and rust on steel | 85 x 60cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

The Transient Beauty of Youth | Oil paint and rust on steel | 85 x 85cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Leaderless Orphan I | Oil paint and rust on steel | 84 x 60cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Street Sweepers (Market Street) | Oil paint and rust on steel | 84 x 60cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Transient Man (Market Street) | Oil paint and rust on steel | 84 x 60cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Rorschach Test II | Oil paint and rust on steel | 45 x 45cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Rorschach Test III | Oil paint and rust on steel | 45 x 45cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Rorschach Test I | Oil paint and rust on steel | 45 x 45cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Red Sky | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Life Circles | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Schoolgirl | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Rorschach Test | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

A Momentary Oscillation | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Life Circles | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Genetic Imprint I | Pencil, rust dust and oil paint on paper | 70 x 100cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Genetic Imprint II | Pencil, rust dust and oil paint on paper | 70 x 100cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Fig Tree (Summer) | Oil paint on copper | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Fig Tree (Winter) | Oil paint on copper | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

The City Runs Through Me | Oil paint and rust on steel | 100cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Life Circles | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Life Circles | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Reflection II | Oil paint on copper | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Life Circles | Oil paint and rust on steel | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Longitude and Latitude | Oil paint on copper | 27 x 80cm | Candice Kramer | 2012

Reflection I | Oil paint on copper | 50cm in diameter | Candice Kramer | 2012

Candice Kramer in Studio

Transient Dust by Candice Kramer is curated by Kim Lieberman.

For further information please contact NIROXprojects manager Neil Nieuwoudt: T: +27 72 350 4326 E: neil.nieuwoudt@gmail.com Catalogue Design and Layout: Neil Nieuwoudt www.niroxarts.com