Avant Car Guard
Monday, 6 July 2009
AVANT CAR GUARD are a Johannesburg-based three member visual art collective, exhibiting and authoring as a singular artist. They are comprised of Zander Blom, Jan-Henri Booyens and Michael MacGarry, all individual artists in their own right. They have produced three publications on their work, titled Volume I, Volume II and Volume III respectively, and have exhibited at a national and international level for several years, with their production being based on a conceptual, self-reflexive and satirical approach to the art world – it’s markets, practitioners as well as the process of creating itself. This is manifest across multidisciplinary means; through photography, sculpture, performance, multiples, installation and painting.
The following is from Volume III, consisting of large-scale paintings, editioned photographic works, editioned prints as well as a limited edition publication. This exhibition continues AVANT CAR GUARD’s satirical caricature of both the local contemporary art world, its personalities, mechanics and processes, as well as the South African political landscape, coupled with a wry sense of humor and a lyrical aesthetic. (What If the World)