Calamity, 2006
Tête d’un homme, 2006
Five authentic discoveries, 2006
all works by Wim Botha, artist from Johannesburg.
“Botha presents only extracts and abstracted moments of situations rather than elucidating circumstances. But he invariably embeds meaning in his choice of materials: the associations of shards of glazed ceramic, parquet flooring made from Rhodesian teak, artificial marble and gilt offer intimations of the artist’s simultaneous engagement with the particularities of his own – and our – contemporary world.”