I 'm interested in signs which were an early form of writing. Signs can tell us things, prompt associations and so on. Even highly complex computer code is broken down to and stored as two signs, numbers or bits: 0 and 1. So a whole lot of signs can, depending on how they're assembled and read, create meaning.

In Chinese "writing" and "painting" are two apects of the same word. Recently I've also used light-reflecting materials in my works as light is an essential aspect of our existence, and I wanted to underline that. The three works on board are experiments in "writing a "painting" using signs and light.

These "Code Paintings" were being created when the invitation to "Cornelius Gene" came; I see then as an extension of that idea.

Sally Arnold

 

ARNOLD Sally

1954 Born
1974 Diploma Fine Art, Cape Polytechnic, Cape Town
1983 Magister Kunstgeschichte, Universität Frankfurt

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)

1998 Primart Gallery, Cape Town
1999 European Investment Bank, Luxemburg
2001 Galerie 19 Rouge, Luxemburg
AVA/Metropolitan Gallery, Cape Town

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

1999
Conflux, Tendances Mikado, Luxemburg
Palais du Duc, Dijon
AVA, Cape Town
Postcards, Axis Gallery, New York
Cercle Artistique Luxembourgeois, Villa Vauban, Luxemburg
2000
Transafricana, Fondazione Carisbo, Bologna
e-museum of New Art, Detroit (Internet Project)
Entre deux femmes, Schleifmillen New Projects,Luxemburg
2001
Contemporary Art from Luxembourg, European Central Bank,
Frankfurt
Cercle Artistique Luxembourgeois, Villa Vauban, Luxemburg
2002
International Flag Art Festival, Seoul
L'Imaginaire Féminin, Lido di Venezia
Cercle Artistique Luxembourgeois, Villa Vauban
B/C2, Bettemburg

Sleeping Beauty

Installation 2001
Painted wire
Swarovski crystal
beads and black light.
H 140cm.

Sleeping Beauty

Photos: Serge Garcia Lang

sallyarnold@sudafricana.com

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