Featured Artist – Johann Booyens

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Art is not the imitation of nature, but a metaphysical complement that will enable the transcendence of nature itself. Art is the fundamental metaphysical activity of humankind. Similarly, Cézanne stated that art and nature present themselves as two parallel harmonies, existing alongside one another, thereby being equal. It is these liminal spaces, the transitional overlap between two ideas, that I find fascinating. The most common and ancient of these spaces exist in the threshold between culture and nature. To understand nature and humankind, we have to acknowledge limited understanding, It is often in this limited fallen state that we experience higher reasoning, precisely because we acknowledge shortcomings. “We have art so that we shall not die of reality”