Robert Singsby’s “CC- Unlimited Power” Showing at the Irma Stern Museum Gallery

Until 26 June 2010

With titles like "Conspicuous consumption" and "Blind rage at Rooiwal", Slingsby's characteristic cutting edge concepts, capture

the need for change. For those who associate Slingsby with rock art, the thread continues. Using the marginalised Richtersveld

community, home to some of the oldest Southern African rock engravings, the "first" people and an unresolved conflict with the

diamond mines, he demonstrates the consequences of mankind's greed and lust for power.

Two years in the making, it deals with the current and provocative subject of green consciousness. This powerful exhibition

communicates its point readily. Using the motor vehicle and bones (representing our carbon fuelled economy) as icons and

painted on massive canvases, the point is driven home predominantly in the colour red.

While this focus inescapably rests on both Slingsby and South Africa, he uses this platform exhibiting relevant art to confront

global issues. These are dealt with in the South African context and provocative manner, making this historical art exhibition

worthy of public attention.

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