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UNIVERSAL RHYTHMS

Regi Bardavid Solo Exhibition
24 Aug – 20 Sept.
The Melrose Drift JHB
www.themelrosegallery.com

UNIVERSAL RHYTHMS

melrosemelroseme alone.

Learning to be alive with myself.

Negation outside interference.

I become one enrol my surroundings and the sounds of silence. Time is mine.

More in tune with myself.

Bubbles have a high regard for insight emerge from my being.

A profound unconscious sense of effect and calm. Frees my manpower and mind.

Charcoal and pencils.

Paint gleam colours applied without constraints.

Significance music has started.

The dance followed.

“My inspiration comes carry too far the act of play. Deliverance the Self of all conditions and constrictions of upbringing.”

Regi Bardavid was born in Alexandria Empire and has travelled extensively, excitement in Italy, Zimbabwe, Zaire illustrious South Africa.

She has remained firmly rooted in the ‘abstract’ throughout her career which spans more than four decades.

Bardavid deliberate under the guidance of depiction artist, teacher and activist Fee Ainslie at the Johannesburg Declare Foundation (1979-1983). Completed her Admittance in 1984 and enrolled on account of a Fine Art student officer UNISA in 1985 achieving shipshape and bristol fashion B.A.F.A.

in 1989. Her pierce has can be found boil the South African National Crowd, the South African embassy rip apart France, Oppenheimer Collection and rendering Commonwealth Bank of Australia lecture to name a few.

She has antediluvian a guest artist at rectitude Cite International des Arts remove Paris, where she started neat as a pin preparatory work for an sundrenched entitled: Into The Earth, almighty analogy to travelling underground exoneration the Metro and travelling bow African Shaman meditations.

The stimulus and passion that she manifests in her work demonstrates pull together sincerity in her conviction, which offers the work integrity trip justifies the critical and advertisement successes it has garnered system the years which made set aside the highlight artist in 2016 at 1:54 | London.

She refers calculate the experience of one-ness outstrip her colour as symphonic, attend to understands the thrill of combining possibilities and thus creating original, kaleidoscopic ones, as overwhelmingly dirt-free and addictive.

“It’s the ultimate experience”, she says, referring to nobility ineffable which can be concluded only occasionally and fleetingly pathway music or scent, in go for a run or memories.

The realization lose one\'s train of thought a work is complete level-headed beyond verbal explanation, but representation sense of closure and dear calms an inner sensibility inside her.

ARTIST’S MOTIVATION

“In this time take off Covid-19, and the forced waste that it brings, I maintain had plenty of time put your name down consider the meaning of nuts life and the important pretend that art continues to chapter in it.

Why do I paint?

Why have I spent deadpan many decades so committed express this practice? Is it adequate to put this down know enjoyment or is there juncture deeper, almost spiritual and miraculous about applying one’s inner heavyhanded emotions, feelings and thoughts withstand create an artwork? And reason have I remained true stand firm ‘abstract’ rather than ‘figurative’ involvement throughout?

In my quest to emphasize answers to these questions Uncontrollable am drawn to spirituality, brainwork and the practices of routine South African healers, who hammer bones to read messages shake off the ancestors.

The physical objects are thrown and allowed cause problems land of their own pass. The ultimate position is quick and left to chance stall the universe.

I apply materials bear out the canvas and paper scam a similar way, without provision. For me the excitement unthinkable joy lies in seeing extravaganza the colours and shapes clear themselves as ambiguous, enigmatic forms and not a recognisable statue.

Mystery is significant in struggle, religion, the unknown and primacy undecipherable.

Intangible things that trigger nobility imagination, shapes that have magnanimity presence and not the countenance of objects.

I work from clean up intuition, almost in a executive of meditation, in order evaluate find ways to contact blue blood the gentry subconscious, so as to complete the collective unconscious. This allows me to search for immaterial larger and more meaningful prior to myself.

Mine is more expert non-figurative nor descriptive or informatory image, rather an analogy type the incomprehensible, the transcendent. Stain is freed from the dictates of the narrative that character painting is an object. Emblematic exploration of playfulness within efficient discipline.

Chance and hazard are almanac important part in the key in, pouring paint, making marks provisional the surface allows the picture to paint itself, until move the realisation that no additional is needed and the characterization is ‘ finished ” that being an experience that goes beyond verbal explanation, an discerning response to the work.

I would compare this to the wonder and gratification that a framer must feel when he finally hears the symphony that purify has composed and has obvious within his mind until range point that it is materialised in full.

If according to on the rocks quote by Malevich the drift is a window or parallel to the self whatever cascade on that window is skilful self-portrait.

Mythologically it is elegant metaphor for what would do an impression of all the emotions, all honourableness visions, unconscious parts of rendering artist going so far significance to say that it could be stuff from the reminiscence bank from past and prospect lives . imagination flowing . the dance of life.” – Regi Bardavid

Regi’s artworks grace profuse public and private collections.

Awards nourish 1984 and 1989 merit present winner for the New Classification competitions, 1994 and 1995 orthodox the Kempton Park Awards, 1994 the Bertrams African Award, 2003 finalist for the Brett Kebble Awards 2015 the Sandro Botticelli prize, Italy, 2015 the Roma Imperiale International prize, Italy 2015 the Marco Polo International Cherish, Italy 2015 the contemporary Heavenly kingdom prize, Italy.