gaelen pinnock

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Barricade
X Y Z
Something to Declare
Right of Admission Reserved
Fortress (Sculptures)
Fortress (Print)
Invisible Cities
Citadel typology 1
Citadel typology 2
Citadel typology 3
Dystopias
Home Series
Monoliths
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"in security" showed recently at A4 Arts Foundation.

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"X Y Z" showed at 99 Loop Gallery. in September 2021

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Work showed in the Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, 2019.

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Bouquet #1 Gates, guards, spikes, fences, cops, c

Bouquet #1

Gates, guards, spikes, fences, cops, cameras, alarms, dogs. Ubiquitous and crazy, yet kinda invisible.

My landscape informs my work. I gather scattered artefacts that litter my city and I recompose them, part parody, part catharsis.

This work was exhibited in "A Good Time" curated by @michaela_limberis at @aspireartauctions in October 2022.

Totem #3 was exhibited in "Goods", @a4artsfoundati

Totem #3 was exhibited in "Goods", @a4artsfoundation 's project space. The show, curated by @nkhensanimkhari , was called "in security."

Here is the "in security" show text:

In the June iteration of Goods, artist Gaelen Pinnock and A4 Assistant Curator Nkhensani Mkhari present "in security", a research project created in dialogue. Pinnock uses the boundaries and thresholds found within a city and its surrounding suburbs as material in a small series of sculptural assemblage works. In security is an exploration of the visual culture of power, security, land ownership, and divisive spatial planning communicated by fences, barbed wire, security cameras and more. What ideologies are embedded in these materials and how do they reflect upon our current socio-cultural landscape? Can they be transformed from tools to discourage and instil fear, into invitations for contemplation? Pinnock’s sculptures become obstacles within a project space at A4 that functions as Goods’ entrance, and emergency exit.

About Goods:

Goods is a project space for work in process and thinking aloud. Creative practitioners are invited to rapid prototype exhibition-making through monthly offerings that are shared with visitors. The location’s transitory nature as a thoroughfare is reflected in Goods’ fast-paced, open-ended, multi-disciplinary programming. The small scale of the physical space encourages light-footed navigation of curatorial and artistic practice, in its many forms.

Bouquet #2. Artefacts from a fractured landscape. $Bouquet #2. Artefacts from a fractured landscape. #sculpture #architecture #steel #geometry #fortress #enclave #city #industrial #streets #control #fragment #dystopia #gentrification #militaryindustrial #neogothic #floating #artwork #art #artist #contemporaryart #construction #neoconstructivism #security #artepovera #divisions #capetown #southafrica #gaelenpinnock$

Totem #4 was exhibited in "Goods", @a4artsfoundati

Totem #4 was exhibited in "Goods", @a4artsfoundation's project space. The show, curated by @nkhensanimkhari, was called "in security." This work is currently showing at @graham_contemporary.

Totem #1 was exhibited in "Goods", @a4artsfoundati

Totem #1 was exhibited in "Goods", @a4artsfoundation's project space. The show, curated by @nkhensanimkhari, was called "in security." (See previous post for exhibition text)

Totem #2 was exhibited in "Goods", @a4artsfoundati

Totem #2 was exhibited in "Goods", @a4artsfoundation 's project space. The show, curated by @nkhensanimkhari , was called "in security." (This work was also exhibited at the 2022 @turbineartfair and is now part of @modernartprojectssouthafrica 's collection).

Here is the "in security" show text:

In the June iteration of Goods, artist Gaelen Pinnock and A4 Assistant Curator Nkhensani Mkhari present "in security", a research project created in dialogue. Pinnock uses the boundaries and thresholds found within a city and its surrounding suburbs as material in a small series of sculptural assemblage works. In security is an exploration of the visual culture of power, security, land ownership, and divisive spatial planning communicated by fences, barbed wire, security cameras and more. What ideologies are embedded in these materials and how do they reflect upon our current socio-cultural landscape? Can they be transformed from tools to discourage and instil fear, into invitations for contemplation? Pinnock’s sculptures become obstacles within a project space at A4 that functions as Goods’ entrance, and emergency exit.

About Goods:

Goods is a project space for work in process and thinking aloud. Creative practitioners are invited to rapid prototype exhibition-making through monthly offerings that are shared with visitors. The location’s transitory nature as a thoroughfare is reflected in Goods’ fast-paced, open-ended, multi-disciplinary programming. The small scale of the physical space encourages light-footed navigation of curatorial and artistic practice, in its many forms.

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Currently showing:

3 Nov 2022 to 21 May 2023

“Art of the Space Age” group show at the Jan Rupert Art Centre, Graaff-Reinet.

Selected Projects:

Barricade
X Y Z
Something to Declare
Right of Admission Reserved
Fortress (Sculptures)
Fortress (Print)
Invisible Cities
Citadel typology 1
Citadel typology 2
Citadel typology 3
Dystopias
Home Series
Monoliths
[archived projects]