FNB Art Joburg
08-10.09.23
Sandton Convention
Centre, Johannesburg,
South Africa​

Practice of Interest:

“A dive into Raymond Fuyana’s Lucid Dreams”

by Raymond Fuyana

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Known for his vividly coloured acrylic and oil paintings of escapist multidimensional landscapes, Raymond Fuyana is a South African-based Zimbabwean painter. A feature in this week’s Practice Of Interest series, Fuyana lets us in on his process, his themes and the ways his everyday materialises into surreal depictions.

Describing his style as contemporary surrealism, Fuyana’s dreamlike depictions present the familiar in fragmented, ungrounded and disjointed ways. “My process of work begins with remembering my dreams and how I imagine certain aspects of my dreams incorporated into a composition with some of my interests and landscapes I would like to visit,” starts Fuyana who then moves on to sketching before evolving the idea into an oil painting once he is happy with the composition.

Distorting contexts we know by incorporating spatial sensibilities from his dreams and imagination to get lost in, Fuyana’s practice also serves as environmental intervention. “I would describe my practice as an intervention into how the environment is being affected by many of the ways we act as a society,” explains Fuyana.

A deaf person, Fuyana’s process begins with this consideration and how he positions himself in the contemporary world. “The earlier works I created incorporated a lot of emojis in them, simply because that was an easier way for me to communicate and express myself a lot more,” explains the artist. Replacing this is Fuyana’s take on self-portraiture: painting himself in solitude, the artist seems to speak to the disconnects he often experiences.

Lucid: Fuyana’s landscapes are the result of the artist’s interest in colour study. “I think oil painting allows me to depict my subconscious mind. Although it takes time to dry, there’s a lot I can achieve visually using oil paint as a medium.”

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Friday, 8th September

Collection tour of Anglo American

Location
144 Oxford Rd, Rosebank

Date
8 September 2023
11am

Event details

The Anglo American art and object collection is a combination of art collected over several decades through four different companies: Anglo American, de Beers Group, Anglo American Platinum and Kumba Iron Ore.

The collection comprises of 3600 works, with around 1000 pieces in the collection on display at the newly commissioned Rosebank offices. Although vast, the collection experienced an acquisition hiatus from the early 2000s until 2021 creating a significant gap in the collection’s representation of contemporary art. The collection now has a dedicated curator, Megan Scott, tasked with its cataloguing and digitisation, opening an exciting new chapter which will see the gradual procurement of significant works that reflect our contemporary South African and African art world.

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