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Repetition series 2025: Film image #89-104, or A room with a waterfall
This body of work explores the slippery terrain between perception, memory, and meaning, unfolding across a sequence of painterly images that resemble stills from a film yet remain uncap ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2024: Local image #113-128, or Self portrait
30 August 2024 When I got saved, did I instantly become sinless? I do not think so. By receiving the Holy Spirit, did I suddenly stop sinning? Did I suddenly achieve the perfection and glory of God ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2024: t/here e/motion
25 September 2024 Guardians, wardens, observers, watchers, beings, persons— each one with its own unique personality. Some harder and crustier, others seem softer and lighter. Fire and wate ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2024: Local image #80-96, or I am trying not to be an aesthetic retard
14 February 2024 Holomovement, the implicate order, David Bohm—the text that makes all other text possible. The pervasive vertical pattern is folded into reality, where everything is connected so ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2023: Local image #64-79, or 'Nice to meet you, how blonde your locks, why do you flicker and snow?'
5 September 2023 How still they lie. So mysteriously still. Do they speak to me or to something else? Heights and plunging depths, into vast oceans, where ’things’ swim. Am I to fly f ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2023: Film image #73-88, or I had a dream
11 August 2023 Fragmented self-identity. The same image is repeated, not simply the same, not simply different, not simply inside, not simply outside, blurring the boundaries of identity - me and n ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2023: Film image #57-72, or Tend your garden
25 April 2023 All lined up on the wall, balancing precariously on nails. The epistemological value of difference—comparing distinctions, subjective accounts of an event, of life—thus, creating ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2022: Local image #48-63, or Savage bloom
View video and special offer >> I have set up the paintings on the wall, precariously, each one balancing on a nail. It took me a long time to set this up, so I really hope that we have a good sess ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2022: Local image #32-47
Some things can only appear when all externality has gone; they have a will of their own. I manipulate the material, an externality, and try to conform it to what I think is my will; again, an externa ... View collection>>
Exhibition 2022: Savage bloom
[17 October 2022] A two person art exhibition by Danielle Malherbe and Wayne Vivier at Trent Gallery in Pretoria. Opening 4 November 18h30. Closes 16 November. Trent Gallery in Pretoria hosts a two ... View collection>>
Repetition series 2022: Film image #53-56
11 August 2022 Displayed side by side , panorama, long wide horizon , rolling hills, each valley contains a mother and child couple looking out toward the sea with their backs to the viewer, making ... View collection>>
Work from 2021-22
There is a wondrous space, or experience, created by the image and the text. That is what triggers me when I look at other artists work. It is so unique to the experience of visual art and completely ... View collection>>
Solo show 2021: I am trying to remember who you are
'A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.' -Gertrude Stein 'I guided you on Geryon Shall I do less now we are nearer God?' -Dante’s Divine Comedy How would I paint you? I would not be able ... View collection>>
Work from 2019 - 2020
I have been using repetition as a device lately. It highlights the subtle differences between the copies and the contingency within the artmaking process. When taken together, I wonder if these repeti ... View collection>>
Solo show 2019: Broken images @ Longstreet art lovers 1932
'You cannot say, or guess, for you know only a heap of broken images’ - The waste land, T.S. Eliot This body of work consists out of paintings inspired by exotic images from film, local images fr ... View collection>>
Work from 2018
In this year my work has revolved around themes inspired by reading T.S Eliot, a modernist christian poet and critic. His most famous poem, ’The wasteland’ (1922), is a compression of history and ... View collection>>
Solo exhibition 2017:
I'm looking for my missing piece @ Longstreet art lovers
Artist statement: This exhibition consists of a series of paintings that draw from the exotic realm of film, landscapes linked to family and childhood, and hyper-local images. In this way, I attempt ... View collection>>
Work from 2016
My work generally grapples with the discourses that shape my environment and community. I draw from the various fields of study in which I have engaged, including, aesthetics, philosophy, postmodernis ... View collection>>
Solo exhibition 2015:
Film images @ Longstreet art lovers
Artist statement: I am interested in the dichotomy of man and machine and the affects of modernisation on society and the individual psyche. The inherent mechanical impersonality embodied in a machine ... View collection>>
Group exhibition 2014:
Out of drive @ Jan Cilliers
Drive - desire. Desire springs from lack. Desire is the part of the demand that cannot be articulated in a request, the part that language cannot capture. What one really desires cannot be attained an ... View collection>>
Group exhibition 2013:
Getting there @ Kievits Kroon
Artist statement: My paintings often attempt to invoke a sense of separation or loss of the real, which flows from the realization that the modern world has lost a ‘fullness’ (or a ‘fuller-nessâ ... View collection>>
Solo exhibition 2013:
Out of the life aquatic with Steve Zissou
@ Arts association Pretoria
Press release: Visual artist Wayne Vivier’s third solo exhibition entitled Out of the life aquatic with Steve Zissou will open at the Association of arts Pretoria. Vivier uses paint and film in his ... View collection>>
Group exhibition 2012:
Between storms @ Kievits Kroon
Participating artists: Diek Grobler, Retha Buitendach, Louise Barnard, Karin Smith Artist statement: From the millions of images in a feature film approximately three to four-hundred images are ... View collection>>
Solo exhibition 2012:
Out of the village @ Artspace JHB
Artist statement: Taking M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller ’The village’ (2004) as its archive, this exhibition follows postmodernism’s commitment to deconstruct the metanarratives of modernity. M ... View collection>>
Out of Koyaanisqatsi 3D 2011-2012
This series of sculpture is inspired from Reggio’s 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi. Characterised by the absence of classic narrative elements such as dialogue, actors and plot, Koyaanisqatsi foregrounds im ... View collection>>
Out of creation 2011
A collection of paintings which draw from the movie 'Creation' (2009) ... View collection>>
Solo exhibition 2010:
Out of Koyaanisqatsi @ Platform on 18th
Artist statement: This series of paintings is based on selected movie stills out of Koyaanisqatsi, a non-narrative film directed by Godfrey Reggio and released in 1983. The film contentiously comments ... View collection>>
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