{"id":20723,"date":"2013-06-27T05:06:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/first-simon-stone-retrospective-at-standard-bank-gallery\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T05:06:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T03:06:14","slug":"first-simon-stone-retrospective-at-standard-bank-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/first-simon-stone-retrospective-at-standard-bank-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"First Simon Stone Retrospective at Standard Bank Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibition: SIMON STONE | A Retrospective Exhibition
\nArtist: Simon Stone
\nVenue: Standard Bank Gallery
\nDates: 10 July \u2013 14 September 2013<\/p>\n

SIMON STONE | A Retrospective Exhibition,the first comprehensive review of the career of one of South Africa\u2019s foremost artists, Simon Stone, opens on 10 July at the Standard Bank Gallery. Jointly organised by the Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery (SMAC) and the Standard Bank Gallery, the exhibition spans 35 years of Stone\u2019s work, from 1978 \u2013 2013, and includes a selection of his most definitive paintings.<\/p>\n

Over a prolific career, Stone has built an impressive reputation as a painter. This exhibition identifies him as unique amongst other South African painters.<\/p>\n

Best described as a lyrical and narrative Neo-Expressionist, Stone is renowned for his various stylistic approaches, such as natural realism and symbolic collage. He juxtaposes different genres (portraiture, landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, nudes, still-lifes and domestic interiors) in paintings constructed around multiple images that provide vivid and poetic accounts of his own personal journey. Flashbacks to the troubled history of South Africa are interspersed with evocations of fabled works of art, legendary cities, beautiful women, and memories of the Cape, Johannesburg, as well as small towns and the lonely highways and byways of his beloved Karoo. He creates a semi-Surrealist, alternative world that is beautifully painted and layered with complex meanings, recurring motifs, personal metaphysics and a strange sense of the mundane. Stonersquo ;s paintings have been described as \u201cunashamedly traditional \u2013 with a twist\u201d.<\/p>\n

The location of this exhibition in Johannesburg is particularly significant as in 1980, when Stone and his wife Giovanna Biallo Stone relocated there, he gained a reputation for his grittily evocative paintings of the city. This earned him the nickname of \u201cthe inner city poet\u201d of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

This exhibition is accompanied by the publication of the first extensive monograph on Simon Stone\u2019s life and work. Entitled Simon Stone: Collected Works, it is authored by Lloyd Pollack and published by SMAC Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

This exhibition runs until 14 September 2013, at the Standard Bank Gallery, corner of Simmonds and Frederick Streets, Johannesburg.The Gallery (Tel: 011 631 4467) is open Mondays to Fridays, 08:00-16:30; on Saturdays,09:00-13:00; and is closed on Sundays and public holidays. Admission is free. For further information about Standard Bank Gallery see www.standardbanks.co.za. For more info on Simon Stone see www.simonstone.co.za.<\/p>\n

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\"Simon-Stone_-Novocain-Result_1987_Oil-on-Metal-_29-x-20cm-on-display-at-the-Standard-Bank-Gallery\"
\nSimon Stone, Novacain Result, 1987. Oil on metal, 29 x 20 cm
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\nSimon Stone, Commissioner Street, 2000. Oil on lead, 17 x 22.3 cm<\/p>\n

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\nSimon Stone, Learning, 1986. Oil on metal, 20 x 25 cm<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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