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Morné Visagie is a South African artist and curator who lives and works in Cape Town. Visagie completed his MFA at the Michaelis
School of Fine Art (UCT) in 2019. He spent three years (2013-2016) training as a professional printmaker at Warren Editions, a fine
art print studio in Cape Town. Visagie has had several solo exhibitions, and his work has been included in many group shows. He is
represented by Nuweland Gallery (NL) and WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery (SA).
Visagie had his first international solo exhibition in 2018 at Nuweland Gallery. “Die Bloue Wis”, was a curated exhibition of works
from 2011-2018. Growing up on Robben Island, the Atlantic Ocean that separated Visagie from the Mainland became a recurring
metaphor in his imagination, and for the past eight years, the colour blue has been the primary medium in his work; a personal symbol
of death, loss, nostalgia, memory, religion, sexuality, exile and distance.
With his recent body of work, “The Last Colour to Fade” (2019), he is researching Robben Island’s history as a place of dislocation
and loss for those who have been discriminated against (banished and incarcerated there), and the sea, in this case the Atlantic Ocean,
as a transitional space between life and death.
Drawing on personal recollections and collective history, “The Last Colour to Fade” offers a meditation on the sea as both a physical
and psychological landscape. Memories of Visagie’s childhood spent on Robben Island are interwoven with historical facts, with
narratives borrowed from literature and film, and images from art and life. Shifting between first person and third, between his own
reflections and those of others, he has found in the lives and works of Adriaan Van Zyl, Derek Jarman, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf
and others a shared affinity for water. The sea – changeable, inconstant – reveals itself to be evocative of not only promise and peril,
but of sensuality, desire and eroticism. It offers as imperfect parallel the image of the swimming pool and its attendant changing room,
evoking a history of the queer body in art and writing.
Visagie’s current and recent works are abstracted interpretations of these themes, where colour and materiality are primary. The works
share a persistent seriality, with the recurring image of a pool, the motif of tiles, and repetition of form. Most tends towards fragility,
towards a suggested impermanence, made from tissue paper, recycled materials, or stained tarlatan cloth.
School of Fine Art (UCT) in 2019. He spent three years (2013-2016) training as a professional printmaker at Warren Editions, a fine
art print studio in Cape Town. Visagie has had several solo exhibitions, and his work has been included in many group shows. He is
represented by Nuweland Gallery (NL) and WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery (SA).
Visagie had his first international solo exhibition in 2018 at Nuweland Gallery. “Die Bloue Wis”, was a curated exhibition of works
from 2011-2018. Growing up on Robben Island, the Atlantic Ocean that separated Visagie from the Mainland became a recurring
metaphor in his imagination, and for the past eight years, the colour blue has been the primary medium in his work; a personal symbol
of death, loss, nostalgia, memory, religion, sexuality, exile and distance.
With his recent body of work, “The Last Colour to Fade” (2019), he is researching Robben Island’s history as a place of dislocation
and loss for those who have been discriminated against (banished and incarcerated there), and the sea, in this case the Atlantic Ocean,
as a transitional space between life and death.
Drawing on personal recollections and collective history, “The Last Colour to Fade” offers a meditation on the sea as both a physical
and psychological landscape. Memories of Visagie’s childhood spent on Robben Island are interwoven with historical facts, with
narratives borrowed from literature and film, and images from art and life. Shifting between first person and third, between his own
reflections and those of others, he has found in the lives and works of Adriaan Van Zyl, Derek Jarman, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf
and others a shared affinity for water. The sea – changeable, inconstant – reveals itself to be evocative of not only promise and peril,
but of sensuality, desire and eroticism. It offers as imperfect parallel the image of the swimming pool and its attendant changing room,
evoking a history of the queer body in art and writing.
Visagie’s current and recent works are abstracted interpretations of these themes, where colour and materiality are primary. The works
share a persistent seriality, with the recurring image of a pool, the motif of tiles, and repetition of form. Most tends towards fragility,
towards a suggested impermanence, made from tissue paper, recycled materials, or stained tarlatan cloth.
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Solo Exhibitions:
2020 BIG ART - Nuweland Gallery
2019 The Last Colour to Fade - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2018 Die Bloue Wis - Nuweland Gallery, Oosterzee-Buren, The Netherlands
2018 FOVNTAIN - SMITH, Cape Town
2016 There are Gold Flecks in the Lapis - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2015 The Line of Beauty - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2014 Derek Jarman, 1994 - Brundyn + Gosalves Gallery, Cape Town
2013 Far From The Sea, Perhaps…Morné Visagie & Mbongeni Dlamini - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
Group Exhibitions:
2020 1-54 New York - Nuweland Gallery
2020 Art Rotterdam - Nuweland Gallery
2019 AKAA Fair Paris - Nuweland Gallery
2019 Re-Imagined Realities - OPEN 24 HRS
2018 AKAA Paris - Amy Ellenbogen (Neo Fuzz)
2017 Salad - SMITH, Cape Town
2016 A New Wave - Southern Guild, Cape Town
2015 Rhinos Are Coming - Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town
Concerted Efforts - West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Positive Tension - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2012 Context - Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town Outside the Lines: An Exploration of Abstract Materiality - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2011 Tryst - Graduate Exhibition, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town
2010 Time On Our Hands - Clock Tower Centre, Cape Town
2020 BIG ART - Nuweland Gallery
2019 The Last Colour to Fade - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2018 Die Bloue Wis - Nuweland Gallery, Oosterzee-Buren, The Netherlands
2018 FOVNTAIN - SMITH, Cape Town
2016 There are Gold Flecks in the Lapis - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2015 The Line of Beauty - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2014 Derek Jarman, 1994 - Brundyn + Gosalves Gallery, Cape Town
2013 Far From The Sea, Perhaps…Morné Visagie & Mbongeni Dlamini - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
Group Exhibitions:
2020 1-54 New York - Nuweland Gallery
2020 Art Rotterdam - Nuweland Gallery
2019 AKAA Fair Paris - Nuweland Gallery
2019 Re-Imagined Realities - OPEN 24 HRS
2018 AKAA Paris - Amy Ellenbogen (Neo Fuzz)
2017 Salad - SMITH, Cape Town
2016 A New Wave - Southern Guild, Cape Town
2015 Rhinos Are Coming - Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town
Concerted Efforts - West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Positive Tension - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2012 Context - Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town Outside the Lines: An Exploration of Abstract Materiality - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2011 Tryst - Graduate Exhibition, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town
2010 Time On Our Hands - Clock Tower Centre, Cape Town
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