Helge Olle Janssen - "Blocked"

Blocked
Oil on Canvas, US$ 757
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Blocked

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Oil on Canvas

W: 630mm x H: 1810mm x D: 20mm
W: 25" x H: 71" x D: 1"

Approx. Weight: 4kg

This work is unframed

Price

US$ 757 SOLD

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About "Blocked"

In this painting I am depicting how one's creative path has been blocked by Apartheid. Art deals essentially with 'truth'. Apartheid and Art are on opposite ends of the spectrum. Here we see the white wall, guillotine-like, in line with the 'artists' head, is shutting out the future. The symbols that are waiting in the foreground (background) are in fact the 'power tools' the artist still has to 'realize'. For these are the tools - his allies - that are going to enable him to survive.
I do not support the argument that this creative act (painting this painting) denies the essence of what I have just stated. My personal artistic history proves and vindicates my stance.

Helge Olle Janssen

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About Helge Olle

Photographer: Gerald Botha of Stella Nova Studios, Kloof, KZN 2016

Costume design and construction, make-up, concept: Helge Janssen.

Price Range

US$ 57-14,667

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Exhibitions

"The mechanism whereby change happens in a democracy is to speak out. And if nobody listens, then to speak louder" - David Lewis.

Education

Natal Teachers' Senior Diploma III (Botany and Zoology)

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