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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008: "Erden", artSPACE
berlin, Berlin.
2006: “Isolde Krams”, The ABSA
Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: “Lostand Found”, rubber
sculptures and art film: “It’s
so beautiful italmost looks
artificial”, Bell-Roberts
Contemporary Art Gallery,
CapeTown.
2002: “Orb”, NSA Gallery,
Durban.
“MissWorld & Company”,
performance and installation,
Johannesburg Art Gallery,
Johannesburg, during ...
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Collections:
Collections:
South African National
Gallery, Cape Town.
Johannesburg Art Museum,
Johannesburg.
Gertrude Posel Gallery,
University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Sandton Art Museum, Sandton.
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
Durban Art Museum, Durban.
Gencor Art Collection,
Johannesburg.
Johannesburg Department of
Education, Johannesburg.
Oliewenhuis Art Museum,
Bloemfontein.
Absa Bank Art Collection,
Johannesburg.
As ...
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Artist Statement for Isolde Krams
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For most of her artistic career, Isolde Krams has been working from a feminist perspective. Now her focus has shifted to a concern for the preservation of nature, animals and the earth. Her strong personal interest in conservation and environmental issues has resulted in the use of environmentally sound materials and found objects. They vary from rubber to her dog’s combed excess fur and recycled shopping bags. In Unfamiliar Turf, for instance, an abandoned garden umbrella was used to fashion the elephant’s tusks.
Krams has devised a technique in which she uses rubber latex to give her sculptures a skin-like quality. Works made from this material are soft, light, tactile and psychologically charged. These metamorphosed images use wit and irony to challenge and expand the potential of the three dimensional form.
At present, she is working on a series of over life-sized fish that have been taken out of their natural environment and are bound and gagged. These fish are “out of water”, symbolising man’s misappropriation, pillaging and even misunderstanding of nature. One of these fish was recently purchased by the Oliewenhuis Art Museum and another, Out of Water, by the Absa Bank Gallery. In her film: It is so Beautiful it almost looks Artificial, Krams’ life-sized animated rubber sculptures, Miss World, Wolf, Mensch and Schweinehund perform on the biggest mine dump in the world.
Krams is aware of the issues of land and mineral rights, pillaging of land, misappropriation of land, all of which have influenced her. In her work positive and negative symbols and images are set up to create a push and pull situation: soft hard; male and female; familiar and fantastical. Symbols of fire, knife, hand, tree… have been painted and tattooed onto “rubber paintings” and “pieces of land”.
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