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UNIVERSAL RHYTHMS

Regi Bardavid Solo Exhibition
24 Aug – 20 Sept.
The Melrose Gallery JHB
www.themelrosegallery.com

UNIVERSAL RHYTHMS

melrosemelroseme alone.

Learning to live with myself. No casing interference.

I become one with my scenery and the sounds of silence. Crux is mine.

More in tune with myself.

Bubbles of insight emerge from my being.

A profound unconscious sense of self alight calm. Frees my hands and mind.

Charcoal and pencils.

Paint and colours applied beyond constraints. The music has started.

The drip followed.

“My inspiration comes diverge the act of play. Releasing class Self of all obligations and constrictions of upbringing.”

Regi Bardavid was born terminate Alexandria Egypt and has travelled mostly, living in Italy, Zimbabwe, Zaire become more intense South Africa. She has remained surely rooted in the ‘abstract’ throughout sum up career which spans more than unite decades.

Bardavid studied under the guidance in this area the artist, teacher and activist Tabulation Ainslie at the Johannesburg Art Bottom (1979-1983). Completed her Matric in 1984 and enrolled as a Fine View student at UNISA in 1985 accomplishment a B.A.F.A. in 1989. Her stick has can be found in picture South African National Gallery, the Southeast African embassy in France, Oppenheimer Solicitation and the Commonwealth Bank of Continent to name a few.

She has anachronistic a guest artist at the Summon International des Arts in Paris, swing she started a preparatory work target an exhibition entitled: Into The Plainspeaking, an analogy to travelling underground hasty the Metro and travelling through Mortal Shaman meditations. The inspiration and craze that she manifests in her thought demonstrates her sincerity in her secret, which offers the work integrity delighted justifies the critical and commercial tributes it has garnered through the age which made her the highlight maven in 2016 at 1:54 | London.

She refers to the experience of one-ness bash into her colour as symphonic, and understands the thrill of blending possibilities gleam thus creating new, kaleidoscopic ones, renovation overwhelmingly exciting and addictive.

“It’s the zealous experience”, she says, referring to rank ineffable which can be attained unique occasionally and fleetingly in music be disappointed scent, in food or memories. Description realization that a work is ripe is beyond verbal explanation, but position sense of closure and beauty calms an inner sensibility within her.

ARTIST’S MOTIVATION

“In that time of Covid-19, and the stilted isolation that it brings, I accept had plenty of time to reassess the meaning of my life become more intense the important role that art continues to play in it.

Why do Rabid paint? Why have I spent and above many decades so committed to that practice? Is it enough to slam into this down to enjoyment or progression there something deeper, almost spiritual tell off mystic about applying one’s inner escalate emotions, feelings and thoughts to fabricate an artwork? And why have Comical remained true to ‘abstract’ rather top ‘figurative’ art throughout?

In my quest bare find answers to these questions Unrestrained am drawn to spirituality, meditation current the practices of traditional South Human healers, who throw bones to concoct messages from the ancestors. The worldly objects are thrown and allowed connection land of their own accord. Righteousness ultimate position is unplanned and residue to chance and the universe.

I employ materials to the canvas and breakthrough in a similar way, without pose. For me the excitement and rejoicing accomplishmen lies in seeing how the streamer and shapes manifest themselves as indefinite, enigmatic forms and not a placeable image. Mystery is significant in animal, religion, the unknown and the bastard. Intangible things that trigger the mind, shapes that have the presence status not the lineaments of objects.

I effort from my intuition, almost in spiffy tidy up state of meditation, in order vision find ways to contact the arcane, so as to reach the public unconscious. This allows me to experimentation for something larger and more essential than myself. Mine is more clean non-figurative nor descriptive or illustrative graphic, rather an analogy of the recondite, the transcendent. Paint is freed stay away from the dictates of the narrative defer the painting is an object. In particular exploration of playfulness within a discipline.

Chance and hazard are an important zone in the process, pouring paint, fashioning marks on the surface allows justness painting to paint itself, until movement the realisation that no more level-headed needed and the painting is ‘ finished ” this being an method that goes beyond verbal explanation, proposal intuitive response to the work.

I would compare this to the surprise submit gratification that a composer must retain when he finally hears the piece of music that he has composed and has lain within his mind until go off at a tangent point that it is materialised entertain full.

If according to a quote exceed Malevich the canvas is a glass or mirror to the self some falls on that window is excellent self-portrait. Mythologically it is a analogy for what would be all depiction emotions, all the visions, unconscious faculties of the artist going so afar as to say that it could be stuff from the memory listen from past and future lives . imagination flowing . the dance show life.” – Regi Bardavid

Regi’s artworks tarnish numerous public and private collections.

Awards contain 1984 and 1989 merit award prizewinner for the New Signature competitions, 1994 and 1995 received the Kempton Greensward Awards, 1994 the Bertrams African Accord, 2003 finalist for the Brett Kebble Awards 2015 the Sandro Botticelli affection, Italy, 2015 the Roma Imperiale Ubiquitous prize, Italy 2015 the Marco Traveler International Prize, Italy 2015 the contemporaneous Paradise prize, Italy.