Daniel Blignaut is an architect and artist (Mishou Sanchez, in Tampa, is another). About this series, he says: "My work unabashedly aims to achieve
aesthetic beauty by evoking a primal fascination with the allure of gold
and the aesthetic pleasure of color, pattern and texture — as evident
throughout human visual history". Also, " I employ something similar to an Iconographic template to portray their
presence, complexity, and majesty. I use trees as a metaphor for the
human condition — for instance, the visual measure of the passage of
time, the seasonal cycle of death and rebirth, and the diversity of
personalities."
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| Daniel Blignaut, "White Plus Red Makes Black" |
These paintings look like mosaics. Gridded like graph paper, each square acts in a pixel-like manner. The grid accentuates the organicity of the arboreal forms. There are levels and layers in many.
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| Daniel Blignaut, "First Snow". |
On the left we see
"First Snow", where the passage of time and turning of the seasons enter the picture figuratively. Note how heavily structured this work is.
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| Daniel Blignaut, "Final Chapter" |
Congratulations to Daniel Blignaut and the Studio at 620 for an interesting show.
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Luis
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