Ransome Stanley, Born 1953, London, UK. Lives and works in Munich, Germany.
Flamingo, 2015.
About:
Ransome draws on images from bourgeois culture of the nineteenth century, Western images of Africa and colonial clichés of exoticism to raise questions about race and identity. He uses the media in its various forms as an archive, from which he selects and combines imagery. His paintings are often populated with photo-realistic portraits in dialogue with animals, literature or a picture within a picture.
White Shirt, 2015.
Bubbles, 2015.
Glimpses of worn old fences, crumbling walls and cracked wooden boards create the layering of urban graffiti. Ransome’s scrawled writing and half torn posters are far from anonymous and spontaneous. The corrosion and decaying of materials – bleached and peeling paint, rotten wood and rusty nails – is executed artificially with masterful skill. In contemporary German art, comparisons could be drawn to Anselm Kiefer and Neo Rauch in their experimentations with texures, alchemy and memory.
Diptich, 2015.
Buddha, 2015.
Born 1953 in London, Stanley lives and works in Munich, Germany. The artist has shown widely internationally and participated in important exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Christliche Kunst, Munich, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Kunstarkaden, Munich, Stadthalle, Germering, Kunstverein, Aschau, Musée D´Ixelles, Brüssel and the Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt among others. (text Jack Bell Gallery)
Courtesy: MOMO Gallery Cape Town