Asha Zero, Asha Zero approaches painting on the same conceptual grounds as collage
Tel, 2015.
About:
Known for deconstructing traditional notions of identity and representation, dominated today by contemporary media, branding, marketing and advertising, Asha Zero’s hyper-realistic paintings speak into the various traditions and languages within the history of Modernism and Postmodernism alike, most importantly Realism, Dada, Constructivism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, New Realism, and Neo-Expressionism.
Untitled, 2015.
From this chimeric space Asha Zero effectively merges the seemingly opposing ideologies and conceptual foundations of Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, confronting the medium of painting with institutionalised norms such as schizophrenia, pastiche, anxiety, erasure and simulacra. Under the guise(s) of imitation, artifice, fragmentation, ambiguity, ubiquity and anonymity, Asha Zero approaches painting on the same conceptual grounds as collage, depicting the everyday spectacle of the human condition through graphic iterations appropriated from the urban landscape and the contemporary media-sphere.
PBX.
Ibbi Micro, 2009.
FNZKTX.
With major exhibitions held locally and abroad, Asha Zero boasts four solo exhibitions amongst a plethora of group exhibitions. Asha Zero’s work has also appeared at important Art Fairs and auctions around the globe, including the Joburg Art Fair and the Cape Town Art Fair. Asha Zero’s work features in major private and corporate collections, notably the Jack Ginsburg collection, the Campbell Smith collection, MAP collection (Harrie Siertsema) and the Sanlam collection.(Smac Gallery, South Africa)