Marvin Luvualu Antonio
STEVENSON GALLERY CAPE TOWN
Until 18 July 2015
Cape Town Redux, 2015.
About:
Capsule, 2015.
Can’t pee in public, 2015.
Studio View.
Drunk in Pink, 2015.
Marvin Luvualu Antonio’s Trash Talks explores relationships between the artist’s studio and the everyday. In constructing this installation, composed from found objects and discarded matter, Antonio seeks to reconcile the complexities of contemporary excess in relation to his own sense of self.
While exploring the city of Cape Town Antonio has collected and appropriated society’s rejected debris, which has then been translated into paintings and assembled into three-dimensional collages to imbue new meaning
Dispossesed.
Antonio was born in St Petersburg, Russia, 1986. He is completing his BFA in Photography at OCAD University, Toronto (2015) where he was awarded the AIMIA Photography Scholarship Prize (2014). His solo exhibition Pink Matter was held at JR Projects in 2014. Group shows include Play-Doh, Warner Gallery, Toronto (2015); AIMIA Photography Scholarship Prize Exhibition, AGO, Toronto (2015); Preview, CK2 Gallery, Montreal (2014); and Mystery Machine, XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto (2013). He has an upcoming publication, Language and the Ocularcentric Nature of Existentialism, and previously contributed to Every Object Has a Story: Extraordinary Canadians Celebrate the Royal Ontario Museum (2014).
Courtesy: Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.