{"id":1188,"date":"2006-05-18T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/humor-and-materials\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T15:57:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T13:57:20","slug":"humor-and-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/humor-and-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor and Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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gordon froud, south african artist and gallerist, in his studio
Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
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(Forgive the quality of this image – I broke my crap camera and will from now on be taking gallery pix on my even more crap phone…)<\/small><\/p>\n

Spent much of Monday with Gordon Froud and Franci Cronje, both of whom will be writing pieces about my current show at Outlet gallery in Pretoria (Franci for Beeld<\/a>, Gordon will see where he wants to publish after he writes it). After spending some time talking about my work with them, I head over to Gordon (the gallerist at Gordart<\/a>)’s studio for the first time – it’s awesome. He’s got a collection of art, CDs, records and books that may just rival Warren Siebrits’, but Gordon mostly uses them to produce his own odd juxtapositional art. i think the most interesting thing in Gordon’s studio must be his collection of large pots and pans – the sourced \/ found objects he’ll be using to produce a huge 3D mobile for a recent CSIR (Science and Technology) commission. (Shown right, just half of one leg of this many-metered monstrosity.)<\/p>\n

It was actually the first time I took a close look at Froud’s body of work (he took me through the books), and I have to say I’m a little humbled and awestruck by the scale, amount, and committment of\/to his seriously\/funny history.<\/p>\n

Froud – where can we see more \/ online? The things you do with cups….
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