Hadley, 2024
Drypoint etching with chine-collé
290gsm 100% cotton rag Tiepolo paper and Japanese washi
290gsm 100% cotton rag Tiepolo paper and Japanese washi
96 x 65 cm
Edition of 6
Framed
R 10,000.00
Callan Grecia (b. 1991) was born in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal. He completed both his BFA (2014) and MFA (2017) in Painting at the Rhodes University. He currently lives and works in George, South Africa and has had numerous exhibitions locally and internationally.
Through painting, Grecia’s frenetic and constantly shifting output pushes on the boundaries of the medium, humorously poking the art worlds dead horse. Growing up in a post-apartheid South Africa, just short of being ‘born free’, Grecia’s obsessive making mirror’s the act of self discovery as a young South African thrown head first into the rainbow nation experiment, just prescient of everything prior. Sampling Y2K internet aesthetics, early-2000s television, pop culture and consumer capitalist culture, Grecia’s compositions reflect an “ultra-nostalgia” for the recent past; a conflation of millennials’ wildest dreams and ultimate discontents.
Through painting, Grecia’s frenetic and constantly shifting output pushes on the boundaries of the medium, humorously poking the art worlds dead horse. Growing up in a post-apartheid South Africa, just short of being ‘born free’, Grecia’s obsessive making mirror’s the act of self discovery as a young South African thrown head first into the rainbow nation experiment, just prescient of everything prior. Sampling Y2K internet aesthetics, early-2000s television, pop culture and consumer capitalist culture, Grecia’s compositions reflect an “ultra-nostalgia” for the recent past; a conflation of millennials’ wildest dreams and ultimate discontents.