nieuwoudt's Profile

From: South Africa
Joined: November 10, 2007
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist/details.php?id=2089

About nieuwoudt:

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, Love is the Law, Love under Will"

"Every man and every woman is a star. That is to say ,every human being is intrinsically an independent individual with his own proper character and proper motion." Aleister Crowley

BIO :Neil is a self-taught artist.

_June+July 2oo2 : Strydom Gallery (George, SA) Amateur Winter Exhibition.

_Feb 2oo4-July 2oo5 : Salon Artist @ The Peanut Gallery, Cape Town City.

_April 2oo4 : Solo @ Voila Cafe & Bistro, Observatory, Cape Town

_June 2oo4 : Group Exhibition @ Obz Cafe ,Observatory, Cape Town .

_Dec 2oo4 : Solo @ Voila Cafe & Bistro, Observatory , Cape Town.

_May 2005 : Invited to "The Naked Eye" Multi-Media Group Exhibition held privately in Gardens, Cape Town .

_May 2005 : Invited to be interviewed by UCT (University of Cape Town) Radio for the Arts & Culture segment.

_May 2oo6 : The Artist submits works to Saatchi-Gallery.co.uk

_April 2oo6-Present : Salon Artist @ The Gerard Cloete Gallery, 90 Loop Str , Cape Town.

_June 2oo6 : New York based Artist ,Gregory Gallo, does review on one of the Artist's work -"Earth"

_June 2oo6 : Invited to Artremains.com (International Artist Community)

_Oct 2oo6 : Invited to Florence Biennale, Italy. The Artist is currently looking for sponsors.

_18-31 Jan 2oo7 : Solo @ The Gerard Cloete Gallery , 90 Loop Street, Cape Town .

_ May 2007 : Invited to exhibit at Marziart International Gallery in Hamburg,Germany.

_June 2007 : Winter Exhibition (Group) at Strydom Gallery ,George

_6-31 August 2007 : Mentoring Workshop @ Greatmore Studios,Woodstock Cape town .
_23 August 2007 : Interviewed by BushRadio, local radio station in the Cape Town area.
_28 August 2007 : Open Studio @ Greatmore Studios , a group exhibition featuring the various artists currently @ Greatmore Studios.


_23 January -18 February : Solo @ the Winchester Mansions , Sea Point, Cape Town .


_8-10 July 2008: The Artisans Collection, group show held in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa.


THE NEW SPIRIT
"There is absolutely no chance for a word ever to express anything .As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences ,everything goes wrong." Marcel Duchamp ,a biography

"Disputing Plato's theory of ideal forms, Pyrrho denied existence of absolutes.There was no possibility of arriving at an objective truth,he said ,because "nothing is in itself more this than that." Since nothing was either wholly true or false, one should cultivate an attitude of "indifference" and "imperturbability" toward life, according to Pyrrho ,avoiding judgements and opinions but keeping oneself in a state of alertness to each passing moment .Pyrrho's thinking was very close in some ways to the central tenets of Zen Buddhism."
a biography _Marcel Duchamp, written by Calvin Tomkins


"My concern is neither the divine nor the human, neither the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine, and it is not a general one but is unique, as I am unique ... Nothing is more to me than myself."
Max Stirner (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, The Ego and its Own)

'"The dead should not be permitted to be so much stronger than the living" in regards to Traditionalism' from Duchamp, a biography

"Whatever motif the painter represents, be it large or small, complicated or simple, he should do it by concentrating on its essential nature. If something of the essential is lacking ,the Soul is not manifest. He must do his work with his whole soul , if he does not work with his whole soul , the essential will not be clear. He must be severe and respectful in his work , otherwise it will lack depth of thought . He must apply zeal and reverance to complete it, otherwise the picture will not be properly finished. " KUO HSI from "The Tao of Art" by Ben Willis