Blue Sunshine, Jupiter

Mark Rautenbach
Medium:
Polyester Sewing Thread, Small Gold Safety Pins, Wood Glue
Dimensions:
130cm x 130cm
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ABOUT MARK RAUTENBACH
Mark Rautenbach is an artist from South Africa currently living and working in Cape Town. He has worked as Mark Splendid and Mark Maria over the years and in a variety of mediums and techniques. Rautenbach often works with material, which is considered waste matter, as well as with thread, paper, development of yarns, knitting, public performances and craft-like studio work. He lectured Design for a number of years at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), and education recurs as a theme in his work, along with identities born out of various narratives or yarns.
Mark Rautenbach’s latest body of work, ‘Underpinnings’ looks at unseen forces and tensions which are inside, beneath, behind and between visible things. Materially this is expressed by securing, stretching and suspending fine, colourful hand-knitted circular fabrics attached by small gold safety pins. These materials have no intrinsic value and as separate actions they go largely unnoticed. However, when combined in such a manner, they give form to something striking, complex, vital, and compelling.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 ‘Underpinnings’, EBONY/CURATED, Bordeaux House, Franschhoek, South Africa
2014 ‘The Educators New Clothes’, Room, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 ‘Womb’, I Cafe, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
Group Exhibitions
2019 ‘A Splendid Summer Send-Off’, 40 years 40 plus artists, Irma Stern Museum, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2019 ‘Textile’, Curated By Amy Pike For Dyman Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2019 ‘Conversations In Texture’, Curated By Khumo Sebambo For Berman Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
2019 ‘Small Room’, Curated By Sarah Grace For Priest, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018 ‘Forward?Forward!Forward…’, Performance And Sculptures, University Of Stellenbosch Museum, Stellenbosch , South Africa
2018 ‘Touchwood’, 203 Percy Osborn, Durban, South Africa
2018 Artistic Activism Grant; Centre For Artistic Activism, Sweat And Asijiki, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018 KZNSA Gallery, Park Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2018 Candice Berman, Johannesburg, South Africa
2017-18 A Romulus Rebus, Curated By Priest, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, South Africa
2017 Johannesburg Art Fair; South African Mint, Johannesburg, South Africa
2017 EBONY/CURATED, Franschoek, South Africa
2017 ‘Dream Rift’, Eclectica Design And Art, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 ‘Proud’, The Studio Door, San Diego, USA
2017 ‘Verging Thresholds’, Eclectica Design And Art, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 ‘Mothertongue 2’, Romulus Rebus, Priest, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 ‘Woman’s Work’, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2016 ‘What’s The Matter?’, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 District Six Museum Print Exchange: District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ‘Muse Montage’, Eclectica Design And Art, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ‘Eduplation’, Performance and Group Exhibition, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 ‘Optical Diversion’, Eclectica Design And Art, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ‘Fetish’, Performance And Group Exhibition; Priest, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 ‘Unheimlich’, Performance And Group Exhibition Show, Woordfees 2016, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
2015 ‘Fetish’, Arttec – Epsac Community Art Centre, Port Elizabeth And Grahamstown, South Africa
2015 ‘Décor Z’, Spier, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2012 Southern Ink Exposure 3, (International Tattoo Convention), Cape Town, South Africa
2011 ‘Open Books’, Brundyn & Gonsalves, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 ‘Pinhole Photography’, Haas, Bokaap, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 ‘Southern Ink Exposure 2, (International Tattoo Convention),CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 Gill Alderman Gallery, Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 ‘These Four Walls’, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 Southern Ink Exposure 1, (International Tattoo Convention), Co-Curator and Exhibitor, CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 Gill Alderman Gallery, Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa
2008 Gill Alderman Gallery, Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 ‘World Tribe’, Collaboration With Brandon Amronski, Alison Café, Leon, Mexico
2007 Gill Alderman Gallery, Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Walkerbay Gallery, Hermanus, South Africa
2006 ‘Introducing Splendid’, Amoeba Light & Living, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002 ‘Mark Mrs Love’, Collaboration With Mrs Love, Obs Cafe, Cape Town, South Africa
2000 Sex & Culture; Group Exhibition, Gauloise Warehouse, Cape Town, South Africa
Performances
2018 ‘How Long Can I Hold Your Attention For?/ How Much Presence Can I Give You?’, Jewellery As A Social Object,The Contemporary Jewellery Forum, Seminar And Exhibition, University Of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018 ‘Noonoo Index And Performance; Maker, FNBJoburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2017 ‘Dawning New Narratives’, Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 ‘Ouma Se Kind’, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 ‘Mothertongue 2’, Romulus Rebus, Priest, Johannesburg
2017 ‘Mothertongue 1’, Performance In – Art Thursdays, Reverie Social Table, Observatory, Cape Town
2017 ‘Fatherland’, Performance In Live Art Festival Borderlands, Cape Point, Cape Town
2016 ‘Eduplation’, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, Cape Town
2016 ‘Fetish’, Performance And Group Exhibition, Priest, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 ‘Unheimlich’, Performance And Group Exhibition Show, Woordfees 2016, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
2015 (Terror)Tory, The Dark Precursor: International Conference On Deleuze And Artistic Research 2015, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium, South Africa
2015 (Terror)Tory, Tedx 2015, City Hall, Cape Town , South Africa
2015 (Terror)Tory, Collaborative Performance, Deleuze And Guattari And Africa Conference, University Of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 – 2014 The Educators New Clothes; Performance, Cape Town & Surrounds, Johannesburg, South Africa
Installations
2017 ‘The Sky Over Berlin’, 50th Anniversary Of The Krugerrand, South African Mint And Rand Refinery, World Money Fair, Berlin, Germany
Awards
2017 Most Beautiful Object; Nominee, Design Indaba, Cape Town
2015 Mind, Spirit, Emotion; 4th Prize, Online Competition, Art Competition.Net, Http://Art-Competition.Net/
2015 Vuleka Competition, 3rd And Highly Commended Prize, Art B, Belleville
2015 Uima Mask Competition, Finalist, University Of Iowa Museum Of Art, Iowa, Usa
2003 Human Genome Project; Competition Finalist, Natural History Museum, Cape Town
Collections
Iziko South African National Gallery
Rand Refinery Collection
Publications
2018 Noonoo Index Catalogue; Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, ISBN 978-0-620-79668-2
2017 Contemporary Performance Almanac 2017 (Volume 4), Edited by Caden Manson and Daniel Nelson, ISBN-13: 978-1546818854
2015 THE DARK PRECURSOR, International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research, edited by PAULO DE ASSIS and PAOLO GIUDICI, ISBN 978 94 9038 904 8
2014 KNOTWE: ALL THINGS FIBER, http://www.knotwe.com/mark-rautenbach/
2014 ART SOUTH AFRICA, Volume 12, Issue 4, June 2014
2014 VISI, February/March 2014, Volume 70