Jacobus Kloppers: Watergang - SOLD
Jacobus Kloppers
Watergang - 2009
Oil on canvas
90 x 150 cm
Signed bottom left
Dated and numbered on back of stretcher frame
Sold - 2009
Born Jacobus Joubert Krige Kloppers, 13 June 1959, Nelspruit, Mpumalanga
Jacobus Kloppers:
I am concerned with more than the representation of a piece of natural phenomena. My work is not just about the picturesque rendering of the landscape, but about how elements in the landscape may act as metaphors for the human experience of, and interaction with, a place or territory.
Kloppers’ meticulously painted canvases are deceptively beautiful. Underneath the glistening surface of carefully modeled oil paint, and behind the mesmerizing mood of the scene, lies its true attraction and meaning. As with good poetry, the metaphorical content only reveals itself when we take the time and make the effort to delve deeper.
Kloppers has journeyed from his original theme of habitation, through the state of in-between-ness describing the non-place, to the drifting clouds marking our passage through this life, to his present theme of the aquamarine ocean with its ominous currents, salty surface-lines and blue depths.
Whether interpreting the clouds in the sky above or the salty sea water of the ocean as Kloppers’ metaphors, we are reminded of our drifting existence through space and time. The human spirit may not be without will, but, like clouds and water, we have no control over our origin, and relatively little control over how and where we end up. It is the winds of time and currents of change that ultimately determine our route and final destination. We can be little more than observers en route, hoping to discover ourselves through this journey.
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