Nico Krijno
Lockdown Collage #213, 2022

Print size: 32 x 22 cm including white border

"My latest collection of work, Lockdown Collages, was made at a farmhouse just outside Cape Town. With my wife and daughters away with family, I worked in acute seclusion for much of the pandemic. Though many of us have felt an uneasiness as we adjust to increasingly distanced lives, I see that sense of space as a critical foundation to my work.

These colourful works see hundreds of encyclopaedic images – from ikebana arrangements and marble faces to kitsch household items and ornate furniture  – sliced and stacked into fantastical totem poles. Individually, each is a layered study of pattern, colour, form and texture.”

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