Wim Legrand
Wim Legrand (b. 1978) offers a playful take on the paradoxical strangeness of everyday reality, while commenting on our postmodern condition as victims to the barrage of information and news feeds. Mundane and forgettable objects usher the familiar into peculiar allegorical narratives, where past blurs with present and fact with fiction – setting scenes in a liminal zone, in the unfettered “now” of a dream, meanings just out of reach and continually open to interpretation. He combines painting with drawing, cartoons and pop culture with aesthetic references to North European history painting and Surrealist traditions – the post-modern world overlaid onto the art historical atmosphere in which he was raised.
To date, Legrand has held solo shows in Belgium and South Africa and has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the globe.
SOLO SHOWS
2020 'The Parafix', 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 'Twilight of the Vanities', 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 'Hunting Pink', 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 'FOOFARAW', 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 'Test Campaign', 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 'Brouhaha', 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
GROUP SHOWS
2019 'RMB Turbine Art Fair' with 99 Loop Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Cape Town Art Fair' with 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 'Cape Town Art Fair' with 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 'Cape Town Art Fair' with 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 'Untitled 3.99', 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 'Untitled 1.99', 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
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