Avant Car Guard
AVANT CAR GUARD is a Johannesburg-based, three-member visual art collective, exhibiting and authoring as a singular artist. They are Zander Blom, Jan-Henri Booyens and Michael MacGarry, all individual artists in their own right. They have produced three publications on their work, titled Volume I, Volume II and Volume III respectively. They have exhibited at a national and international level for several years, with their production based on a conceptual, self-reflexive and satirical approach to the art world - its markets and practitioners as well as the process of creating itself. Their work is manifest across multidisciplinary means, through photography, sculpture, performance, multiples, installation and painting.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
SCUSE US WHILE WE KISS DA SKY (AS IN WE’VE HIT THE CEILING), at Brodie/Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg.
Selected works and performance, Booth No. 9: Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.
Volume III, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town.
2008
ACG All Up in Yo Bizniz, Booth No. 9: Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg
2007
The Void Romance, Whatiftheworld / Gallery, Cape Town
Naked frontier ambition vibes, Whatiftheworld / project room, Cape Town
Volume II, The Pure Project, in New York City.
Volume I Launch, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
“why not…”, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
2007
3C (Committee and Critics Choice), Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
Publications
AVANT CAR GUARD, Volume I - a 22-page hand finished, individually numbered publication packaged in a hand finished cardboard sleeve.
Designed, edited and published: AVANT CAR GUARD
Edition: 500.5
ISBN: 978-0-6280-37358-4
Dimensions: Book (290 x 290 mm) / Sleave (295 x 300 mm)
To order a copy send a request to: info@avantcarguard.com
10.2005
AVANT CAR GUARD evicted from Dirt Contemporary, in Cape Town, ahead of the scheduled opening of their solo exhibition - titled AVANT CAR GUARD.
A selection of work from AVANT CAR GUARD - Volume II included in the publication: One Million and Forty-Four Years (And Sixty-Three Days), edited by Kathryn Smith and published by SMAC Gallery, in Stellenbosch.
