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 Exhibitions + publications
06.2009
SCUSE US WHILE WE KISS DA SKY (AS IN WE’VE HIT THE CEILING) - a solo exhibition by AVANT CAR GUARD at Brodie/Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg.
04.2009
Joburg Art Fair 09 - Selected works and performance (Booth 09 Whatiftheworld / Gallery), Johannesburg.
03.2009
Volume III - a solo exhibition and publication launch by AVANT CAR GUARD at Whatiftheworld/Gallery, Cape Town.
01.2009
“why not…” - Group exhibition at Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin - Germany.
03.2008
ACG All Up in Yo Bizniz - Featuring a specially commissioned performance, new works, and Volume II publication launch at WHATIFTHEWORLD / GALLERY Booth No. 9 at Joburg Art Fair - Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg 13 - 16 March 2008
12.2007
The Void Romance - a solo exhibition by AVANT CAR GUARD at Whatiftheworld/Gallery, Cape Town.
www.whatiftheworld.com
08.2007
AVANT CAR GUARD included in the group exhibition 3C (Committee and Critics Choice) at the Association for Visual Arts in Cape Town.
www.ava.co.za
08.2007
Naked frontier ambition vibes - a solo exhibition by AVANT CAR GUARD at whatiftheworld/project room, Cape Town.
www.whatiftheworld.com
06.2007
Volume II - a solo exhibition by AVANT CAR GUARD at The Pure Project, in New York City.
www.thepureproject.com
03.2007
The launch of AVANT CAR GUARD - Volume I at David Krut Projects, in Johannesburg.
www.davidkrut.com
03.2007
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.
www.smacgallery.co.za
02.2007
Having secured both operational support and project funding from the World Art World and Corporate Entities, AVANT CAR GUARD publish a call for submissions to the Africa Biennale 2008.
12.2006
Skakel Oor na die Donkerkant was the title given to the launch of AVANT CAR GUARD - Volume I at Bell-Roberts Contemporary, in Cape Town.
www.bell-roberts.com
11.2006
AVANT CAR GUARD publish Volume I - a 22-page hand finished, individually numbered publication packaged in a hand finished cardboard sleave.
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.
