Morné Visagie

About
Morné Visagie (born 1989) is a South African artist, printmaker, and curator who lives and works in Cape Town. Having graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2011, in 2018 he continued into his Masters. Visagie spent three years training as a printmaker at Warren Editions. He is currently also the curator of a committee-based project gallery, Open 24 HRS. Visagie has had six solo exhibitions, and his work has been included in several group shows. His most recent solo exhibition, Die Bloue Wis, was shown at Nuweland Gallery, in The Netherlands in 2019.
Growing up on Robben Island, the Atlantic Ocean that separated Visagie from the mainland became a recurring metaphor in his imagination, and for the past six years, the colour blue has been the primary medium in his work; a personal symbol of death, loss, nostalgia, memory, religion, sexuality, exile and distance.
These earlier works have been an attempt at defining colour and to gain an understanding of what goes into its creation. Visagie’s more recent work forms part of an evolution towards a preoccupation with using colour as a tool to investigate shape, line and form
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 | The Last Colour to Fade, WHATIFTHEWORLD / KRONE, Twee Jonge Gezellen, Tulbagh |
Die Bloue Wis, Nuweland Gallery, Nederland | |
2018 | FOVNTAIN, SMITH, Cape Town |
2016 | There are Gold Flecks in the Lapis - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town |
2015 | The Line of Beauty - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town |
2014 | Derek Jarman, 1994, Brundyn + Gosalves Gallery, Cape Town |
2013 | Far From The Sea, Perhaps…Morne Visagie & Mbongeni Dlamini - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 | Re-imagined Realities, Open 24 Hrs, Cape Town |
The String installation, Open 24 Hrs, Cape Town | |
2016 | A New Wave, Southern Guild, Cape Town |
2015 | Concerted Efforts, West Space, Melbourne, Austrlalia. |
Rhinos Are Coming, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town | |
2013 | Positive Tension - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town |
2012 | Context, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town |
Outside the Lines: An Exploration of Abstract Materiality, WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town | |
2011 | Tryst, Graduate Exhibition, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town |
2010 | Time On Our Hands, Clock Tower Centre, Cape Town |