“Radiating fulfillment”, 2021, acrylic on paper, 6 500€
Born in 1973, in Johannesburg, Lyndi Sales has become in the last twenty years, one of South Africa’s most prominent artist. She represented her country at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and this is her fourth exhibition at Galerie Maria Lund, “On being” (until June 19). From her studio in Cape Town, she is searching for an elsewhere and is searching for a reunion. An escape to better connect to the world, to others, to herself. A love quest in the platonic sense, where love means a progression towards the knowledge of beauty and in fine the access to the indivisible.
Lyndi Sales in her studio in Cape Town
Her work process is meditative: she repeats gestures in a carefully crafted sound universe to provoke specific emotions (sadness, euphoria, melancholia, ecstasy) in order to enter a state of maximum receptivity… A dream of Utopia in response to a void, the feeling of being separated from others, even though beings are the universe and breathe together. The artist aspires to overcome contradictory emotions that characterize human life, by opening herself to an interior, contemplative world leading to other levels of consciousness. By doing so, she reaches new visions and distances herself from a sometimes hurtful societal reality.
Meteoric rainbow uses traditional South African sticks with cotton threads, 2020
She likes to observe nature and to use old maps and works in a sound environment. There will be a baroque contemporary concert at the gallery on June 4 th. Her technique of cutting out small strips of paper and putting them together in a ballet of colors is very attractive and the light corner gallery on rue de Turenne is a perfect space for this luminous work.
Detour, love is simply the name for desire and pursuit of the whole, 2021
I was in the gallery when some of the pieces were unwrapped and the emotion was real when the staff discovered with Maria Lund the new pieces of the artist like this embroidered piece on love, or the traditional ceremonial sticks which she has wrapped with cotton thread. All these works have survived through the long trip from South Africa in our difficult times!
“Hit me like a ray of sun”, 2020, drawing with aero graph, sells for 1 300€
I love discovering new artists from faraway countries and Lyndi Sales, whom Maria Lund met in a fair, is a wonderful find. The poetry of her large patchworks of papers and the way she makes them dance is totally pleasing but also the lightness of her drawings with an aero graph, whether in black and white or in multiples colors, is fun. Prices range from 1 300€ to 6 900€ for the larger framed paper cuttings.
The exhibition is on until June 19. Galerie Maria Lund, 48 rue de Turenne near Place des Vosges.
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2 Comments on “At Galerie Maria Lund, Lyndi Sales lands from South Africa”
Bravo Laure une fois de plus tu déniches une pépite ! Merci merci
Très belle découverte, j’aime beaucoup.
Merci Laure…