Albert Adams' exhibition 'An Invincible Spirit', at the Wits Art Museum (WAM) until May 25, celebrates 90 years of the exiled artist’s birth.
Albert Adams — An Invincible Spirit
The work forms part of the artist’s cherished Incarceration series which, given the timing of the exhibition, is pregnant with symbols of South Africa’s social maladies and the country’s thwarted potential.For Martin, a curator of several of Adams’s shows since meeting the artist during his visits to the country, this particular show is of particular visual significance.
“With other retrospectives, such as at the Rupert Museum in 2017 [which was cocurated with Robyn-Leigh Cedras], we have many of the same key works, but this has a more developed schematic outline of different phases. With the Rupert Museum, everything had to go to one big room.” Here, mood, palette, technical and thematic range and variations in scale may hit the viewer like a fusillade, with familiar works and Adams’s variety of influences developing full power from the manner in which the works converse with each other.series and works that feature apes, a theme the artist returned to, albeit decades later.
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