Pieter ROUX

1961*

Etchings, paintings, drawings

Pieter ROUX in 1990

Brief C.V.

Jacobus Petrus ROUX was born on a farm in the Rustenburg district on 26^th December, 1961; he studied 1983-1985 at the Pretoria Technikon Graphic Fine Arts; 1986-1988 National Higher Diploma, Witwatersrand Technikon

Early 1990s Pieter Roux moved from Johannesburg to the Cape.

Selected Exhibitions at Gallery 21

Gallery 21, Johannesburg – 22^nd April to 3^rd May, 1986 (3-man show with Willi Lottering, Izak de Villiers) (pencil/charcoal/etchings) – (catalogue)

Gallery 21, Johannesburg – 15^th November to 3^rd December, 1988 (3-man show with Walter Meyer, Andrew Breebaart) (etchings) - (invitation card + catalogue)

Click on image to view invitation card – image also used partly for exhibition poster in 1988

Additional Group Shows

Two-man show with Günther Herbst, Ivan Solomon Gallery, Pretoria Technikon - 1985

SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (Participated in The Volkskas Atelier Award 1987 with 3 works) - 18th May, 1987

SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (Exhibition of post-graduate works by students of the Technikon Witwatersrand) – 11^th to 22^nd April, 1988

SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (Participated in The Volkskas Atelier Award 1988 with 2 works) - 16^th May, 1988

R.A.U. Johannesburg (The Sasol Art Collection) – 1^st August to 3^rd September, 1988 (cat. 134)

Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg – “Animals and Fantasies”– works by four post-graduate students of the Witwatersrand Technikon – 22^nd May to 16^th June, 1989 (together with Lynne Bamford, Desirée Pearce, Russel Scott)

 Fig Gallery, Johannesburg (6 artists) – 15^th December, 1989

Gallery on the Market, Johannesburg (3^rd March, 1990) – jointly with Lynne Bamford, Lea Henorain

Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town (included in Group show ”Celebrate the Nude”) - 17^th June, 1991

Cape Town Art Festival ’92, Cape Town – 17^th December, 1992

1991 Cape Town Triennial shown in 8 museums in South Africa 1991-1993, cat. 107

Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town (included in Group show ”All about Eve”) – 19^th July, 1993

University Art Gallery, Stellenbosch (Cape Town Printmakers) – 20^th October – 10^th November, 1999 (jointly with Eunice Geustyn)

Selected Public Collections

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria

Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein (PELMAMA PERMANENT ART COLLECTION)

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Momentum Life Insurance Company, Johannesburg

SASOL, Johannesburg

"Invitation to the Rhino's House", 1987 - etching - 97x74 cm (SASOL Art Collection)

Selected Publications

"Four of Spades" 1998-1999

from “Kaartspel” (“Pack of cards”) Flanders – South Africa, a project realized in 1998-1999 at Frans Masereel Centrum studio’s, Kasterlee/Antwerp in cooperation with Studio-Artist-Printmaker Ltd., Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg and Hard Ground Studio, Cape Town.
From the portfolio created by 55 Flemish and South African artists a real pack of cards was edited. The results were shown at the Museum of Playing Cards in Turnhout, in Johannesburg and Stellenbosch.

“Printmaking in a transforming South Africa” (Hobbs/Rankin) (David Philip), 1997 p.134 – ISBN 0-86486-334-9

Cape Town Triennial 1991 (Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation) – ill. cat. 107 – ISBN 0-620-16054-3

Pretoria Art Museum Bulletin April 1990 Vol 24 No. 2 pp. 3-5 (“The use of symbols in the art of Pieter Roux”), ill. p6

"Symphony of myths" (State 2), 1988 - etching 10/30 (5 plates, ea. plate 29x18.5 cm)

“Style” Magazine – December/January 1990 – “Art Auction of the Decade” – illustrated p.110, cat. 29

Vita Art Now 1989 – Johannesburg Art Gallery – 24^th April to 17^th June, 1990 – 6 etchings ill.

Vita Art Now – Johannesburg Art Gallery – 3^rd May to 18^th June, 1989 - illustrated

The SASOL Art Collection, Johannesburg, 1988 (Schmidt), illustrated p.25

Web references

Artthrob 99 Nov listings - http://www.artthrob.co.za/99oct/images/roux01a.jpg

http://www.pelmama.org/ROUX.htm

http://www.pelmama.org/PDFs/OAM_PELMAMA_cat_July_2007.pdf - nos. 331, 332, 333

http://www.pelmama.org/PDFs/PAM_cat2009_pp36-57.pdf - ill. in colour

Additional Selected Works

"Untitled", 1984 - etching/aquatint - ed. 20/20 - 50x61 cm

"King's Highway", 1985 - etching/aquatint - ed. 1/10 - 50x59.5 cm

"The third person", 1985 - pastel/charcoal - 79x107 cm

"Pane", 1986 - etching 9/10 - 69x84 cm

"Zebra", 1986 - col. etch. 6/10 - 69x78 cm

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