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CORNÈ THERON
The digital artworks of Cornè Theron
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Die digitalen Kunstwerke von Cornè Theron
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Cornè Theron was born in Worcester and control,” explains Cornè. “I series of digital works that follow
in the Western Cape in 1974. She experiment with different types of the artistic style of her pixelated
matriculated in Bloemfontein glass as filters to create my images. I paintings.
and went on to study law at the enjoy exploring the fact that our eyes In the meantime, her digital artworks
University of the Orange Free State, are not developed to see underwater, are an established 2nd line of her
graduating in 1997 with an LLB, so the images are blurred. I use water work and the Swimmer Girls are
after which she married and moved as a metaphor for our subconscious hugely popular.
to Swellendam. She lived on a wine and I am very attracted by exploring
farm in the Breedekloof where she the ‘Blue Space’. A neuropsychiatrist 2023 Cornè Theron held her 2nd
had her studio as the art filled her friend of mine calls the subconscious international solo exhibition called
life. In 2019 the the artist moved our stored memory. AQUA at the Hallenbad Ost in the
together with her family to France to Documenta City Kassel (Germany).
gain international experience and to Most of our reactions stem from our This multimedia exhibition in the
grow her art career on a far bigger ‘programming’. I am fascinated by former indoor swimming pool was
international level. the way we mostly react towards each celebrated by visitors and media alike.
other without first logically thinking
After school Theron practised as about it and reasoning about it. The
a conveyancer for two years but sources of our influence and the
resigned to explore other areas of way it impacts us, in terms of our
self-expression. She started taking art individuality and the way we relate to
classes and subsequently participated each other, motivate my work” the The portfolio of
in two group exhibitions and hosted artist adds.
several private exhibitions. She was Cornè Theron starts on
chosen as one of 10 artists for the Cornè Theron is an established artist page 101
Fresh Talent exhibition held by the who has gained lots of positive
Crouse Art Gallery. comments and her art is respected
Theron describes herself as a and bought by collectors worldwide.
contemporary neo-optical artist. In 2020 Theron hosted her first
In her abstract figures, she often international solo exhibition titled
portrays images of women who find AMA and within one week the body
themselves underwater. “I examine of works was sold out.
our reactions to environments that At an exhibition in Hamburg 2021
are foreign to our natural abilities Theron successfully launched a
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