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Old and new masters
Bruce Haines profiles Johannes Phokela’s ongoing partnership with Gasworks in London.
Johannes Phokela and Gasworks is one of the longer standing partnerships to have weathered the vagaries of the art world. For over ten years Gasworks Studios has provided Phokela with a stable, affordable workspace, augmented by an international visiting artists’ programme and, of late, a changing exhibition programme in the galleries below. The building, situated near the Oval cricket ground, now houses thirteen studios and a gallery; ten studios are rented out to London-based artists while three are reserved for the International Residency Programme, where artists are invited to take a studio for a period of up to three months. Throughout his tenure, Phokela has made his mark both in the UK and internationally through his unique takes on Dutch and Flemish ‘Old Masters’, among others, sending up their aesthetics and cultural specificity with breathtaking audacity and great technical facility. Phokela’s beautifully painted versions of iconic images by the likes of Bruegel, Rubens, de Gheyn and Jordaens are worked up deliberately from reproductions and his memory of the original. He changes the gender and colour of key protagonists from their North European...
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