THREE ROOMS
Baba Tjeko, Rosie Mudge and Xanthe Scout
PREVIEW
Opening 10. 05. 25
SMAC Gallery is pleased to present the preview of Three Rooms - artist presentations by Baba Tjeko, Rosie Mudge, and Xanthe Scout.
THREE ROOMS
BABA TJEKO
ROSIE MUDGE
XANTHE SCOUT
SMAC CAPE TOWN
10. 05. 25
ARTWORKS
Tjeko presents a series of collage-style works, incorporating his interpretation of the Ditema style, while also bringing together other images as he creates vast, detailed, and bold paintings. Inspired by images, both vintage and modern, Tjeko seeks to create a dialogue between the old and contemporary in his new series of work, highlighting this contrast with black and white photos and vivid, colourful digital-age images. While recreating Ditema for a contemporary world, it is fitting that Tjeko finds himself caught between, and trying to reconcile, the past and the present.
“…the works in SMAC Gallery attend to intimacies and care in the artist’s life as a mother. The desire to look to her child without the projections of her own ego speaks to the quiet sacrifice of self that is implicant in becoming a parent. The artist’s recent focus on mirror neurons and emotional homemaking is evident in these canvases that evoke abstracted versions of the family unit in their physical placement within the gallery space. Individual and unique pieces hang clustered together to create a composite work, or lean and hide behind each other in evocation of familial bodily bondedness.”
-Natasha Norman
This exhibition runs concurrently with Mudge's current participation in the 'Motherhood: Duality and Paradox' exhibition at ISIKO SANG, curated by Andrea Lewis.
Rosie Mudge
Two Reflections Into One
2025
Automotive Paint and Glitter Glue on Canvas
168 x 65 x 10 cm
Unique
ZAR 55 000.00
(Selling Price Excludes VAT)
Rosie Mudge
Maybe Together We Can Get Somewhere
2025
Automotive Paint and Glitter Glue on Canvas
110 x 60 x 11 cm
Unique
ZAR 50 000.00
(Selling Price Excludes VAT)
Rosie Mudge
All She Has Given, All I Have Taken, All is Forgiven, All is Forsaken, I
2025
Automotive Paint and Glitter Glue on Canvas
72 x 62 x 4 cm
Unique
ZAR 32 000.00
(Selling Price Excludes VAT)
Rosie Mudge
All She Has Given, All I Have Taken, All is Forgiven, All is Forsaken, II
2025
Automotive Paint and Glitter Glue on Canvas
72 x 62 x 4 cm
Unique
ZAR 32 000.00
(Selling Price Excludes VAT)
Xanthe Scout's exhibition of new paintings, resin works and sculpture all slip away from answering the question. Scout's work is, in her own words, ‘primarily concerned with accidents and precarity’; things that break in mid air, splinter in your hands - a joke with a mumbled punchline, a crucial misunderstanding. Though the paintings in this exhibition take the same starting point and follow roughly the same route, they arrive at vastly different conclusions - take wrong turns, miss some critical piece of information, double back on themselves.
-Margot Dower
Xanthe Scout
Tree Lantern
2025
Ink, Liquid Pigment and Rice Paper in Epoxy Resin
28.5 x 29.5 x 3.5 cm
Unique
ZAR 10 500.00
(Selling Price Excludes VAT)
Xanthe Scout
Autumn Fire Tree
2025
Ink, Liquid Pigment and Rice Paper in Epoxy Resin
30.5 x 27 x 3.5 cm
Unique
ZAR 10 500.00
(Selling Price Excludes VAT)