Brett Charles Seiler

Brett Charles Seiler lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, where he also graduated from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2015. Seiler’s work has elements of painting, installation, and object art, with a strong emphasis on the use of text and language. Sometimes poetic, nostalgic, or romantic, it is an integral part of his art or stands on its own as a piece as well. In his paintings, the space is indeterminate, the figures are not located and sketchily fleeting, the writing elements seem spontaneous like statements from street art. The colour scheme moves in a narrow spectrum between black, grey, white and brown tones, often using wood. His themes are sexual interaction, oppression, homosexuality, gender, men. Originally from Zimbabwe, a state where human rights violations are commonplace, his work also makes a mark in the struggle for equal sexual orientation in education, media, and institutions.

\"[My work] is a deep longing for understanding. It is from the point of view of something that I’ve missed, something that I cannot go back to. It’s a process of research.\"

Text in English and German.

AUTHOR:
Charles Brett Seiler was born in 1994 in Zimbabwe. He lives and works in Cape Town. After graduating from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2015, he participated in various group exhibitions in galleries in Cape Town, New York, London and most recently at Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin. In his hometown Cape Town there have been three solo exhibitions of his so far.

SELLING POINTS:
• A special, high quality art book on provocative young art that stands out and polarises
• Versatile, poetic and touching

100 colour illustrations

ISBN: 9783961714551
Author: SEILER, BRETT CHARLES
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 01/04/2023
RRP: $99.00
Pages: 166
Dimension: 300mm X 235mm
Imprint: teNeues