Home
Artists
Artists Books
Price List
New Editions
Print Studio
Contact us
Outreach projects
Accomodation
News and Info
Print Archive
Investing in Prints
Monoprint Class
Green Living
 

Johann Louw

johann louw, johann louw prints, johann louw south african artist, african lithographs



Johann Louw is an introverted artist based in Cape Town. Johann Louw prefers not to speak, but to rather observe and communicate with the world using his images as an intermediary. Johann Louw does most of his work in oils on canvas and the prints that he made at The Artists' Press mirror the conceptual concerns of his paintings. Anonymous male figures occupy anonymous institutional like spaces, the figures are static and tense and become abstract in relationship to the negative space around them. In some of the images the presence of a second figure is suggested by the use of shadow. Who does this shadow belong to? Is it yours, the viewer, or that of the artists? Or of some unknown person who can only inhabit your imagination. The suggestion is powerful.

The colours and tones that he uses are muted and restricted in range, adding to sense of psychological tension that he so masterfully creates.

Hands are excluded from the frame of the image and the faces look past one or away from the viewer. The poses are intimate and at the same time reject sympathy, bringing into question relationships of power and control. Intrigue and menace are suggested. By leaving the work untitled the viewer is left to respond directly to the figures and the work on an emotional level without a conscious interpretation of the work.

Johann Louw worked intensely on these images, often preferring the empty quite of the studio space at night. His working and re-working of the surfaces and careful selection of colour and control of line have resulted in prints that are very "painterly" and deceptively simple in their style and execution.

Johann Louw was born in 1965. He completed his Fine Art Degree at the University of Stellenbosch and has won a number of awards during his studies :The Rolfes Student Art, Merit Award, Durban, and The Volkskas Atelier, Merit Award in Pretoria. He was awarded a HSRC Bursary for postgraduate study and in 1992 received his Masters Degree in Fine Arts, cum laude. Between 1992 and 1997 was a part time lecturer in painting at The University of Stellenbosch and at The Foundation School of Art in Cape Town. He has exhibited extensively in group shows and at one-man shows throughout South Africa and in Germany, Australia and the USA

In 2010 Johann Louw was one of six South African artists invited to work at the prestigeous Atelier Pons in Paris, France.

COLLECTIONS - National and Corporate
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Gauteng, Durban Tatham Gallery, Durban, Sasol Art Collection, Stellenbosch, Pepkor, Nasionale Pers, Cape Town, De Kock & Kerkhoff, Barclays plc, Sanlam, Old Mutual, London, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, ABSA Bank Ltd, Cazenove, SA, J P Morgan Ltd Bochum Kunsthalle, Germany, University of Cape Town Collection, Johann C Porer Collection on loan to UCT, Oppenheimer Library.

New Editions

Other artists represented by ArtPrintSA

Lithographs 2006

johann louw ,african prints,south african prints,contemporary african prints
Title: Large Lying Figure
Medium: two colour lithograph
Size: 56 x 76cm
Edition size: 15
Price: R 2 450

johannlouw,south african art,south african prints,african prints,lithographs
Title: Large Standing Figure
Medium: two colour lithograph
Size: 56 x 76cm
Edition size: 15
Price: R 2 450

johann louw,johann louw art, south african artists, south african art, south african prints
Title: Lying Head I
Medium: two colour lithograph
Size: 48 x 38cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 1 600

johann louw, johann louw art, south african artists, south african contemporary art, south african prints, lithographs, limited edition prints
Title: Lying Head II
Medium:two colour lithograph
Size: 48 x 38cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 1 600

Johann louw, south african art, lithographs,limited edition prints,investment art
Title: Lying Head III
Medium: two colour lithograph
Size: 48 x 38cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 1 600

johann louw, south african prints, african prints,south african lithographs,south african artists
Title: Lying Head IV
Medium: two colour lithograph
Size: 48 x 38cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 1 600

johann louw, johann louw prints, african lithographs, contemporary south african art, african printmakers
Title: Large Head from Back
Medium: two colour lithograph
Size: 42 x 31cm
Edition size: 10
Price: R 2 050

News from the studio where Johann Louw worked

footer for Johann Louw page