Zander Blom
Album 4,
2018
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Found Objects, Grease Pencil, Oil Pastel, Acrylic paint, Cable Ties, USB drives, 34 MP4s
31,5 x 31,5 x 2 cm
Edition of 12*
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Edition Ref. Code: BP–09
Zander Blom’s ‘Album 4’ is the first musical release by Bad Paper. While frenzied guitar riffs, pounding drums, and purposefully garbled vocals have characterized his past compositions, with ‘Album 4', Blom has curated a collection of recordings in which his songs have room to breathe and to grow. Songs like ‘JOU KAK’, ‘WAAR IS DIE ALIENS’, and ‘SLAAP EN SUIP WEIRD KAK VIBE PEACE’ allow a more melodic, meditative energy to shine through without sacrificing his punk, noise rock, or grunge influences . Physically, ‘Album 4’ comes as a limited-edition LP, with Blom’s tracks on a USB drive which has been cable-tied to numerous found, vinyl records. Blom then uses the sleeves, and the LPs themselves, as canvases, rendering their surfaces space for play and further exploration of his visual works.
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Zander Blom was born in 1982 in Pretoria and currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Solo exhibitions include Paintings and Posters (2018) at Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town; Polaris and Ursa Minor (2017) at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Mauritius; New Works (2017; 2015) at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf; and Place and Space at Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, US.
Recent group shows include Assessing Abstraction (2018) at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; A Painting Today (2017) at Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town; Jean-François Prat Prize (2016) at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Gestalt & Becoming (2016) at Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin; Exchange (2016) at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf; Home Truths: Domestic Interiors in South Africa (2016) at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; and Material Matters: New Art from Africa at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Mauritius.
Blom’s work forms part of several public and private collections both locally and internationally. In 2014 he was awarded the third Jean-François Prat Prize for contemporary art in Paris and his work is also included in Phaidon’s recent anthology of contemporary painting titled Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016).
Edition Ref. Code: BP–09
Zander Blom was born in 1982 in Pretoria and currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Solo exhibitions include Paintings and Posters (2018) at Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town; Polaris and Ursa Minor (2017) at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Mauritius; New Works (2017; 2015) at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf; and Place and Space at Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, US. Recent group shows include Assessing Abstraction (2018) at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; A Painting Today (2017) at Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town; Jean-François Prat Prize (2016) at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Gestalt & Becoming (2016) at Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin; Exchange (2016) at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf; Home Truths: Domestic Interiors in South Africa (2016) at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; and Material Matters: New Art from Africa at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Mauritius. Blom’s work forms part of several public and private collections both locally and internationally. In 2014 he was awarded the third Jean-François Prat Prize for contemporary art in Paris and his work is also included in Phaidon’s recent anthology of contemporary painting titled Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016).
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