Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Bedroom 1, Corner 3, 7.00 pm., Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Zander Blom
Artwork 2007
Photograph of Zander Blom’s ink and cotton work ‘Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Bedroom 1, Corner 3, 7.00 pm., Tuesday, 7 August 2007’ mounted in the corner of a ceiling.
Artwork: Zander Blom, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Bedroom 1, Corner 3, 7.00 pm., Tuesday, 7 August 2007 (2007). Ultrachrome ink on Photo Rag. 56 x 81 cm. Courtesy of Stevenson.
Artist Zander Blom Title Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Bedroom 1, Corner 3, 7.00 pm., Tuesday, 7 August 2007 Date 2007 Materials Ultrachrome ink on Photo Rag Dimensions 56 x 81 cm Credit Courtesy of Stevenson

"I initially used the medium of photography to record subjects for drawings, prints and paintings. Later, I photographed the drawings and paintings to keep track of what I was making," Zander Blom writes in the introduction to his first catalogue raisonné, The Drain of Progress (2007), included in the exhibition Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook! at A4. The catalogue offers an overview of the artist's propositional practice of the time, which explored the after-image of European Modernism in installations composed of paper, tape and household objects. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon extends a punk, DIY imagining of Picasso's masterpiece, the precarious composition photographed against a domestic (and somewhat derelict) setting.

b.1982, Pretoria; works in Cape Town.

Installation photograph from the Photo Book! Photo-Book! Photobook! exhibition in A4’s Gallery in an area dedicated to photo-books from the years 1994 to 2022. On the left, Zander Blom’s photograph ‘Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Bedroom 1, Corner 3, 7.00 pm., Tuesday, 7 August 2007’. In the middle, Roger Ballen’s photograph ‘Bedroom of Railway Worker, De Aar’. On the right, Robin Rhode’s series of photographic prints ‘Catch Air’.
Installation photograph from the Photo Book! Photo-Book! Photobook! exhibition in A4’s Gallery in an area dedicated to photobooks from the years 1994 to 2022. On the left, Zanele Muholi’s photographs ‘Hlanzeka III, Vineyard Hotel, Room 153, Cape Town, 2017’ and ‘Bangizwenkosi, The Sails, Durban’ are mounted above a wooden display shelf. On the right, Zander Blom’s photograph ‘Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Bedroom 1, Corner 3, 7.00 pm., Tuesday, 7 August 2007’ is mounted above a wooden display shelf.
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