Object Details
- Clive van den Berg, born 1956, Zambia
- Series
- 3/60
- Label Text
- Since its solo founding in 1997 by South African artist Sue Williamson, ArtThrob has expanded in size and has served as an important online resource on contemporary visual arts, with a particular focus on exhibitions and publications that document the involvement of South African artists in the international art world. Listed multiple times as a finalist for South Africa’s Arts & Cultures Trust Awards, ArtThrob also secured a nomination by the United Nations as best cultural website (1999). The site itself was featured as an “art piece” in the 2000 exhibition “Woven Maze” organized for the University of Hanover by curator Pat Binder (ArtThrob website, http://www.artthrob.co.za). ArtThrob produces limited edition works on paper that are sold as individual works or art in an edition of 60 or are organized as special collector portfolios in an edition of 10.
- ArtThrob special edition portfolios present high-quality works on paper by some of South Africa’s most exciting artists--both well-established and emerging. Artists are supportive of ArtThrob’s efforts to promote South African contemporary art.
- Clive van den Berg describes this print, "Cyber Erotics," as follows: “I have been making work about love for some years. These started with a series titled “Memorials Without Facts” which looked at forbidden love between men. These works sometimes used actual archival records as their source or stories invented to fill in archival gaps. This work is more light hearted in tone, at least to begin with. Its subject is the curious remote eroticism facilitated by the internet. Men sit at computers unconnected to each other responding to images generated in cyberspace. This new technology of ‘love’ is an ongoing interest and forms the subject of several of my works.”
- "Cyber Erotics" exemplifies van den Berg’s trademark style in which space is flattened, distended or outright ignored. Van den Berg works with an assured hand as he draws lyrical male figures connected by spartanly colored lines that economically convey a range of complex issues relating to sexual orientation, land rites and memory.
- Description
- A two color lithograph of a muscular man in shorts, standing in a black circle. He is outlined, black on white, yet surrounded by squiggling red lines, each of which is attached to a staring eye in the interior end and the silhouette of men at their computers at the other. This lithograph was printed at Michaelis School of Fine Art by Andrea Steer and Stephen Inggs.
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- Credit Line
- 200
- 2009
- Object number
- 2011-7-2.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- (c)2009 Clive van den Berg
- Type
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 66.5 x 50.4 cm (26 3/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
- Geography
- South Africa
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- National Museum of African Art Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_2011-7-2.5
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys7455e8ce6-71a4-47c4-ba00-c4f7800f8fec
