Stand A03

Graham Contemporary is a Johannesburg based gallery which embraces a heady mix of emergent, mid-career and well-established artists. What is immediately apparent is a zest for wonder and joy expressed across genres, be it figurative or abstract painting, photography, sculpture, or installation. The vast scale of the gallery allows for an operatic impact, rendering works immediately engaging. For Graham Contemporary, ultimately, it is the aesthetic caliber that matters, its dopamine fix – ‘bold colour statements that project the highest vibration, frequency and positive energy’. Though it is not colour alone that matters – great attention is also given to monochromatic works.

In keeping with the global revisionist moment, diversification is key, though never at the expense of the quality of the work. Graham Contemporary is a business less invested in story – in particular the pitfalls of ideology – and far more inspired by the suggestive dance of figuration and abstraction. Dogma is avoided, art with a complex impact embraced. When figuration emerges in a given work, it is abstraction that proves the driving force. And given that abstraction is also globally re-emergent, means that Graham Contemporary stands at the frontline of art beyond limiting ideological constraints