Limited Edition – Blue Michael Taylor The Moguls

Michael Taylor (b.1979) is a South African visual artist who lives and works in Cape Town. His work mimics the immediate and expansive nature of the drawing process in order to develop scenes and characters in his painted work. Removed from its purely observational qualities, drawing becomes a projection of the artist’s intuition, imagination and memory. Representational and figurative elements in Taylor’s paintings create narrative frameworks that are unravelled to varying degrees through abstract marking. These baggy storylines are then fastened to titles that suggest postures, mannerisms and social codes. The titles spark moments of recognition in chronicles of masculinity, camp theatricality, personal and cultural mythology, and humanity in all its pomp and ineptitude. In 2013, Taylor was shortlisted in 100 Young Painters of Tomorrow by Thames & Hudson. Taylor has had numerous solo exhibitions in South Africa and Australia.

In this work Taylor explores immediate and expansive nature of the drawing process in order to develop scenes and characters that typifies his painted work. Removed from its purely observational qualities, the drawing becomes a projection of the artist’s intuition, imagination and memory. Representational and figurative elements create a narrative framework that unravels to varying degrees through abstract marking. The title sparks moments of masculinity, camp theatricality, personal and cultural mythology embedded in the work.

Michael Taylor, ‘The Moguls’, 2016, hand-pulled screen print on BFK Rives 250gsm, 56x76cm, Edition of 50 plus 2 APs.

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This work is couriered rolled in a protective tube or flat on a protective backing board. Frame with non-acidic archival materials.