Une Saison Mémorable

Partir loin et profondément sans réfléchir
Sous le tapis poussiéreux d’un autre monde
Et rechercher le bonheur dans l’avenir
Malgré les doutes acidulés qui nous inondent.

Il faut boire effréné, partout et constamment,
Dans toute envie et tous gestes, au goute a goute,
La beauté. Se défaire sans cesse du carcan
Que l’on s’est imposé et la suivre coute que coute.

Apprendre, grandir et devenir. Dans son sillage,
S’en inspirer, y aspirer : comme une image
Qu’il faudrait étendre au dessus de sa vie
Pour la contempler satisfait de son dernier lit.

Tany, Novembre 2008

www.dejavu-production.com

Personnal Point of View on Tanzania

Mt Meru drowning in clouds

Top of Africa

Going Back Down

Our Team of Guides, Cook and Porters

Tree in a House at Stowntwon - Zanzibar

Daulphins on Approach

Exhibition by Tany – Nov. 27th – Johannesburg

Exhibition : Paintings by TANY

Opening on Thursday 27 November at 6pm

Yellow Frog by Tany

Colours ! Red, Gold and Green. Fed from the start with fresh pop culture, witty advertisement and subversive entertainment Tany has created a world of his own ; where paint and stories come together in a string of unexpected and characteristic portraits. Hip, hop. Come and see this family album of people chanting cacophonously in his imagination.

So who’s He ? The big boy Tany : a Frenchman born in the 80’s and educated in Paris. It’s not what you think ; the multicultural character travels around the globe – hop, hop – to better understand his inner mechanisms. On his journey, stimulated by powerful foreign aesthetics he started creating relentlessly. That is when Tany’s world was created using reminiscences of Damian Hurst, Klimt, Alechinsky, Zeng Fanzhi or Bacon’s works. Soon Tany became father to the dejavu-production.com project, his virtual gallery of multi-disciplinary artistic creations. Welcome to Tany’s land. This November, The Alliance Française will be exhibiting his work for the first time in Johannesburg. Ta-Da !

At the edge of his reasoning, things come deconstructed and meaningless. They float around in his mind and it is unclear to him how they should fit back in. So he mingles, he mixes and what comes out is what you will witness… and most importantly what you will make of it.

(The exhibition continues until Saturday 6 December.)

Venue
Gallery Gerard Sekoto
Alliance Française of Johannesburg
17 Lower Park Drive corner Kerry Road
Parkview – opposite Zoo Lake

Gallery hours
Monday – Thursday : 9 am – 8 pm
Friday : 9 am – 6 pm
Saturday : 9 am – 1 pm

For more information
culture.jhb@alliance.org.za
011 646 1169