Prints

: Co-existence, roots- father and son, an autobiography, H250xW112cm Inkjet on paper . “Dead Sea” healing mud a signifier of a renascence and father, son relationship. My late father’s upper body floats in air-heaven, his legs rooted in the earth as an expression, the quest for survival as a cushion against catastrophe –poverty, oppression, ecological, juxtaposed with his mud coated artist son formally divided by the subterranean chasm (2007)

: EXILE GENOCIDE, inkjet on paper, into Exile Born into Exile The blood oozing Umbilical cord purpled blue, My motherland Disembowelled with the scalpel Eagle crossed winged crusade with The Mars god of war, The Star and Crescent Tomas de Torquemada, The Grand Inquisitor Hammer and Sickle Swastika tattooed Into the plundered, numbered earth Ingrained ,stung , cross-pollinated , Victims of Imperialism Reactive Behavioural, Alien in the land of the xenophobiac Bondage to the national case history, The umbilical cord Blood-stained collective memory Nomadism,multiculturalism…… Death march, Hunger march In search of work…… Next year Jerusalem! Eagle-ancient Egyptians, , Mars –Romans,Crusades,Star with the Crescent , Inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada-Spainish Inquisition Hammer& sickle –Communism Swastika-Nazism(2007)

: I Photographed Joseph Beuys erecting his installation “Plight” Anthony D’ Offay Gallery London ,Sept 1985 digital, inkjet on fine art paper, H135x110cm

: Dematrialization of the benu (Alien III), digital, H1.1010 X W 1.96 X D 10 cmLaminated on Perspex, 2001

: Homage to a bird, H100cmx130cm Inkjet on paper A nest, a place for incubation and survival confronting the ecological extremes of present climatic conditions. About flight, freedom and human rights(2009)

: Loneliness turbulence and rebirth, H110x147cm, digital-inkjet on paper The home inhabits the dolls head, like a spinning top; playfulness, and spinning in the cosmos signify the life cycle – birth/death , life cycles, movement, micro/ macrospace and scratches record/biography of the self(2009)

: Partus, H110cmx130cm, Inkjet on paper Birth/death , life cycles ,movement ,micro/ macrospace and scratches record/biography of the self(2009)

: Angst 21st Century”, H212x140cm , b&w photograph ,digital print on perspex. 303 shot Frozen angst Full stop. Time frame, Framing the viscuous- The sea Skin of Earth Solid, non-solid Yin-Yang, Catalysing existence,sun Geometrizing, Seeking the still centre. Of the burning circle. -State of Angst, Anarchy, War, Peace, Heidegger, Kiergegaard, Levinas, essences, And the olde Guard(2014)

: Maiden with an M16”( Maiden with a Gun/girl with a Turban’), H.110x70cm Photography, digital work, inkjet A photograph I shot in Jerusalem of a settler from the occupied territories with a gun posed against a wall –signifying, masculinity, division, terror in an area of conflict. I observed a parallel significance to Vermeers ‘Maiden with a Pearl Earring’, in this instance the turban is not worn as an exotic costume as in 1660 parading the ‘clothing of the enemy’ but as a religious veil to hide, guard her sexuality. The turban (veil) being a ritual of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. The gun replaces the earring as her life support system(2007)

: Memory and Dream of Joseph Beuys, H135x110cm digital inkjet on fine art paper Beuys erecting his installation “Plight” Anthony D’ Offay Gallery Sept 1985(1985-1990)

: Close Encounters of a 3rd Kind , H110x W110cm Inkjet on paper My work is about the metamorphosis of nature the body reduced to a labyrinthe of chains signifying slavery, time machined in a colonial era, the narrative with Saartje Baartman a Khoisan woman shipped to London 1810 from South Africa by a ship’s captain the close encounter .Her body became the attraction in a cage in view of the Darwinian scientists and the public. Slavery abolished, died Paris 1816 aged 26. Anatomist Curvier demonstrated another encounter and dissected her genitals. labia search of ‘primitive sexuality’ at the Academie Royale de Medecin concluded the oversize genatalia evident of the sexual appetite. After much legal wrangling between the President of South Africa Nelson Mandela and President Mitterand of France, Saartje Baartmans remains were returned to South Africa in August 2002 (2012)

: Close Encounters of a 3rd Kind 2012 H100x W100cm Inkjet on paper My work is about the metamorphosis of nature the body reduced to a labyrinthe of chains signifying slavery, time machined in a colonial era, the narrative with Saartje Baartman a Quena woman shipped to London 1810 from South Africa by a ship’s captain the close encounter .Her body became the attraction in a cage in view of the Darwinian scientists and the public. Slavery abolished, died Paris 1816 aged 26. Anatomist Curvier demonstrated another encounter and dissected her genitals. labia search of ‘primitive sexuality’ at the Academie Royale de Medecin concluded the oversize genatalia evident of the sexual appetite. After much legal wrangling between the President of South Africa Nelson Mandela and President Mitterand of France, Saartje Baartmans remains were returned to South Africa in August 2012

: Golem’s Renascence, H.115cmx110cm Inkjet on paper Many people have learnt from the costly experience of the earthquake, conflict The Golem arose out of a clay model to defend the community against persecution. To reconfirm the preciousness of “living” and the importance of “restoration of mind” a figure covered in “Dead Sea” healing mud a signifier of a renascence, the above instance a dream form to defend in a region of conflict the Dead Sea.(2012)

: Golem’s Jerusalem, 15cmx110cm Inkjet on paper Many people have learnt from the costly experience of the earthquake, conflict The Golem arose out of a clay model to defend the community against persecution. To reconfirm the preciousness of “living” and the importance of “restoration of mind” a figure covered in “Dead Sea” healing mud a signifier of a renascence, the above instance a dream form to defend in a region of conflict the Dead Sea(2018)

: Golem the Fireman, H.115cmx110cm Digital, inkjet print on paper About painted sculpture ;embryo, golmi, unshaped matter, boor,strategy, survival , decision, warrior against persecution, racism anti-Semitism,healing,peace, freedom, humanity reactive syndrome(2007)

: Memory and Dream(Transmutation) , H128cmx110cm Digital , photography , inkjet Photographed pvc pipes which I knotted into a labyrinthe and superimposed digitally an x-ray of myself. . I would like to think it is about mind architectonic processes; metamorphosis of nature, substance, body, form into another of the same volume or area. The dematerialization of the body from birth to the death process , roots to dreams signifier of other dimensions in the human psyche and universe, an interpretation of dreams(2012)

: Afterlife Snapshot 1999 H.71x88x2cm B&W photographic film, digital work laminated on Perspex, X-Ray of myself and my gulf war gasmask we donned the gasmasks as defence of Saddam Hussein’s rockets which were supposedly armed with chemical warheads fired at Israel

: The Highwayman 2010 H.115cmx 110cm Inkjet on paper The highwayman crucified, enmeshed by a labyrinth of highways where he preys off his victims in the Metropolis, the concept of a centralized contemporary social structure created for the well-being of its law abiding communities a centrifugal force confronted by modern dualism ;‘good and evil’, national and international terrorism and crime

: The writing is on the wall Homage to 6M Jews 1999 H56x50cm Digital work, Inkjet on Fuji photo rag. . My work is about words changing the world of existences and survival focus, extermination 6m Jews 1940-45. I superimposed photographs fragments of the Qumran scrolls (73C.E ) The signifier the struggle for existence parallel to contemporary events which plagues the 20th &21st century

: Clash of Civilisations 2018 H155x100 digital,inkjet, fuji paper Sometimes to those who believe spells the final deathknell in the New York obelisk That the burnt itself to ashes Is nothing but an untruth The Bennu’s ashes resurrects the quintessence of rebirth unlike the dragon that fumed the towered walls and speared its spirit into non-existence Its all in the spheres Where the codex is inscribed The messianic phenomenon Inherent in every myth its common denominator, the Bennu ,Brahma and Phoenix transmuting to infinitum veiled in the ethereal, passing judgement

: Incision of a 3rd kind Jerusalem 2018 H 180x110cm Digital, Inkjet on fuji paper ‘Words change the world ‘(Walt Whitman) like the saw severing the rock of ages past;disclosing- revealing ;codex metaphor for the wheel of time and movement; language of the spheres, domes (Sephiroth) -dividing,(Codex in the Aramaic language like that which I have superimposed on the cutting wheel ,prophesized 9/11)conflicting ,juxtaposing, scribble language, negative + positive,organic and geometric unifying, combining, coelescing into time, space, continuum. Zohar………………=We trust in God, (Allah) when the flood begins and the fortress of all who believe in it, in this instance Jerusalem. Jerusalem positioned in time /space via an aerial photograph for this installation.This work is about the division of peoples caught up perpetual conflict and claims of sovereignty through words from the Old Testament, the Koran to the propagandistic media of the 21st century. * Incision of a 3rd kind implies general anesthesia

: Fall out (Nuclear) 2017 H99.05x311cm Digital, Inkjet on fuji paper Concerns of war; nuclear fallout, radiation; signs scribbles scratched in the landscape rock art of our civilization .The presence of a lone figure I name the mud Golem in contemplation, an animated anthropomorphic being a survivor and defender against the ruthless empire

: Golem’s Renascence II 2009 H.115cmx110cm Inkjet on fuji paper Many people have learnt from the costly experience of the earthquake, conflict The Golem arose out of a clay model to defend the community against persecution. To reconfirm the preciousness of “living” and the importance of “restoration of mind” a figure covered in “Dead Sea” healing mud a signifier of a renascence, the above instance a dream form to defend in a region of conflict the Dead Sea

: Burnt Tree 2015 H110x136cm Digital work , inkjet print on paper Narrative-Jerusalem, impending events, roots, birth death

: Beresheet (Genesis) 2019 H100x134cm digital,inkjet, fuji paper Signifier time continuum; birth phenomena word mila

: Clash between Civilisations I 2008. H150x97cm digital, inkjet, fuji paper

: Incision of a 3rd kind Jerusalem II H 180x110cm Digital, Inkjet on fuji paper ‘Words change the world ‘(Walt Whitman) like the saw severing the rock of ages past;disclosing- revealing ;codex metaphor for the wheel of time and movement; language of the spheres, domes (Sephiroth) -dividing,(Codex in the Aramaic language like that which I have superimposed on the cutting wheel ,prophesized 9/11)conflicting ,juxtaposing, scribble language, negative + positive,organic and geometric unifying, combining, coelescing into time, space, continuum. Zohar………………=We trust in God, (Allah) when the flood begins and the fortress of all who believe in it, in this instance Jerusalem. Jerusalem positioned in time /space via an aerial photograph for this installation.This work is about the division of peoples caught up perpetual conflict and claims of sovereignty through words from the Old Testament, the Koran to the propagandistic media of the 21st century

: Cutting -2.Jpg Incision of a 3rd kind III 140×100 Digital,Inkjet on fuji paper.2018

: Life support system 2009. H110xW154cm About support systems-survival, life cycles-birth, death , macro /microspace, wheels of life ,bird,flight, freedom

: HOLOCAUST 2019 “Tunnel” 2019 H50x56cm. Digital work Inkjet on Fuji photo rag Homage to 6M Jews The codex deciphered, Ashes redeemed An escape artery Tunneled Via the earths dungeons Into deaths dimensions Where the ark in the ether Floats and all that sailed upon her.

: Origins of the world and the epic voyage 2009 H127cmx100cm Inkjet on paper Where the dancing sun bled creation into the common earth And rebelled against the dark Where the mammoth phallus Warping reality-Mission planetary habitability And the hearts orgasmic drumbeat negotiates Nirvana And Gaia first bare starry Ouranos is born

: Para = outside; nous = mindspin 2009 H110cmx126cm Inkjet on paper One subconsciously conjures imagery that is by and large autobiographical. In this instance confronted by a primal fear hardwired into our systems. I swam in the deep sea off Cape Town later to be told the great white shark lurks the deep, a territorial incursion where the shark has torn the legs of surfers.Twined living under the dictatorship of the once horrendous white Apartheid regime apartheid’s paranoiac regime juxtaposed by a landscape of unparalleled beauty generating my award –winning works; Jaws and White Dog, Angst 20th/21st century and Some of my best friends. . The Shoah, Soviet era coupled with Mccarthyism , the Inquisition -Marranos , Marat Sade’s human struggle , contemporary terrorism, nuclear or otherwise catalyzes the hidden monster within us –paranoia

: Quest for Peace” 2000 197x244cm b&w photograph,digital work on duroclear transparency Big Bang – Photoshot In the Huleh Valley Pelicans pioneering flight Webbed feet – begging recognition, Metamorphosising Evolution, Dan tribe, Esau, Romans, Byzantine, Bedouins Papyrus – Words + Dots change The world, Liberty, equality, etc. Seurat, Pointillism – digitalized Babbage Web sites Military sites, Process Juxtaposing organic+ Geometric Dissecting, cutting Juggling, magic Healing Carving Painting Negotiating Agreement State – process Transtate – death, peace

: “Points of View” 2001 80x149x2cm. B&W photographic film, laminated on Perspex, awarded the “Lorenzo il Magnifico BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DELL’ ARTE CONTEMPORANEA Città di Firenze A work of diametrically opposed beliefs and contradictions We slaughter cows for food and survival, the Hindu sects do not, it signifies reincarnation. I juxtaposed a gasmask used in the Gulf war 1993 with a photo of a flayed cowhead at the Machaneh Yehuda’s market in Jerusalem, the victim of terrorism, my eye staring in opposed direction as to the cow. I reminisce of millions slaughtered by the Hitler’s in history and my family.

: Grope 2009 film, laminated on Perspex Groping the Dark Evolutionary Endpoints She fell into the abyss Shedding her fur, Groping the dark endpoints of existences- The heavenly vagina Vacuuming Morse’s SOS , Assimilating Seurat’s pixels , Mandelbrot’s fractals, Hawkin’s telescopes My microprintscopes – About ying and yang Juxtaposing the geometric and organic; Body and Skin States and transtates, Digitallizing the *brith universal world processes Of chaos , choices and spermatazoids. *brith=Genesis in Hebrew

: The Philosophers Stone 2001 H.92x103x2cm B&W Photographic film ,digital work laminated on perspex

: Baartman Inkjet on paper Saartje Baartman born in 1789 worked as a slave in Cape Town. A British ship’s doctor William Dunlop took her to travel to England to display her as a “freak”, a “scientific curiosity” with her exceptionally large buttocks and genitals. In the early 1800s Europeans and Darwinian scientists were obsessed with their own superiority, and proving that others, particularly blacks, were inferior but oversexed. She spent four years in London then moved to Paris, where she continued her shows. Once the Parisians got tired of the Baartman show, she turned to prostitution. In 1815 she died of alchoholism, flu and possibly syphilis. In Paris after her death the Georges Cuvier the scientist removed her skeleton .made a plaster cast of her body, pickled her brain and genitals and displayed them at the Musee de l’Homme in Paris.In 1994, president Nelson Mandela demanded from the French Pres. Mitterrand that her remains be brought home. Sarah Baartman’s remains where finally laid to rest at the Gamtoos River Valley in the Eastern Cape on Women’s Day, 9 August 2002

: Baartman’s slave master Inkjet on paper Baartman’s slave master Dunlop deals slavery kidnapped Quena African to Europe for genital experimentation by Darwin and Curvier 1815 the anatomist upon death organs displayed Musée de l’Homme Paris to 1994.Given State funeral South Africa 1994.

: The Birth of the Sun 2000 . H110x135cm Inkjet print on paper She screamed As she dreamed As though she went Through the valley Of a thousand hells Light came And the son Was born in freedom

: Anatomy of a dictator 2013 Inkjet on paper

: The Last Supper 2008. H110x2.20cm Inkjet on paper The International Biennial Print R.O.C. Taiwan, China Transfer and Transmission 2008 The Last Supper contemplating a contemporary confrontation of the coming Apocalypse

: ANATOMY OF A DESPOT 2011 H125x110cm Inkjet print, digital , Narrative portrayal of fascism, Nazism; concern children in wars, horrendous methods visa vie annihilation of the innocent population subject by despotic rule. Masked ,signs the formal qualities brilliant colour propagandists disguised military aggression aimed at territorial conquest as righteous

: BLUE 2013 H140xW100cm Inkjet print, digital Narrative portrayal; signifier , paradise juxtaposed ; womans head submerged amidst the beautiful coral reefs and the destruction by pollution .Environmental concerns issues ecological threats to our civilization. Dangers to the fertility cycle man, woman birth defects to the immune system, shifts in physiological cycles of the human body

: Search of the Waters of Oblivion 2012 H110x W110cm Inkjet on paper An oriental tale from a Persian manuscript and combination of science and surrealism: which seems beyond terrestrial experience, the attention given to geological and meteorological phenomena. The hero Sadak is sent by his Sultan, Amurath, to discover the memory-destroying “waters of oblivion.” The Sultan maliciously intends to use the waters on Sadak’s wife Kalasrade in a seduction attempt. Sadak endures a tempest at sea, a plague, evil genii, a subterranean whirlpool — before he attains his goal. In the end, the Sultan himself falls victim to the water’s effect. Amurath dies; Sadak becomes Sultan. My Sadak is coated with Dead Sea healing mud

Basil Colin Frank

International laureate winning artist

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