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Jaco van den Heever's Of dreams and nightmares at Artspace on 1 February 2012
Artist Jaco van den Heever's latest solo exhibition will open at Artspace on 1 February 2012. Titled Of dreams and nightmares, this new body of works is the artist's third solo exhibition. Van den Heever is known for his visually compelling and highly nuanced drawings of Johannesburg urban landscapes and structures which explore the complicated relation that Johannesburg has to its own history and civil geography.

"My eyes are shut. I imagine a past landscape, a primordial veld, dotted with prospectors all staking their claims. Aspirant men with big dreams all eager to uncover the riches beneath the Highveld soil. The quest for material wealth has forced this once pristine landscape into unrecognisable terrain. The industrial machine has relentlessly carved and shaped the land into "Johannesburg", a mining town, a city, a metropolis", says van den Heever.

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