Maguelone Orliange-Ladsous,
Director of the Alliance Française Pretoria,
has the pleasure to invite you to the opening of an exhibition of paintings
by

IVAN DU TOIT
The exhibition will be opened
by
Debbie Cloete
on
Thursday 13 August 2009 at 19:00 for 19:30
Closing Date : 4 September 2009
Alliance Française Pretoria
Corner of De Kock and River streets,
Sunnyside,
Pretoria
Tel : 012 343 6563
Gallery Hours
Monday to Thursday - 8:00 to 19:30
Friday - 8:00 to 13:00
Saturday – 8:30 to 12:00
ARTIST STATEMENT :
The exhibition is a series of the ongoing study of chaos, in the process of painting and in everyday life.
The artist attempts to recreate the human condition of having to bring order out of the chaos of everyday existence.
With painting, du Toit finds the same condition, when forcing order witch is the struggle for every painter the experience becomes rigid and stiff, the antidote to this is a total surrender to chaos, which brings out the perfect balance between chaos and order.
Using a more toned down palette the mood of the paintings became a mixture of volatile emotions and tranquil surrender.


