An ongoing series of sculptures made from cut and reclaimed industrial steel. Strongly redolent of modernist abstraction of the 1950s and ‘60s – the series form a collective suite of relics that function both as critiques of this masculine, industrial kind of work as well as as secular shrines to progress and human civilisation, albeit through an optic of skeptical optimism. To corrupt the works further the artist has the steel sculptures shot through with high-powered rifles by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department. Peppering the steel with holes, performative acts of out-sourced penetration. The sculptures extend MacGarry’s practice of grafting micro materials to macro narratives.
Rhetorical Structures series
Above (detail):
Under the dimming sun
Steel, found object, enamel, bullet holes
3 400 x 1 000 x 1 400 mm
2018
Private collection
For most of the many, much of the time.
Mild steel, marble, bullet holes, enamel paint
2 300 x 1 600 x 2 400 mm
2015
Private collection
Untitled (Durban)
Steel, enamel, found object
2 450 x 1 456 x 1 561 mm
2018
Private collection
Lords of the prior darkness
Steel, enamel, found object
Size variable
2018
Private collection
Hou my vas Korporaal
Mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, enamel
445 x 306 x 278 mm
2019
Edition 10 +2 A.P.
Under the dimming sun
Steel, found object, enamel, bullet holes
3 400 x 1 000 x 1 400 mm
2018
Private collection
Untitled (Aspidistra)
Steel, found objects, enamel, concrete
6 100 x 1 600 x 1 600 mm
2018
Simulcast
Steel, enamel, found object
420 x 220 x 220 mm
2019
Edition 10 +2 A.P.