In Issue 15 of one small seed we profiled South African artist Asha Zero. This artistic avatar has been crafted beyond the confines of gender, age and race to allow the artworks to speak for themselves uninhibited. It would be easy to mistake these paintings for carefully constructed collages but these works have been carefully crafted with acrylic paint. This kind of optical illusion is known as trompe-l’oeil (‘trick of the eye’), a new world painting genre and extreme form of realism that allows artworks to bend the fine line separating reality from illusion.

Check out his exhibition at 34 Long Fine Art tomorrow evening.

http://www.onesmallseed.net/events/asha-zero-macro-soda-text

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