Jean Du Plessis

Founded on a intimate understanding of paint expression and the construction of three dimensional sculptural works, Jeans pieces explores the relationship between the the physcology of the self expression, the construct of the work and the individual onlooker.

Using a variety of media including sand ochre, industrial paints, cement, wood, industrial metals he situates his work as a contemporary extension of himself and the visual impact he has on the landscape and onlooker as a human act of creating something that does not exist and has never seen before.

All the works created comes from emotional base, grounded as a visceral act of creation withinhis canton of experiences and his minimal approach to artistic life and art aesthetic. This mindset has assisted him thru time and has become his ethos, his work is uniquely recognisable as is own and as a scholar of abstraction to his core.

Du Plessis has been exhibiting internationally and is currently represented by Art Collector and Gallerist based in Brussels, Belgium. With group and solo exhibitions in Cape Town and Johannesburg his work is also part of the Listed Redefine Property Group collection in Rosebank, Johannesburg.

DU PLESSIS'S SHOWS INCLUDE EXHIBITIONS HELD BY THE ARTIST AT:

The Space, Hamburg, Germany 1990
Caam Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2013
Caam Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2014
Caam Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2015
Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2016
Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2017
Turbine Art Fair, Kalashnikow Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa 2017
Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2018
Intoto Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2019
Kunstraum Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2020
Kunstraum Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2022
Kunstraum Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2023
Galler 1, Hamburg, Germany 2024
Schloss Osterwald, Stuttgart, Germany 2024
Artis Propera Ltd, Mauritius, 2024