André Clements revels in contradiction, such as creating painterly impressions through algorithmic processes, and pursuing traditional aesthetics through computational methodologies and technology.
Clements often works with recursive averaging of layered photographs. These realist-abstractions explore narratives that diverge widely in their search for significance. Yet, they consolidate into a unique aesthetic language, in which painterly, ethereal and almost esoteric qualities arise from the melding of higher-order complexity and extremes of ontological integration and isolation. Intimately personal sentiment, perspective and histories are integrated with metalogic- and symbolic modelling, into dynamic vistas, morphing glances and untethered imaginings.
André Clements, born in 1973, began his lifelong studies with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pretoria. He most recently collaborated with Daniel Hirschmann to produce the successful ‘Dencity’ two-person exhibition in 2011. André’s debut solo exhibition ‘Aesthesia’ will open at Res Gallery in October 2012.