South African born, Victor Gordon has made and exhibited his art for forty years. He is primarily a painter and sculptor. He also creates installations, assemblages, collages, drawings and photographs. His wide-ranging concerns and techniques offer uncompromising, refreshingly unique and often quirky and challenging artistic statements.
Socially aware he considers himself an engaged ‘wake-up’ artist.
His works are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of South Africa in Cape Town, the South African Constitution Court Collection in Johannesburg, the University of South Africa (Unisa) in Tshwane/Pretoria as well as the Ifa Lethu Collection, also based in Tshwane/ Pretoria.
He has published It wasn’t me I won’t do it again – a 394 page graphic memoir providing his ideas and the evolution of some 260 art works. The book is available in hard copy direct from the artist or can be obtained in ebook format through this website.
Oil on canvas. H122 x W90 cm The camp orchestra’s cellist practices. Personal survival in a Death Camp was imperative and the ability to play a musical instrument meant a reprieve from selection for the gas chamber. However, this came at a huge cost. The Concentration Camp (KZ or KL) orchestra was forced to perform for the transports – as they arrived from all over occupied Europe. The intention of providing live...read more
Oil on canvas. H121.3 x W182.3 cm. A dystopian orchestration set against the backdrop of Mussolini’s Italy. Mussolini’s fascism began 100 years ago in 1922 and lasted over two decades until his ignominious end in 1945. I have included the symbolic period trappings and in addition have fused multiple contemporary parallels. UNSEE THIS draws attention to the effectiveness of Edward Bernays’ ideas applied in the execrable and insidious psychological manipulation of the...read more
