Beezy Bailey, The Love Revolution, Everard Read Gallery 3-24 March 2021

EVERARD READ CAPE TOWN | CIRCA | 3 PORTSWOOD RD, WATERFRONT

www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/ ctgallery@everard.co.za | +27 21 418 4527

It is not surprising, in the context of our preoccupation with a pandemic and possibly at the pinnacle of our most narcissistic epoch, that Beezy Bailey should extrude a solo exhibition titled The Love Revolution, which takes place at Everard Read Cape Town’s CIRCA gallery in March. Bailey has always championed art as a balm for weary, saddened souls. With humanity universally exhausted, wounded and wary, we are all in need of soul muti (medicine). It takes a special kind of creative to exhort us to our highest good – love. For what love demands first and foremost is imagination and trust, and Bailey has that in spades.

In this exhibition, Bailey transports us through inner sanctums, outer worlds and other planets. Here his protagonists gallivant, fly, cavort, dance or are periodically still, at rest. They stare at the sun or stare out at their audience curiously.

Indeed one cannot engage with Bailey’s work without being transported into another magical reality which insists one asks the question “What if…?” I believe this demand on our imagination is the very same impulse that we have to engage in order to overcome the many obstacles in our path as human beings existing during a pandemic. Though a vaccine requires scientific know-how, it also requires ingenuity and vision to even conceive of its existence. Similarly, imagination will be the cornerstone of our organic solution to the chronic constipation of mass polarisation and global climate change.

By presenting the preposterous, the impossible, the extraordinary, Bailey invites us to re-examine our notions of possibility, stretch the limits of our fatigued imaginations and to move away from the fear and hatred, all the while exhorting us to live and love and laugh aloud – to join the revolution!

Charles Shields

Gallery Director

This is Beezy Bailey’s 12th solo exhibition at Everard Read, and his first major one in four years, since the 2016 inaugural exhibition of Cape Town’s CIRCA Gallery, The 1,000 Year Dance Cure.

EVERARD READ CAPE TOWN | CIRCA | 3 PORTSWOOD RD, WATERFRONT

Mon to Fri 09.00 – 17.00

Saturdays 09.00 – 13.00

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