Cape Town South Africa

The brand new Raw Vision Art Gallery in Woodstock will open its doors tomorrow evening (April 16) with an exhibition of the works of artist, collector and cultural producer Mike Fisher.

The exhibition, called Messages from the Future, is Fisher’s first Cape Town venture. His work has already been seen as far afield as the UK, the US and Israel. Messages from the Future is being described by Artzone as an exhibition "of affectingly colourful digital prints, exploring the artist’s own emotional response to notions of the manic everyday of both present and future."

"Taking influence from the semiotics of primitivism and Modernist abstraction, Fisher presents a frenzied montage of optimistic reflections and dystopic visions, warnings and prophecies about the futures of the artist’s imagination. Using images and symbols that are at once easily recognizable, and yet elusively free of predetermined meaning, Fisher’s prints are always intriguingly open to interpretation."

Fisher created the images of Messages from the Future by using state of the art digital painting technology. He worked directly onto a Cintiq computer screen as if on paper or canvas, and took advantage of the pure pigment of contemporary digital prints.

Woodstock is fast emerging as Cape Town’s newly defined gallery hub. Raw Vision will certainly be a colourful addition to an already vibrant community. 

Gallery doors open at 6pm tomorrow night. The address is Raw Vision Gallery, 89 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock.

If you would like to attend, RSVP by calling 076 581 9468.