Fanie Buys
Fanie Buys works predominantly in oils, painting impasto impressionist style works, his subject matter spanning landscape to pop culture, “passé press releases and gracefully ageing film stars.” His pop aesthetic coupled with dark and humorous titles transforms the art into an incredibly relatable experience of cheap holidays, the kitsch of nostalgia, and the inevitability of life happening to you. Buys exhibited at DAOR Contemporary Group Exhibitions Autumn 2021 and Autumn 2022.
Fanie Buys, Bishopscourt Dharma Death Birth Cosmic Cycle Gap Year in India Renovation Property Portfolio Meditation Abstraction I, 2021, oil on canvas
Fanie Buys, Bishopscourt Dharma Death Birth Cosmic Cycle Gap Year in India Renovation Property Portfolio Meditation Abstraction II, 2021, oil on canva
Fanie Buys, Unintentionally Poetic Artwork in Bishopscourt Death Dharma Manic Episode at Running Group, 2021, oil on canvas paper, 21 x 30 cm
Fanie Buys, Hibiscus in the Shade (sunkissed not burnt). Oil on Fabriano Tela, 2022, 15 x 20 cm
Fanie Buys, Karaoke Video from Heaven, Oil on Fabriano Tela, 2022, 30 x 40 cm
Fanie Buys, Timeshare Imbued with Divine Grace (Llundudno), Oil on Fabriano Tela, 21 x 30 cm, 2022
Fanie Buys, Urn designed to hold the ashes of George Michael, Oil on Air drying clay, 2022, 26 x 17 x 17 cm
Fanie Buys was born in Gansbaai in 1993. After being shuffled through a fair range of the Garden Route socio-economic spectrum he attended the Michaelis School of Fine Art, graduating with a distinction in Studiowork in 2016. Buys was a co-recipient of the Judy Steinberg Award for Painting and the Simon Gerson Award for an exceptional body of work. Predominantly working a figurative style, Buys’ painting is a catalyst to explore representation of the human figure in a variety of media- focusing on passé press releases and gracefully aging film stars. Buys has been included in several group shows and has mounted two solo shows This Man in 2018 and Happy Birthday Jesus! in 2019 (both at 99 Loop gallery in Cape Town).
Exhibitions
2022
Calls to Mind, group show
Koop Projects, Brighton, UK
Fluorescents, group show (curator and participant)
Server Room Studios, Cape Town
Between Image and Text, group show
The Gallery, Johannesburg
2021
Miss, Solo Presentation
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Anthropomorphic, group show
RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
The Lockdown Collection, group show online
2020
Latitudes Art Fair, group show
Spier Arts Trust Booth, Johannesburg
SHE, group show
RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
Proxies, group show
The Gallery, Johannesburg
The Grand V, group show
Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
On The Up, group show
Imibala Gallery, Cape Town
2019
Happy Birthday Jesus! solo show
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Self, group show
Gallery Glen Carlou, Stellenbosch
Open Studios , group show
RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
The Artist is Present, solo performance
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
RMB Turbine Art Fair, group show
99 Loop Gallery Booth, Johannesburg
Countershading, group show
Art on Avenues, Somerset West
Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Competition, group show
Fynarts, Hermanus
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, group show
99 Loop Gallery Booth, Cape Town
2018
The Cat Show, group show
David Krut Projects, Johannesburg
Close Encounters, group show
Smith Studio, Cape Town
Untitled 6.99, group show
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Competition Show, group show
Fynarts, Hermanus
This Man, solo show
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, group show
99 Loop Gallery Booth, Cape Town
2017
A Piece of Work, group show
David Krut Projects, Johannesburg
In with the New, group show
The Gallery, Riebeek Kasteel
Nano 1.1, group show
Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
Untitled 5.99, group show
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Out of Nowhere, group show
Smith Studio, Cape Town
Fluid: Some Recent Perspectives in Painting, group show
Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2016
Michaelis Graduate Exhibition, group show
Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town
Series/Friends 3.3: An Open Exchange, group show
World Art, Cape Town
Unpacking, group show
Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town
2015
Sanlam Portrait Award Top 100, group show
Casa Labia, Cape Town
Education
PGCE (1 Year) 2017 University of Cape Town
Specialising in Art and English
BA Fine Art (4 Years) 2013-2016 Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Specialising in Printmaking.
Distinction in studio work & Co-Winner of the Judy Steinberg Prize for Painting and the Simon Gerson Prize for an Original Body of Work