Cape Town artist, Evan Oberholster, sets the nude within contemporary culture.
The idea that clothes make the man has been around since the beginning of time, although it was Mark Twain who first made it a pithy saying, and went further to say that 'naked people have little or no effect on society'.
This is a concept that Cape Town artist Evan Oberholster turns upside down, as he shows how society and nudity are inextricably intertwined. What Oberholster does is to deconstruct through his nude paintings of everyday people, the camouflage that clothing provides and to show how culture is not just a construct of clothing, language, belief, and behaviour. Culture exists also in nudity.
Oberholster, who has had several one-man and group exhibitions since returning in the mid-1990s to South Africa from the Netherlands, has long explored the relationship between nudity and being. His latest showing is a first public viewing of ordinary people in ordinary settings, all nude ... 21st Century Nudes

of male and female nudes. The work of this contemporary South African artist is shown in three galleries
www.evanoberholster.com
submission date: October 24, 2002

artist's statement, biography, previous exhibitions and print quality digital images
www.sparx.co.za/oberholster.htm