Johan Stegmann

Stegmann (b. 1988) describes his preferred mediums as “Charcoal, Etchings and Explosions”. His practice applies the aesthetic and technical skills of etching and charcoal as mediums utilized in the Renaissance and Romantic art eras associated with Western classicism. As a point of entry, he utilizes this sensibility to entice the viewer into detailed - almost miniature - narratives rooted in historical legacies and fallacies. He presents ideas of erasure by surreptitiously inserting iconography borrowed from popular culture, political figures and various South Africa held wars to denote paradoxical perspectives on the duality of contemporary identity in general and his Afrikaans upbringing specifically.