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<ul> <li> <A href="artists.php" title="ARTISTS - information about artists">ARTISTS</A> <ul> <li><a href="about_gallery_schedule.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">Gallery viewing schedule</a></li> <li><a href="about_directions.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">Directions to the gallery</a></li> <li><a href="about_mailinglist.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">Join our mailing list</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <A href="exhibitions_latest.php" title="LATEST EXHIBITION - view exhibition work, press coverage and downloads">LATEST EXHIBITION</A></li> <li><A href="exhibitions.php" title="PAST EXHIBITIONS - view exhibition work, press coverage and downloads">PAST EXHIBITIONS</A></li> <li><A href="online_sales.php" title="ONLINE SALES">ONLINE SALES</A></li> </ul> <div id="artists"> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>ARTISTS : ROOKE GALLERY</title> <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="inc/content.css"> <meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="artists, Rooke Gallery, Zander Blom, Liam Lynch, Olaf Bisschoff, Travels of Bad, Drain of Progress, Terra Incognita, Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, Art Gallery, contemporary art"> <meta http-equiv="Description" content="Rooke Gallery Artists. The Rooke Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in Johannesburg that represent 3 artists; Zander Blom, Liam Lynch and Olaf Bisschoff. Rooke Gallery is the primary dealer/agent of these artists and their work is exclusively available via the Rooke Gallery."> </head> <body> <h1>ARTISTS</h1> Rooke Gallery works with a small stable of select artists. <br> <br> Unless by invitation as part of a group show, the gallery does not unfortunately show work on behalf of individual artists that it does not represent. <br> <br> Current Rooke Gallery represented artists include: <br> <br> <a href="artists_roger_ballen.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">Roger Ballen</a> <br> <a href="artists_the_bang_bang_club.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">The Bang Bang Club</a> <br> <a href="artists_zander_blom.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">Zander Blom</a> <br> <a href="artists_i-jusi.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">i-jusi</a> <br> <a href="artists_mark_kannemeyer.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">Mark Kannemeyer</a> <br> <a href="artists_liam_lynch.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">Liam Lynch</a> <br> <a href="artists_garth_meyer.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">Garth Meyer</a> <br> <a href="artists_sop.php" target="content2" onClick="top.activate(2);">The Society of Photographers</a> <br> <br> <script type="text/javascript"> if (top.frames.length == 0) { location.href='/?t=artists'; } </script> </body> </html> </div> <div id="artists_roger_ballen"> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>ROGER BALLEN : ARTISITS : ROOKE GALLERY</title> <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="inc/content.css"> <meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="artists, the bang bang club, GREG MARINOVICH, JOAO SILVA, Rooke Gallery, Zander Blom, Liam Lynch, Olaf Bisschoff, Travels of Bad, Drain of Progress, Terra Incognita, Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, Art Gallery, contemporary art"> <meta http-equiv="Description" content="Roger Ballen at Rooke Gallery. The Rooke Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in Johannesburg that represent 3 artists; Zander Blom, Liam Lynch and Olaf Bisschoff. Rooke Gallery is the primary dealer/agent of these artists and their work is exclusively available via the Rooke Gallery."> <script src="inc/general.inc.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="javascript/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <h1>ROGER BALLEN</h1> Rooke Gallery represents Ballen's exclusive vintage works stretching back to 1968 and his contemporary bodies of work from Dorps (1986), Platteland (1994), Outland (2001), Shadow Chamber (2005) and Boarding House (2009). <br><br> <a href="art/ballen/vintage/Roger Ballen-Roly-Poly.jpg" class="lightwindow_iframe_link" params="lightwindow_width=805,lightwindow_height=590,lightwindow_type=external"><img src="art/ballen/vintage/tn_Roger Ballen-Roly-Poly.jpg" width="270" border="0" alt=""></a> <br> <div class="art_details"> "Roly Poly" <br> 10'' x8'' <br> 1971 <br> Silver bromide fibre print <br> Edition of 10 </div> <br><br> Known for documenting the small villages of rural South Africa, Ballen's photography moved on in the late 1980's and early 1990's to their inhabitants. His choice of subjects continuously attracts social scrutiny, and debate often rages regarding the true circumstances underlying the unnervingly real scenarios the photographs often depict. Is this fact or fiction? <br> <br> <a href="art/ballen/vintage/Woman-man-and-dog,-1995.jpg" class="lightwindow_iframe_link" params="lightwindow_width=605,lightwindow_height=605,lightwindow_type=external"><img src="art/ballen/vintage/tn_Woman-man-and-dog,-1995.jpg" width="250" height="250"></a> <br> <div class="art_details"> "Woman, man and dog" <br> 1995 <br> 40cm x 40cm <br> Silver bromide fibre print <br> Edition of 35 </div> <br><br> And all the while the average viewer misses the point entirely. From his outset in the late 1960’s, Roger Ballen’s photographs have captured moments that cannot be repeated. They find uncanny order in chaos and they revel in the pure pleasure of form. Whilst they deliver testament to the camera’s ability to freeze a fleeting moment in time, they more importantly point out the rare ability of a photographer to elevate the ordinary into extraordinary. <br><br> It is with this as a foundation that Ballen then expands and innovates into areas that blur the disparate worlds of documentation and art. <br><br> <a href="art/ballen/vintage/Sliced-2007-12cm.jpg" class="lightwindow_iframe_link" params="lightwindow_width=605,lightwindow_height=605,lightwindow_type=external"><img src="art/ballen/vintage/tn_Sliced-2007-12cm.jpg" width="250" height="250"></a> <br> <div class="art_details"> "Sliced" <br> 2007 <br> 50cm x 50cm <br> Silver bromide fibre print </div> <br><br> Widely published and collected across the globe, Roger Ballen is undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary photographers. <br><br> Click <a href="online_sales.php" target="content1" onClick="top.activate(2);top.content2.location.href='online_sales_ballen.php';">here</a> to view Roger Ballen's unseen and vintage works or <a href="mailto:inside@rookegallery.com?subject=Roger%20Ballen %20contemporary%20enquiry">here</a> to enquire about pricing and availability of his contemporary bodies of work from Dorps (1986), Platteland (1994), Outland (2001), Shadow Chamber (2005) and Boarding House (2009). <br><br> <br><br> <script type="text/javascript"> if (top.frames.length == 0) { location.replace('/artists/roger_ballen'); } </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var links = $$('.lightwindow_iframe_link'); links.each(function(link) { Event.observe(link, 'click', function() {parent.myLightWindow.activate(null, link);}, false); link.onclick = function() {return false;}; }); </script> </body> </html> </div>