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Adrian Fortuin
b. 1994

Adrian Fortuin is a Johannesburg-based artist whose work explores the relationship between figuration and abstraction in the context of post-apartheid and post/de-colonial South Africa. Working in a range of media, the scope of which is primarily informed by a conceptual approach, Fortuin is interested in the limits of representation and how personal identity is connected to family, language, ancestry, community, and society more broadly. He draws on personal, public and popular image archives to investigate the role art can play in restitution memorialising, and narrative-making.

Fortuin graduated from the Wits School of Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in 2020, and was the recipient of the Wits Young Artist Award and the Martienssen Prize in 2019. He is currently enrolled in the MA Fine Arts programme at Wits University in Johannesburg, where his practice has shifted from a performative and lens-based approach to a transmedia engagement with painting, drawing and printmaking.

In 2021 Adrian was invited to make a series of monotypes with edition ~ verso. Adrian returned again in 2023 to make a new body of work in etching. 

AUTOXYLOPYROCYCLOBOROS, 2023
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Fabriano Bianco 285gsm
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Ask The Dust, 2023
Etching
Fabriano Bianco 285gsm
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Edition of 6

The Fire In The Wake Next Time, 2023
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Fabriano Bianco 285gsm
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Edition of 6






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