Today is the last day to see ‘Landscape Would Be The Wrong Word’ at the Everard Read, Johannesburg.
A huge thank you to everyone at @everard_read_johannesburg that has made this show such a beautiful experience, particularly curator @_nkuli_ 🙏.
Thank you also to @everard_read_cape_town_ for the continued support.
Huge thanks to @sivanzeffertt for your hard work and care, could not have done it without you.
Could also not have done it without the help and support of great friends @nicbladen@brettmurrayza@rupert_green_ .
And always my daughters and @majamarx ❤️.
Espalier, 2025, bronze, 110 x 100 x 3cm, photo/s Mike Hall
Gerhard Marx in Unwanted Online | Landscape Would Be the Wrong Word
Everard Read Johannesburg
18 September – 1 November 2025
“Mapping with a different mindset”
We’re proud to share Wanted Online’s feature on Gerhard Marx’s latest exhibition, “Landscape Would Be The Wrong Word”, now showing at Everard Read Johannesburg.
In this extraordinary body of work, Marx uses vegetal matter and sculptural form to question the boundaries between nature, material, and art.
His practice explores how place is constructed and perceived, offering an intricate meditation on landscape, time, and the poetic logic of the natural world.
Read the full article on Wanted Online.
This Saturday, 1 November 2025, marks the final day to view.
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Thank you Chris Thurman, for this review of ‘Landscape Would be the Wrong Word’ in the Business Day today.
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‘Landscape Would be The Wrong Word’ is on view until Nov 1 at Everard Read, Johannesburg.
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Gerhard Marx | Landscape Would Be the Wrong Word
Everard Read Johannesburg
18 September – 1 November 2025
“I think of each of these works as an attempt at creating place,” notes Marx.
He builds each drawing slowly, branch by branch and root by root, so that the image seems to grow through grafting. It becomes a singular organism that coheres across its assembled parts. As Nelson Goodman observes, ‘much of world-making consists of taking apart and putting back together’. Marx constructs the image in this way, bit by bit, as re-arrangement and re-membering, a putting back together, differently.
Marx explains: “The plant material resists my will; it is unruly. It creates a mark that carries its own storied materiality. The resultant drawing is a highly mediated object, a dialogue between me and the plant material.”
On view until 1 November 2025.
Installation Images, credit: Graham De Lacy
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Gerhard Marx | Landscape Would Be the Wrong Word
Everard Read Johannesburg
18 September – 1 November 2025
“When I am constructing these works, I am working in the space between the physical, tactile world and how that physicality is lost to language, how it disappears into the familiar. In response, I think of each of these works as an attempt at creating place. Not landscape, that would be the wrong word.”
Marx’s works are not a representation of an “over there.” They are not a “somewhere” he can survey, name, or claim to know. They are not an elsewhere from which he can extract. Instead, each work involves subtle (re)activations of an intimate space between the viewer and the object, and between the body and its physical surroundings. The use and manipulation of perspective, together with a sense of touch, implicates and interweaves the object with the viewer’s body. Place, in this sense, implies an intimate subjectivity, a merging of interiority with what lies outside, with the physical world. It is an animist sense of space, an embeddedness, an inhabitation.
View these exceptional works in person until 1 November 2025.
Installation Images, credit: Graham De Lacy
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Thank you for the review Currency News.
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Gerhard Marx | Landscape Would Be the Wrong Word
Everard Read Johannesburg
18 September – 1 November 2025
“The artworks imply spaces that are not there, they conjure one place within another. They suggest spaces that contradict and dialogue with the space around them. They bring fragments of the exterior world into the intimacy of each artwork, weaving between a sense of looking and a sense of touch.
These recent works consider practices in which the world is rethought, reconsidered, and remade through the act of drawing and representation; the sketch, the model, the floor plan and blueprint, the garden layout and modernist diagrammatic strategies affect that which it describes, by describing it differently, by describing what it might become.”
Working within this logic of “describing differently”, Marx pursues alternative approaches to the tradition of depicting landscape. Through varied spatial imaginaries, landscape is conceived as dimensional, layered, dense, immersive and enveloping. It is not a distant backdrop but aligns with Emanuele Coccia’s idea of a “sensitive space”, a conception of space that extends the body by making the world sense-able.
On view until 1 November 2025.
Images, credit: Mike Hall
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Gerhard Marx | Landscape Would Be the Wrong Word
Everard Read Johannesburg
18 September – 1 November 2025
“When I draw with plants, I am drawing the world with the world. It is a turning; a moment in which the world folds in on itself to look at itself. It is literally a ‘landscape drawing’, but without the distance implied by that tradition. It is a type of landscape drawing drawn from within. Drawn with the landscape.”
Marx explains that his artworks imply spaces that are not there; they conjure one place within another. They suggest spaces that contradict and dialogue with the space around them. They bring fragments of the exterior world into the intimacy of each artwork, weaving between a sense of looking and a sense of touch. It is not a representation of an “over there”. It is not a “somewhere” which he can survey, name, or claim to know. It is not an elsewhere from which he can extract. Instead, each of these works involves subtle (re)activations of an intimate space between the viewer and the object, the body and how it relates to its physical surroundings. The use and manipulation of perspective, together with a sense of touch, implicate and interweave the object with the body of the viewer.
Thank you to all who joined us for the opening. We invite you to view these incredible works in person. On view until 1 November 2025.
Images, credit: @noastudiosa
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