Former Wits Bachelor of Fine Arts student Olivia Pintér will have her solo exhibition, Notes in Flight, proudly presented by David Krut Projects. Her new, unique works, on paper and paintings, will be displayed by at the gallery in Parkwood.

Notes in Flight is said to explore how Pintér captures, as data points, affective gestures, translating them into visual marks that carry emotional resonance. These works bring the often-unseen presence of the artist into focus, holding fleeting gestures, tactile traces, and memory within each image. They invite viewers into an intimate dialogue between hand, material, and movement.

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The layered works, on paper, arise from the collaboration with Roxy Kaczmarek, long term collaborator at the David Krut Workshop in Maboneng. From Pintér’s daily commute to the workshop, the sensory and linguistic textures of Johannesburg – its smog, dust, light, and layered urban landscape, subtly filter into her paintings, informing their visual and emotional language.

In these works, she explores how to articulate sensations that are felt but not fully understood. Abstract painting becomes a way to ‘language’ affective gestures: Subtle movements or encounters that linger. These impulses, whether sparked by colour, mood, or texture, accumulate into layered compositions, each work holding multiple moments and memories.

Materiality is equally vital to Pintér’s practice. She treats paint and surface as repositories of information, layering or obscuring these traces so that meaning emerges through abstraction.

Notes in Flight reveals how Pintér channels the abstract shapes of her impulses into the making process – allowing them to guide, resist, and inform each other. Her work does not offer a narrative, but a sensory and emotional entry point into her ongoing conversation with gesture, place, and material.

Exhibition: Notes in Flight
Date: August 30 to October 4
Venue: David Krut Gallery, 151 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood.

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