10 Kloof Street, Cape Town 

Editor: Right now we’re looking at Stanley Pinker’s “10 Kloof Street, Cape Town”, a vibrant painting, that uses acrylics to show a cityscape of geometric forms in the Cubist style. It almost feels like a dreamscape of urban life. What do you see in this piece? Curator: Ah, Stanley Pinker! He always injects this wonderful sense of whimsy and intrigue into his scenes. For me, this is South Africa distilled: vivid colours under bright sunshine. It's a fragmented world, like shattered glass reassembled, maybe representing the complexities of urban life, don’t you think? What about that playful tower; does that strike a chord with you? Editor: Definitely, that tower piece adds a unique twist; I hadn't thought of shattered glass, I'm glad you pointed it out, it reminds me to keep my own perspective flexible. With the various geometrical shapes of the houses in blue, red and even the yellow, where does that play in art history, where are its contemporaries? Curator: Good question. We might drop some notes on Braque and Picasso, also maybe Mondrian with their fractured perspective but always infused with his own unique energy. I guess it invites the viewer to wander and assemble the narrative for themselves. The symbolism too: that ladder, a clown figure, is that some reference for escaping the mundane? What's your take? Editor: That is interesting. It does add to this strange, unidentifiable, symbolic narrative he seems to craft in his paintings! I guess I need to dig deeper into Cubism; thanks, I hadn’t connected some dots before. Curator: Exactly, sometimes art nudges us into unexplored corners of thought, or reveals bits that might have gone unnoticed previously; that's a win-win in my books!