Candice Berman Gallery

02/06/2026

Candice Berman Gallery presents FOR THE LOVE OF CORRUGATED IRON by Mark Hilltout, open for First Thursdays!

4 June
17:00-21:00
223 Jan Smuts Creative Hub.

Photo installation images taken by Sylvie van Lerberghe

28/05/2026

FOR THE LOVE OF CORRUGATED IRON by Mark Hilltout

“I bang it flat” said Mark, matter-of-factly. “Once you’ve taken out the corrugations and returned it to its original state, it becomes manageable. It becomes an endlessly different, gloriously imperfect canvas”. It was precisely this unpredictability that kept the artist’s eye enthralled and the viewers’ eye transfixed.

27/05/2026

FOR THE LOVE OF CORRUGATED IRON by Mark Hilltout now on show at 223 Jan Smuts Creative Hub.

It has long been observed that the human eye recoils from absolute flawlessness because it offers no point of connection. By contrast, we embrace imperfection and transience. We find beauty in things that are imperfect and decayed, in blemishes that only time can create. 

Mark Hilltout was always drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinated him. He was attracted to the broken edge not the perfectly straight line. He saw beauty where others saw ugliness. For 12 years he looked intently at something that most of us try to ignore. Corrugated iron. (The word comes from the Latin ‘Ruga’ meaning to wrinkle or crease). To the conventional eye, this is a poor man’s shelter to be used only in the absence of alternatives, a reminder of global inequality. Yet almost 2 centuries after its invention, it remains indispensable.

23/05/2026

21/05/2026

“Celebrating youth has always played a central role in my art, as well as in my teachings… I’m just telling stories. It’s a daily life experience.” - John Vusi Mfupi

Candice Berman Gallery at RMB Latitudes 2026
22 – 24 May 2026
Centre Court, Booth B2

20/05/2026

“I am interested in expressing a visual language made up of abstract elements and principles that converse with each other, but do not construct a narrative through symbolism or analogy. It is a language of primary, bold, colourful, layered and dense imagery assembled on the canvas without prior negotiation. The composition evolves as each part is painted. The painting becomes itself.” - Maja Maljević

Candice Berman Gallery at RMB Latitudes 2026
22 – 24 May 2026
Centre Court, Booth B2

19/05/2026

“My driving force is the desire to transform internal experience into something visible, felt, and beautiful - to give form to emotional
memory and reclaim my voice through process, gesture, and material. I create large-scale paintings and sculpted paint forms that carry presence, vulnerability, and strength.” - Claire Lichtenstein

Candice Berman Gallery at RMB Latitudes 2026
22 – 24 May 2026
Centre Court, Booth B2

19/05/2026

“My work is process of form reaching towards beauty, whether it being design, sculpture, architectural or functional. My design philosophy is simple, form follows function, using only the essential lines to define the object, It’s about how form presents itself, the message it conveys and the feeling that it calls forth.” - Mark Swart

Candice Berman Gallery at RMB Latitudes 2026
22 – 24 May 2026
Centre Court, Booth B2

18/05/2026

“Painting is really a practice of focusing intentions moment to moment and that is really what life is about.” - Solomon Omogboye

Candice Berman Gallery at RMB Latitudes 2026
22 – 24 May 2026
Centre Court, Booth B2