Beetles+Huxley opens exhibition of works by Nico Krijno
(Artdaily.org)

Nico Krijno grew up in the small town of Somerset East in South Africa, nestled at the foot of the Boschberg Mountains. He attended art school in Pretoria before moving to Cape Town aged nineteen. He has described his home country as ‘magical’, stating ‘South Africa, as a site of creativity, brings a unique surface, texture and frequency, and a specific raw and violent beauty, to the production of aesthetic images.’ The undulating and oscillating colourful surfaces of Krijno’s photographs seem to spill directly from the unique energy of their creator’s homeland. With his sights originally set on film directing, Krijno studied film making during his first years in Cape Town. His complimentary photographic practice absorbed the intuitive and exploratory methods he honed as a filmmaker. His works primarily deal with process and the relationship between photography and performance. His time spent working in the film and theatre industries gave him a physical u