The Niche — 20-09-2022
Path
Dovetail Magazine is thrilled to share PATH, the first group feature on The Niche since its relaunch in 2022. Fifteen artists from around the world who work in a variety of media explore perceptions of the space between Point A and Point B—and beyond. They examine how we move, how the ground meets our feet, how the environment changes, how we change as we move, and how we navigate our inner paths.
artthrob.co.za — Misha Krynauw — 14-02-2020
Undoing of Form
Stepping into the space of Givan Lötz’s ‘Unearthly’, the first thought that comes to mind is the definition of form; “a particular way in which a thing exists or appears”. It is a perfect departure from which to journey into Lötz’s latest offering. Conceptually, Lötz dedicated himself to the undoing of shape, form and it’s boding precedent; freeing himself and the audience of AVA Gallery of the consequences of the familiar. An unbridled imagination from an artist of many means sees a collection of sculptures and paintings that coax the audience to discover for themselves the emancipation from deemed design…
R&F Paints — 16-09-2021
Artist Spotlight
Givan Lötz is a South African artist whose work references places of emotional resonance as a search for enchantment in natural terrain. His work manipulates the capacity for paint to render organic forms and natural cycles of growth and decay. Givan has recently exhibited at the Association For Visual Arts in Cape town, South Africa, and Hazard Contemporary in Johannesburg, South Africa. Givan attended the 2018 spring session at RESIDENCY 108 in Germantown, New York and soon discovered R&F Handmade Paints.
wantedonline.co.za — Gary Cotterell — 10-02-2020
New Medium Waxed
Musician and visual artist Givan Lötz is described by his music publisher as “a shape shifter, an aural savant whose sound projects operate exterior to expectations”. The same can be said of his ability with fine art materials, be they digital or his newly established relationship with encaustic wax, while creating atmospheric, otherworldly abstract “mind” landscapes in which to escape. Gary Cotterell chatted to him at the opening of his show at the Association for Visual Arts Gallery (AVA) in Cape Town…
residency108.org — 2018
Residency 108
The month long May residency was the perfect time to feel a New York spring rise from the end of molting winter. I came to Residency 108 with the express purpose of reading and listening to the landscape to make paintings and mono-print drawings informed by the charged natural surrounds, continuing a refinement of a visual shorthand that echoes my internal logic. This process relies on a reverence for tacit knowledge, a tactile intuition, learning through obsessive making before thinking.
Sean O’Toole — 24-01-2020
The Whole and the Part
The whole and the part, the square and its untidy edge. An intrigued encounter with Givan Lötz’s encaustic paintings.
ava.co.za — 2020
Interview at AVA
While studying design it became increasingly apparent that the design system of working—reacting to a visual communication problem—would not completely satisfy my own curiosity about the world. I have an innate need for creating and making proactively. So ever since my tertiary education, I’ve been actively working towards blurring the lines where now my practice has become almost traditional, at least in medium.