Ad-Reflex's work seeks to open a space where painting is no longer confined to static surfaces, and digital technologies are not reduced to tools of reproduction. Instead, both become sites of active inquiry - where illusion is constructed and undone, and where play generates new forms of seeing, thinking, and experiencing images in an ever increasing mediated world.
Award-winning art duo, AD-Reflex, formed in 2015 and consists of contemporary South African artists Johan Conradie and Karl Gustav Sevenster.
Johan Conradie obtained a MA(Visual Arts) degree, from the University of Pretoria in 2006. He has lectured at numerous academic institutions including the University of South Africa and the University of Pretoria. Johan was a finalist in two of South Africa’s most prestigious art competitions, including the ABSA Atelier (1999, 2000, 2006, 2008) and Sasol New Signatures (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001). Apart from exhibiting his own work locally and internationally, he has also curated a number of exhibitions and received public commissions including paintings commissioned by Media Tenor International and Bonn, Germany.
During May, 2013 he participated in a South African group exhibition in Paris, France at the highly esteemed Orangerie Exhibition Centre of the French Senate. He was awarded the prestigious residency at the Cité des Arts, Paris during August-September, 2014
Karl Gustav Sevenster is a self-taught digital artist, living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained a BA (Social Sciences) degree from the University of the Freestate in 1986 and worked most of his early years as a computer programmer and specialist. In 1999 KarlGustav decided to dedicate to a full time art practice. Through the use of of digital technology (software, graphic tablet, infrared pen) he creates original digital artworks, transferred onto a variety of media (Perspex, Archival paper, and C-print DIASEC facemount. Karl has exhibited his work at the Dubai Creek Art Fair 2008, River Art Fair 2013 (Miami during the Art Basel Week), Art Monaco 2014 (Monte Carlo) as well as various local exhibitions in Johannesburg and Cape Town between 2003 and 2022.