The artwork of Janis Nedela on show here is accessible and enjoyable for anyone of any age.  Taking the medium itself and presenting its different dimensions in a variety of arrangements is the essence of this exhibition.  Nedela illustrates the multitudinous capacities of pencils and crayons when applied to canvas or board yet enigmatically alters the sate of the literal.

Nedela utilizes every fragment of the pencil and crayon that has been shaved, grated, split and cut, and applies them in a seemingly arbitrary yet sophisticated arrangement that alludes to childlike playfulness. The colour and form of these artworks portray dimensionally beyond object-hood asserting post-modern art theory itself.

Nedela re-dimensionalizes the material, he transform qualities of colour and texture from elemental components of the media to making them the art object. This is asserted by the titles of the artworks which read like the descriptions of the medium:  For example, catalogue #37 is titled Grated Crayons (Crayola, Leviathon marking crayons) on canvas (12 colours) Faber-Castell Smart Crayons (12 colours) Shavings, oil on canvas.

The textural quality of Nedela's works is highly notable. He uses a blanket of pencil shavings as a relief for superimposed broken ribs and splinters studded onto the surface and edges of white canvas blocks. He takes the thin cylinders of coloured lead and arranges them in rows, uses split pencils to form layers and layers of jagged splinters, and grates crayons to encrust surfaces with solid density blocks of primary colour. Most striking is catalogue #14 where a board measuring 120 x 200 cm is injected with pencil lengths that must be viewed from every angle to observe the strobe-like rhythms and illusions of shadow and depth.

As the second in a series of three entitled Enigma: A suite of Variations, this exhibition anticipates more fresh possibilities with artist's materials spread across the walls with equal innovation.  This is a must see exhibition.