Good Debuts Are Always Hard Acts to Follow

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Exhibition: ZANDER BLOM at Whatiftheworld until June 27. MELVYN MINNAAR reviews.

FOR AN artist in the fits of twenty-something - which allows and probably eggs on freewheeling invention - Blom has won a quick following the past year or two.

His energetic explorations have caught gallery dwellers' eyes like the guy does who wears a truly funky suit to a have-to-be-at disco party. Which means to say, they themselves experience a surge in feeling good - and clever for being there.

But it is never easy to follow up on a good debut.

This new show by Blom is chirpy enough, but in our contemporary era of instant hits (or misses), some of his fans may …