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| 3 March 2002 by Andries Loots | |
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This week, an exhibition of sculpture by artist Dylan Lewis, opened at the Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town. " The Cat ", as the exhibition is titled, also includes a new range of smaller sculptures of birds. |
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" With this collection
Lewis moves deeper. Now he demands that we empathize with him
the very wilderness itself that is encapsulated in the
increasingly abstract forms of his sculpture. His chosen vehicles
for expressing the purity of a universal life force are now
fragments of beings, mere hints of the completed
animal, but these mosaics of an organism open a window into
a strata beyond the obvious and allow the artist to explore more
fundamental levels of reality." |
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Through this progression of the artist, the
modeling process has become more and more
intense and involved. Carefully inspecting a sculpture like Glossy Ibis, reveals
the artist's finger "imprint" in the original sculpture. This does not
only serve as a second 'signature' to the work but also manifests the deep
involvement of the artist, reflecting during the modeling process...
This collection of Dylan's work is currently on show at the The Clocktower Precinct, BOE Square, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town and the exhibition will run till 28 March 2002. Tel
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418 4527 |
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