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3 March 2002 by Andries Loots

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.

Tiger  Fragment I,  edition /8

" 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."  Mark Read - Director EVERARD READ GALLERY

Details below the wing of Glossy Ibis I
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 :  ( 021 )  418 4527
 e-mail :
ctgallery@everard.co.za


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