Posted in News, tagged Art, Canon Collins Trust, Commonwealth Scholarship, Darwin, Johan Thom, nirox sculpture park, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, University College London, University of Pretoria on August 5, 2014|
‘For me, art is always about surplus value. In that sense it is a non-representational activity where one investigates and even creates new possibilities. So it’s about the attempt to look beyond what is already in existence. This is not about making “progress” in an old avante garde sense. Art is more about acknowledging that things are constantly changing and that we do not know what they may become or what exactly they are doing,’
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Posted in News, tagged African art, art fair, Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Contemporary South African Art, Guy du Toit, nirox sculpture park, South African art, winter sculpture fair on May 5, 2014|
Installation view of collaborative sculpture at Nirox Sculpture Park.
With Guy du Toit.
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