Event
London Art Week
30 Jun 2017 – 07 Jul 2017
London Art Week
London, United Kingdom
Hylton Nel at Eighty presents a collection of works that celebrate the artists' 80th birthday year, as well as marking the artist's relationship with The Fine Art Society, spanning a quarter of a century.
The Fine Art Society in London is delighted to present Hylton Nel at Eighty, an exhibition of hand-built ceramics by the South African artist who has exhibited with the gallery since 1996. This exhibition, including plates, vases, bowls, as well as Hylton’s famous figurines, seeks to reflect the breadth of his creative practice and to celebrate the artists’ twenty-five-year relationship with the gallery during his 80th birthday year.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is a selection of cats and figurines that have been made especially for this exhibition. These brightly decorated sculptural works are reminiscent of English pottery of Staffordshire and Wedgwood, as well as European maiolica, and Delftware.
Accompanying these figurines are newly made vases, bowls and plates. These ceramics are satirical, witty and tactile, and are at once decorative and utilitarian: objects to be handled and used, as much as they are to be admired.
For the past five decades, Nel has developed a rich visual language filled with references to decorative arts from across the world; literary and art historical sources; objects and images collected from popular media collected whilst living between Europe and South Africa.
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