Exhibition

Sculpture Exhibition 2015

8 Oct 2015 – 31 Oct 2015

Regular hours

Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Monday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00

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Internationally acclaimed sculptor Pablo Atchugarry’s (born 1954 Uruguay) works form part of many major collections, both public and private. He has held more than 100 solo and collective exhibitions worldwide. His statue Seed of Hope stands in the garden of the Uruguayan parliament, whilst in the city of Lecco (Italy) he has his own museum. His work is based on the principal that the natural beauty of marble is enhanced if the form remains simple. Atchugarry’s simplicity consists of variations on linearity - while avoiding straight lines. The volumes do not have any sharp sides, corners become inclinations, grooves become pleats.

He spends the majority of his year in Lecco, Italy, where he works primarily in Cararra marble and Portuguese pink marble.

Rado Kirov was born in Bulgaria in 1955. He developed an interest in metal art at an early age when he was first exposed to the wonder of the Panagyursko Treasure, an exquisitely hand crafted collection of golden artefacts dating back to the 3rd century BC.

Rado began an extensive apprenticeship in copper smithing at the age of 25 in the town of Dobrich Bulgaria under the tutelage of Alexander Raev, one of the greatest craftsmen in Bulgaria at the time. He honed his artistic skills with copper over the next 10 years until immigrating with his family to South Africa in 1991. Rado continues to be a member of the Bulgarian Association of Craftsmen – Section: Copper Smithing.

Rado’s passion and skill in copper, shifted to silver and gold during his years of employment with the Pagliari Group in Cape Town. During this time, Rado had the privilege of hand crafting numerous prestigious pieces, including a silver Chalice presented to the late Pope John Paul II by former President Nelson Mandela on behalf of the South African Government in 1998, a silver Rose Bowl presented as a wedding gift to the Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife by the SA Government, and the Alfred Dunhill Challenge Cup Trophy for golf. Rado was also responsible for the creative design and fabrication of unique collectors’ coins in 1000g pure silver and 1000g 24 carat gold. 

The subject of landscape is central to the art of Lee Jaehyo. It is the life-blood of his art and it courses through all the animate objects that he creates. The man-made nails that he drives into calcified wood, on the contrary, exhibit his concern for death and destruction. The two sides of his nature represented in a living, breathing wood fashioned into ergonomic forms, and blackened, cosmic shapes onto which silvery patterns and meanings are articulated in silvery spikes, are given equal prominence in this exhibition.
 

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Pablo Atchugarry, Rado Kirov, Lee Jaehyo

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