Name: 'Wim Botha Busts' (2012)
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SKU: 51756465146
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'Wim Botha Busts' (2012)From the publisher: "In 2003, Wim Botha's first solo exhibition at Stevenson, Speculum, included the paper bust Self portrait as a Common Ancestor. Text accompanying the exhibition stated: 'Botha's installations reflect on the individual's absorption into the encompassing hierarchical structures of statehood and society. By visually interfering with venerated forms of art, artefact and decoration, he offers comment on the distorted and ephemeral

Brett Murray’s ‘Again Again’ is the prolific artist’s most recent solo showing

and skateboard wheels – materials the artist often returns to

this book draws on fascinating archival material and historical press reports to explain the importance of these first 50 highly experimental years

In later life

It functions as an anchor with a very slack tether – a simple idea that allows you to move around freely

The book traces their artistic evolution from the late 1920s

These mostly served as preliminary drawings for the highly finished works

While the authors' research among the early Cape newspapers revealed for the first time a tremendous amount of information covering many aspects of Cape photography

This process of erasure was documented

and offer a glimpse into the artist's process towards their final incarnation as sculptures

Norman Bryson

leaving behind a trace of a person rather than collage with the image of a person

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