LIONEL SMIT | Prelude
LIONEL SMIT, Counterpoise
Bronze, 81 x 35 x 30 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Expectancy
Oil on linen, 140 x 170 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Amalgamate
Bronze on Oak, 36 x 48 x 30 cm
Best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures. Lionel Smit presents new bronze busts of female muses in coppery and pale green patinas as well as the torso of a female figure, the fissures in her body evoking cracked earth.
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LIONEL SMIT, Unforeseen
Bronze, 56 x 45 x 27 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Adaptive Application #2
Bronze, 49 x 29 x 20 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Adaptive Application #3
Bronze, 44 x 28 x 20 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Mortal Form
Bronze, 62 x 46 x 26 cm
LIONEL SMIT, Surge
Bronze, 135 x 70 x 50 cm
Acclaimed South African artist, Lionel Smit is best known for his contemporary portraiture executed through monumental canvases and sculptures. Now 40, Smit has been sculpting since he was a child, spending his days in and around his sculptor father’s studio.
Smit’s sculptures are often highly textured like this one, entitled Surge, where the hand - and tools - of the artist are clearly evident in the finished bronze.
Smit is both a painter and sculptor and has explored on canvas, paper and here in clay a version of the Janus head but Smit instead creates a double portrait, one face looking skywards and the other looking towards the earth. A simple yet powerful metaphor for life.
Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.