Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 10 October 2016

South African & International Art
  • Willem Boshoff; Bifidity
  • Willem Boshoff; Bifidity
  • Willem Boshoff; Bifidity
  • Willem Boshoff; Bifidity


Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 40 000

About this Item

South African 1951-
Bifidity

signed, dated '08 and numbered 10/30

wood
height: 35cm

Notes

"The design of BIFIDITY is based on a smaller sculpture made as part of the Blind Alphabet Project in 1993. The original piece was made small enough so that it could be picked up and easily handled by a blind person.

The original work made for the Blind Alphabet Project was accompanied by a Braille plaque containing this text quote:

BIFID, BIFIDATE, BIFIDITY

Something bifid, or bifidate is cleft so that it divides into two parts, some will erroneously say, 'forked', like a bifurcated form. If, however, we study the Latin findere that gave rise to bifid, and see that it means 'cleave', then bifid assumes its rightful meaning."

Willem Boshoff. (2012) Bifidity, [Online], Available: http://www.willemboshoff.com/documents/artworks/bifidity.htm [28 August 2016].

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