Contemporary Art

Live Auction, 16 February 2019

Contemporary Auction
  • Rodan Kane Hart; 1st Steel Pavilion Roofs 1 and 2
  • Rodan Kane Hart; 1st Steel Pavilion Roofs 1 and 2


Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 90 000

About this Item

South Africa 1988-
1st Steel Pavilion Roofs 1 and 2
2012
painted mild steel
280 by 140cm excluding frame

Notes

Rodan Kane-Hart principally works as a sculptor. Using photography and drawing, he records visual patterns in the urban fabric of Johannesburg and Cape Town, which he later translates in his studio into small-scale models and/or larger sculptural forms for exhibition. Hart’s method as a sculptor is essentially iterative: new works will often recycle ideas and forms from earlier works, creating a tight loop of influence. This work originates from his final undergraduate year at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2011 and is a companion to his steelframed outdoor installation, Pavilion Dedicated to Context (2011). At the time Hart was interested in urban spatial perception. He conceived this lot, a set of freestanding sculptures based on sections and distortions of the Cartesian city grid, as a means to ‘activate and demarcate space’. The desired outcome is that the viewer will become ‘more aware of themselves in relation to the space around them’.1

Sean O’Toole

  1. Rodan Kane-Hart. (2012) First Steel Pavilion: Roofs, self-published exhibition foldout. Unpaginated.

Exhibited

Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, A Mid-Year Reflection, 6 June 2011.

Literature

Rodan Kane-Hart. (2012) First Steel Pavilion: Roofs, self-published exhibition foldout. Illustrated in black and white.

Rodan Kane-Hart. (2017) At Work, Cape Town: Bad Paper. Illustrated in colour on page 90.

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