Notes

Accompanied by certificates of authenticity for each drawing signed by Wim Botha.

Wim Botha studied art at the University of Pretoria where his teachers included Diane Victor. Like his mentor, Botha is an accomplished draughtsman whose art synthesises classical western figuration and iconography with South African themes. This quartet of drawings was first exhibited on a solo exhibition titled All This at Michael Stevenson’s Cape Town gallery in 2011. The exhibition included meticulous natural history studies of animal skulls in pencil and more expressive drawings in charcoal of hominid skulls, trees and also of the sculptural busts that appeared in his two large-scale sculptural installations on the same exhibition. The architectonics of the human form is a point of enquiry for Botha. In 2009, also in Cape Town, he exhibited an installation titled Joburg Altarpiece (2009); it comprised eight linocuts of human skeletons, their poses based on historical paintings and sculptures.

Provenance

Michael Stevenson Fine Art, Cape Town.

Exhibited

Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, Wim Botha: All This, 20 January to 26 February 2011.