Wildlands Conservation Trust Art Sale

Live Auction, 27 March 2014

Wildlands Conservation Trust Art Sale

Sold for

ZAR 55 000
Lot 35
  • Angus Taylor; Oom Paul en die Minotaur


Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 80 000
Selling Price
ZAR 55 000

About this Item

South African 1970-
Oom Paul en die Minotaur
2005

signed with the artist's initials and stamped 'AP'

bronze with a verdigris patina and steel
90 by 69 by 26cm

Notes

Angus Taylor is known in South Africa and abroad for his powerful, often large, works of sculpture characterised by outstanding craftsmanship. Taylor is a graduate of the university of Pretoria which bestowed an Alumni Laureate on him in 2005.

During his time as a student, Taylor took on the not insurmountable task of running a bronze foundry in Pretoria. This hands-on experience has in many ways been instrumental in his fearless approach in choosing materials and his status as a master craftsman. Taylor makes constant use of this knowledge as a means to empower himself in his use of traditional sculpture materials like granite or bronze. Text is imprinted onto the surface of bronzes, while granite works embrace the inherent block-like natural form, thus alluding to but not wholly representational of the human form.

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