Notes

Johannesburg-born, Natal University-educated (MAFA, 1995) and Cape Town-based, Paul Edmunds is a print-maker and sculptor. He is represented in public and corporate collections across South Africa, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and has exhibited equally widely. His work is generally non-representational and explores a number of media.

The two deliberately imperfect overlapping circles in this large linocut, called Solid, questions its own title and the nature of solid mass. At the point of their intersection the discs, or at least one, become transparent. However, the oval shape of their overlap is darker than the rest, because the directional hatched lines of the two shapes are overlaid by a third hatch. Confusingly, this point of transparency is the one which most closely approximates a sense of the solid. Scrutiny of the image and working through these relations gives one a sense of the process of making, and of its contemplative properties. The artist’s prowess is evident in the fineness of the white parts which were skillfully excised from the block.

Provenance

Donated by the artist