Notes

In the present lot Andile Dyalvane seeks to transport you through the echoing passages of a moving, breathing, rhythmic earth.

As a young boy, Dyalvane found his heart’s song playing and moulding clay oxen along and within the corridors of ‘Bizani’(meaning - Who/What are you calling?) a name attributed to an area where hills met at a murky river carving through the valley - the call of one’s voice. Reverberating off the walls of eroded clay dongas (crevices) and paths collapsed from the wedging of cattle hooves that drummed across time - between Ngobozana and eNdlovini villages in the Eastern Cape. Dyalvane began to recognise the elation induced from singing to the earth, clay at his fingertips.

It whips the imagination into dancing with ideas of one’s own memories of feeling the earth under bare feet, inspecting the power and resilience of roots, trees and the many intricate biospheres of a spinning, shifting, curving, tearing, crashing, rising and falling clay dermis – in a constant vortex of cyclical regeneration from within. Every detail pulls you into the phenomenal tension of time layered dimensions.

Dyalvane dances with swift, pulsating intention when creating these impressed footprints of motion, in his Cape Town studio.

The proceeds of the present lot will go toward supporting the artist’s former school in his home village in Qobo Qobo in the Eastern Cape, Ngobozana Primary School.

Exhibited

GFI (Gutsche Family Investments), GFI Ceramic Fair, 4 April – 5 May 2019, Port Elizabeth.