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IS Art proudly presents an exhibition of new work by the impactful artists, Etienne de Kock and Sharlé Matthews. Fine Art & Sculpture for discerning collectors, exhibiting renowned SA Artists. Fine Art & Sculpture for discerning collectors, exhibiting renowned artists. Ed Young was born in 1978 in Welkom, South Africa and currently lives and works in Cape Town. He holds a Masters of Fine Art Degree from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, at the University of Cape Town. In 2016, he took part in the American tour of the mobile exhibition, Nothing as Refusal, with the NO SHOW MUSEUM. Ed Young was an invited artist to present a site-specific installation as one of eight special projects for The ARMORY Show’s 2016 invitational Focus: African Perspectives section, curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba of Contemporary And (C&). Past reflections and future visions for role of national gallery in SA. Lewis Carroll’s portraits of the real Alice in Wonderland to go on show in London. The show brings together the works by contemporary South African artists which combine visual tension and a strong conceptual vigour, whilst reverberating closely with the ideas and sentiments as expressed through this iconic song. These artists engage the viewer in the often intimate movement and destruction of human life and, at the same time, the persistence of the delicate, humorous, lyrical, or divine. The sequences of narrative information and visual effect evoke the fragile endurance of the sacred and the spiritual. INNOVATIVE methods, strong intellectual content and guttural undercurrents, these works by Lars Fischerdick are likely to ignite conversation around such a unique aesthetic. Having turned to art full-time rather late, his architectural background has certainly come in handy. It allows for an understanding of materials and for powerful craftsmanship. Yet, rather than be dictated by utilitarian and functional interests as is unavoidable in the applied arts such as architecture, here there are excursions and flights of the imagination that touch on metaphysics, mathematics, physics and even history and politics. In conversation with the artist, such dimensions become apparent. His method relies on the combination of geometric structure, limited colour range as well as an investigation of the surface materiality through interventions such as hacking and finely cutting into wood and various other carefully chosen formats. He uses resin, perspex and the subtle nuances between grades and shades of black or white, the various subtleties of the wood surface. His style thus is both two dimensional and painterly as well as three dimensional and sculptural. For this show, although he simply described it to me at this point, he also ventures into installation art and by what was so described it is sure to create a moving experience for the gallery-goer. Of great interest was his understanding and use of projective geometry, a non-Euclidian geometry that hints at the infinite. In fact, he likens the German experience to South Africa where he has resided for the past 15 years. The levelling of the Berlin wall and the dismantling of Apartheid happened around similar times. Yet it is abstract, so the interpretation around history is simply encoded, hidden behind the more metaphysical speculations and scientific experimentation.