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2019 - Blow Your Sculpture

2019 – Blow Your Sculpture

Glass has enabled so many milestones in history, from the telescope to microscope, high-speed communications and that smartphone in your hand. Yet, only very few contemporary artists utilise it’s potential in their creative narratives.

Blow Your Sculpture’sis an initiative to break the proverbial mould, to introduce glass, it’s malleability and endless possibilities to a new crowd of creatives.…

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Blow Your Sculpture 2019 opened on 13 March at the Pretoria Art Museum, almost a year after launching at Smelt Glass Studio.

Twelve artists took part in this third iteration of a collaborative project with the aim to promote glass as an expressive medium within the South African art milieu. Blow Your Sculpture also strives to grow our local hand-made glass industry.

This year’s artists are: Guy du Toit Peter du Toit Richard John Forbes Caitlin Grenberg Maxi Pretorius Martli Jansen van Rensburg Charl Enslin Ian Redelinghuys AnZu Wicks Gordon Froud Mike Hyam and Lothar Böttcher (Instigator & Curator)

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Ian Redelinghuys

Gordon Froud

Lothar Böttcher

AnZu Wicks

Caitlin Greenberg

Peter du Toit

Charl Enslin

Mike Hyam

Guy du Toit

Maxi Pretorius

Martli Jansen van Rensburg

Richard John Forbes

The opening night exceeded all expectations with tons of guests arriving to experience and delight in the multitude of works on display. The Art Museum was a hive with people from all over buzzing in conversations, mingling and taking photos with their favourite pieces.

Such a phenomenal turnout surely is a sign of BYS’s success in promoting creative glass. Each artist had their own approach on how they interpreted this limitless and versatile material. Their narratives ranged from heads to illumination, glass carpentry to mixed media installations and much much more.

Blow Your Sculpture is the brainchild of Lothar Böttcher who launched the first event during the Pretoria CoolCapital biennale in 2014. This first collaboration was exhibited at Modern Art Projects and is now in their permanent collection in Graskop.

In 2016 BYS took place again with the added parameter to ad light with, upon or onto the sculptures. The exhibition was staged in two parts – the first was hosted in the open air at the Pretoria Botanical Gardens for two nights whereafter all the works were installed at the Pretoria Art Museum.

Now, after an absolutely successful launch, the exhibition will be catalogued and used for promotion. BYS is looking for sponsorship to grow the concept and allow students and other artists, who don’t have the financial means, to participate.

Blow Your Sculpture is growing and there is already talk of the next collaboration – possibly in 2021…?

For more info click on the link above to our Face Book page or email blowyoursculpture@gmail.com

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