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Untitled (Head)
Artist: Louis Olivier
Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2018
SAFFCA would like to thank Laura Vincenti, Tumi Tlhoaele, Sophie Lalonde ,Tumelo Mosaka, Molemo Moiloa and the entire team of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2018. It was a true privilege for us to be present at the Fair with the SAFFCA booth and to be able to welcome some of you at Gerhard Marx’s studio for […]
Fingerprint in Motion, Pigeon 5
Foundry’s Louis Olivier has left his prints on Kentridge sculptures
Years from now, people will study this sculpture and see this other thumb print on it and find it belongs to Louis Olivier, says the artist holding a small William Kentridge sculpture in his hands. Olivier’s fingerprint might not be traceable on every Kentridge bronze-cast work, but hundreds, if not thousands, of them have passed […]
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Deep seated
Meteor Pattern
Louis Olivier: Interpreter of the formless and invisible
In Critical Mass, Olivier works in various media such as sculpture, drawing and installations. Using cardboard to sculpt with, Olivier intuitively creates forms and figures. He sees his position as an artist as that of a dragoman, an interpreter of the formless and the invisible, facilitating communication between the soul and matter. It is […]
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Louis Olivier
2 Grahamstown Steet Marshalltown +27 72 816 7904 louis@workhorsebronzefoundry.co.za Louis Olivier, b. 1976 EDUCATION 1999 Bachelors of Commerce, Information Technology, University of Pretoria EXPERIENCE AND COLLABORATION 2014 Collaboration with William Kentridge on Roman and Polychromed Head Sculpture series 2013 Collaboration with William Kentridge on Rebus Sculpture series 2012 – 2014 Founder and Director at Workhorse […]
‘Fleeting Figure’
‘Bird’
