why assemblage?
Someone once asked me to describe my first experience with/discovery of art. The answer explains my fascination with assemblage. The lion in the trees When I was in primary school…
Charlayn von Solms
Museum Academy Temple – the Heliconian muses
In these early iconographic substitutions, the Heliconian muses were represented as institutional forms. Museum (1996), Academy (1996-7), and Temple (1997) were the first sculptures created for the series Hermetic Heresies…
A Catalogue of Shapes – portrait of an oral-formulaic Homer
Created between 2010 and 2013, this series is a sculptural exploration of the artistry of Homeric poetry. A Catalogue of Shapes is premised on the idea that the oral-formulaic compositional…
what’s with the epithets? – valuing Classics
I often provide my assemblages with a subtitle in ancient Greek. The reason why is not what you may think. In 1990 South African conceptual artist Willem Boshoff launched a…
Odysseus ΜΗΤΙΣ – a sly guy going home
This assemblage depicts the hero whose struggle to return home (and escape obscurity) forms the central theme of the Odyssey. Odysseus ΜΗΤΙΣ (2010) was constructed from a fishing buoy, funnel,…