R1,200.00
To Sharpen Our Senses and Soften Our Touch offers an immersive exploration of the work of South African artist Chris Soal. Known for transforming discarded and ordinary materials such as toothpicks, bottle caps, concrete and industrial objects into intricate sculptural forms, Soal challenges familiar ideas of value, nature and materiality.
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Description
Through his use of discarded and mundane ephemera, such as toothpicks and bottle caps, along with concrete, rebar, electric fencing cable, sandpaper and other industrial materials, artist Chris Soal intuitively develops the familiar to the point of the uncanny. Soal’s works can be considered social abstractions influenced by a reinterpreted Arte Povera that is deeply rooted in and reflective of his upbringing in Johannesburg, South Africa. Working symbiotically with his materials, Soal utilises the inherent physical characteristics of the objects to transform them through processes of aggregation, combination and erosion.
