Name: Obscura Revision Series #1
Brand: Lionel Smit
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Obscura Revision Series #1

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Limited edition large print in shades of grey, black and sepia with hand application of charcoal and paint on surface of print. Lionel Smit is an artist born in the era of South Africa’s Apartheid movement and is one of South Africa’s most noteworthy young artists. His work manifests his on-going fascination and respect for the indigenous peoples of his country, notably the Cape Malayan peoples. Both his paintings on linen and his sculptures, done in bronze or in painted resin, offer us an entry point into the variety and richness that lies beneath every face – a task Smit undertakes with great sensitivity. Luscious, bold surfaces are expressed both in his paintings and in the spontaneous gestures rendered in his three dimensional figural forms. These free, unfettered marks animate the beauty and grace of the faces he sees in the neighborhoods around his studio. The scale of his work invokes both a sense of celebration, and of power. My fascination with portraiture and the abstraction of color plays a dualistic role in my artistic expression and creation. The combination of the representation of human form, and the mercurial quality of emotions, translated by color, line and form, is what inspires the imaginative and abstract essence of the work. -- Lionel Smit Lionel Smit’s process is adaptive, inventive, and physically engagied. He paints abstract canvases and lets them sit around the studio, ideas gestating, until he is ready to project photographs of the model on them, in a mode that recalls Andy Warhol’s aproach to portraiture. But Smit does not work with reproductive processes…, instead relying on his hand to transcribe form, and frequently reworking images multiple times, such that color and line merge, breaking down both…His bronzes made in the traditional lost wax process, are treated as fragmented surfaces subject to polychromatic surface experimentation inside and out. -- Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History, Marymount Manhattan College, New York

Creator:
Lionel Smit (South African)
Creation Year:
2016
Dimensions:
Height: 57.48 in (146 cm)Width: 44.1 in (112.02 cm)Depth: 0.07 in (1.78 mm)
Medium:
Screen
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Edition 5 of 6 with hand application of charcoal and paint by Lionel Smit.
Gallery Location:
North Adams, NH
Reference Number:
Seller: 00027741stDibs: LU3661142113

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