PRESS RELEASE
DYLAN LEWIS: Recent Leopard Maquettes
Mar 5 – Mar 25, 2023
Everard Read is proud to present an exhibition of new bronze cat maquettes by acclaimed South African artist, Dylan Lewis.
The exhibition will be held at our gallery in Franschhoek, 20 Huguenot Road, Franschhoek. Editions will be available for viewing by appointment in Cape Town.
Please join us in Franschhoek at 11am on Saturday the 4th of March to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
With this new collection, Lewis returns to the subject that has long entranced collectors of figurative bronzes. The artist’s cats, from his first bronzes in the early 1990s, have interrogated the essence of this most graceful of all terrestrial creatures. His sculptures of leopards, tigers, cheetahs, lions and domestic cats are informed by an ancient lineage honed through millennia of inexorable environmental change. Structure and an economy of lithe movement camouflage an ability to focus awesome explosive energy. Such is the nature of the animal that has obsessed this very rare sculptor from his formative years. This exhibition of bronze maquettes reminds us all that Dylan Lewis is the most profound animalier of his time.
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