Andile Dyalvane is one of South Africa’s master ceramic artists, hand-coiling monumental forms, predominantly from terracotta. He was born in 1978 near Qobo-Qobo in the Eastern Cape and spent his childhood embedded in traditional rural Xhosa lifeways, developing an intimate relationship with umhlaba (the land, clay, mother earth). His work is bovine, horned, dreamed, sometimes red-breasted and lilac-winged, sometimes lacerated with tectonic fissures, sometimes armed with careful geometries. When talking about his work, Dyalvanes describes clay as “a tool to communicate and connect; to communicate who [he is], and who we are, and what we have been through and what we are capable of doing. That is what it means to be human.”
Featuring texts by Olivia Barrell and Alexis Dyalvane.
Published by Almas Art Foundation, 184 pgs, 27 x 22 cm, Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-7394063-7-0
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