Tactility: denial and desire
11 November - 9 December 2009
Tactility: denial and desire is an exhibition made up predominantly of bronze sculpture by Cobus Haupt, with painting by Thomasin Dewhurst.
Cobus Haupt works figuratively in bronze, his primary concern being ample tactility in his work, through which he maintains and amplifies the delicate balance between the real and the symbolic in a tradition of production that has stood the test of time.
Thomasin Dewhurst focuses on theatrical figures - imagined characters in a performance that is intimate, confidential, exposed, with the audience’s response being one of wanting to possess the unpossessible. Similarly to Haupt, Dewhurst also advocates the great importance of traditional media such as painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture as contemporary art forms.
