Sydney based gallery .M Contemporary presents the solo exhibition Collide by  Lionel Smit

Written By Lionel Smit

This collection of Lionel Smit's paintings and bronze sculpture is on exhibition from 20 October - 5 November 2022.

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With Collide, celebrated South African portrait artist, Lionel Smit, continues to colligate his mastery of baroque and neoclassical techniques, artfully juxtaposing them with bolder expressionistic elements. This powerful portrait series is a direct evolution of Smit’s metaphysical explorations of opposing centrifugal and centripetal forces that coexist in art and nature.

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.M Contemporary
Michelle Paterson
gallery@mcontemp.com
+61 0415 692 294

Lionel Smit

Lionel Smit is an international award-winning artist. One of South Africa’s most commercially successful multimedia artists, this prolific visionary is best known for his intriguing monumental portraits of women. The portraits capture visages in various cryptic guises and are executed on large-scale canvases and through bronze sculptures.

He established the Lionel Smit Studio as both a working and exhibition space in his hometown of Somerset West near Cape Town. Here he pursues his craft in all manner of media with areas dedicated to sculpture, painting, and printmaking.

https://www.lionelsmit.com
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