Uitstalling Art Gallery / KUBE Gallery presents Pendulum: An exploration of duality through portraiture by Lionel Smit by Art Daily

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Uitstalling Art Gallery / KUBE Gallery presents Pendulum: An exploration of duality through portraiture by Lionel Smit



Smit’s exhibition Pendulum is primarily comprised of a series of dialogic diptychs reminiscent of photo negatives and their printed inverse. Heavy masculine impasto brushstrokes both challenge and complement the finer feminine forms and figures displayed. The pendulum swings between these opposing forces to find its own idiosyncratic visual balance.

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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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Pendulum: a solo exhibition by Lionel Smit at Uitstalling Art Gallery / KUBE Gallery