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Lot Essay
Majolandile ‘Andile’ Dyalvane is a South African ceramicist from the Eastern Cape who now works in Cape Town.
His large sculptural vessels have ‘scars’. As skin is scored so he marks his work. It is a means of identification with ancestors and of channelling their powers as guides and protectors against negative forces. This present monumental vase is punctuated with incised repeated lines and impressed with scattered letters, evoking a sense of time, movement and poetry within the work. Burnt umber and crimson stained highlights create key accents.
Dyalvane was a Taipei Artist in Residence with the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, in 2014, when this work was executed. He held a solo exhibition titled ‘Ca Magu’ at the Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, in 2016 and Christie’s previously sold a vase by him, entitled ‘Umbhaco’, in 2015.
His large sculptural vessels have ‘scars’. As skin is scored so he marks his work. It is a means of identification with ancestors and of channelling their powers as guides and protectors against negative forces. This present monumental vase is punctuated with incised repeated lines and impressed with scattered letters, evoking a sense of time, movement and poetry within the work. Burnt umber and crimson stained highlights create key accents.
Dyalvane was a Taipei Artist in Residence with the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, in 2014, when this work was executed. He held a solo exhibition titled ‘Ca Magu’ at the Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, in 2016 and Christie’s previously sold a vase by him, entitled ‘Umbhaco’, in 2015.