Size: 400mm x 200mm

Medium: Etching and aquatint on 300 gsm Hahnemühle etching paper

Edition: 5/20

"In my work, time and space appear to dissolve, and an air of conflict erupts. This is often a direct result of a personal aim to calm and disturb at the same time - drawing parallels between the two extremes of utopia and dystopia".

Christiaan Diedericks is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning visual artist and printmaker from South Africa. A Fine Arts Cum Laude graduate of the North West University, he also holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Pretoria. Diedericks has participated in over 50 international art residencies and more than 30 biennales. His art addresses social, political, and economic injustices, appealing to a global collector base. His work features in prestigious collections, including MOMA and the Cité Internationale des Arts.

Diedericks has exhibited extensively throughout Southern Africa, as well as in the USA, Japan, Germany, England and Sweden. In 2006, he was the winner of the Kanna Award for Fine Arts at the ABSA KKNK festival in Oudtshoorn for his exhibition "Secrets and Lies: Her Majesty's Ivory Tower." He worked as an artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris on multiple occasions. After receiving the prestigious Ampersand Foundation Fellowship, he worked in New York, where his work was exhibited at the gallery 5+5 in Brooklyn to critical acclaim in 2007.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Auctioneer: The Grove Schoombee Foundation NPC

Contact No: 0827706506

Email: [email protected]