Sculpture on the Cliffs is now complete

Writer & Photographer: Hedda Mittner.

With the last two sculptures now installed, Hermanus FynArts hosted the final opening and an informative walkabout of the Pioneer Freight Sculpture on the Cliffs exhibition on Saturday morning. Almost all the participating artists were present and could add their own voices to the walkabout, which was conducted by the curator, Gavin Younge.

For her sculpture, The Hunt, which has been widely misunderstood, Nanette Ranger drew on the legend of Artemis and Actaeon. “There was no need for her to be persecuted on Facebook,” said Gavin.

Jean Theron Louw’s sculpture at Gearing’s Point, entitled The View, is a delightful addition to this exhibition, which elicits much interest and is widely commented on every year. The life-sized sculpture of stainless steel, mild steel and resin features two baboons on a life-boat – apathetic Jane #I’m Staying and frantic Julius #I’m Outa Here. Jane reclines, pondering the fuss and Julius is frantic, staring through a telescope. Both baboons are wearing orange life-jackets and are in perfect balance, but if one should make the wrong move, the boat would tip over.

Right Mukore in front of his carved camphor wood sculpture, Watch Dog, which refers to the empathetic relationship between nature and humanity, and the way in which the sounds and movements of birds especially alert us to the time of day and what is about to happen next.

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