Adriaan Diedericks

Adriaan Hermanus Diedericks (born 1 November 1990, Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African artist. He is known. for his contemporary bronze sculptures.^[1][2]

Career

After graduating with a fine arts degree from Stellenbosch University in 2012, he apprenticed with Lionel Smit from 2013 to 2014.^[1][3] Diedericks was a SASOL New Signatures Finalist in 2010 and 2014^[4] and a PPC YCSA Finalist in 2013.^[3][5] In 2014, Diedericks was invited to take part in Art Fair Strasbourg and Cologne.^[6][7]

He has been featured in numerous publications including SA Art Times,^[8] Top Billing,^[9] Effe O' Arte,^[3] Visi,^[10] Die Burger,^[11] Country Life,^[12] Ubi Bene^[13] and SLOW Magazine.^[14]

Diedericks opened a bronze casting foundry in 2016 in Strand, South Africa.^[15]

In 2017, Diedericks attended the 4th International Artist Symposium along with 9 other artists from around the world at Museum Villa Böhm in Germany where he worked with sandstone for the first time.^[2][13]

Diedericks placed large public sculptures in Stellenbosch,^[10][16] Hermanus,^[12] Franschhoek and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.^[17]

Style

Diedericks' work reflects the sculptural forms of Ancient Greece, with contemporary refinement.^[18] Drawing on Classical, African and European mythology, Diedericks incorporates imagery of men, horses and ships. Many of his works are inspired by Michel Foucault's Theory of Power^[19] and the dialectic of Hegel's master and servant.^[3]

Selected exhibitions

2018

• Cape Town Art Fair, L99P Gallery, Cape Town^[20]

2017

• Perceptive Resonance, Solo Exhibition, Art in the Yard Gallery^[2]
• Christened Ships, L99p Gallery. Cape Town.^[8]
• Cape Town Art Fair, L99P Gallery, Cape Town^[21]

2016

• Travelling Body, Solo Exhibition, Rust and Vrede Gallery, Cape Town^[22]
• Turbine Art Fair, Lizamore & Associates^[23]

2015

• Seraph, Solo Exhibition, Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town^[24]
• Binne Buiteland. Gallery on Leviseur, Bloemfontein^[25]
• As is, so was, Solo Exhibition, Grande Provence, Franschhoek^[26]

2014

• ST-ART, Strasbourg Art Fair, L'Art Industriel, Strasbourg^[6]
• Art Cologne, L'Art Industriel, Cologne

Selected collections

• Ellerman Contemporary
• Quoin Rock Wine Estate
• Cavalli Wine & Stud Estate
• Holbar AG Liechtenstein
• PPC Private Collection
• Modern Art Projects Collection, Richmond
• Association of Arts Pretoria
• MXIT Private Collection
• Bartinney Wine Estate

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