October ART
Timed Online Auction, 27 September - 9 October 2024
Art Club
Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
Location
Johannesburg
About this Item
South African 1951-
Bifidity
signed, dated '08 and numbered 8/30 on the underside
wood
height: 35cm; width: 25,5cm; depth: 7,5cm
Notes
The design of BIFIDITY is based on a smaller sculpture made as part of the Blind Alphabet Project in 1993. The original piece was made small enough so that it could be picked up and easily handled by a blind person.
The original work made for the Blind Alphabet Project was accompanied by a Braille plaque containing this text quote:
BIFID, BIFIDATE, BIFIDITY
Something bifid, or bifidate is cleft so that it divides into two parts, some will erroneously say, 'forked', like a bifurcated form. If, however, we study the Latin findere that gave rise to bifid, and see that it means 'cleave', then bifid assumes its rightful meaning.
- Willem Boshoff
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