STELLA SHAWZIN | Reclining Mother and Child II
Grey Bardiglio Marble
66 x 84 x 148 cms / 26 x 33 x 58¼ inches
In richly veined Bardiglio marble, Reclining Mother & Child II conveys stillness and intimacy. Shawzin’s sensuous lines and sculptural restraint create a quiet dialogue between mass and void, evoking maternal devotion in its most essential form.
Art in the landscape teaches us to look again. It brings structure to wildness and shows us that stillness and movement are not opposites but companions. - Piet Oudolf (b. 1944)
Best known for her monumental sculptures that seem to defy gravity despite being made of bronze or marble, Stella Shawzin created a fascinating body of work that shines a light on the secrets of the human form with great detail and tenderness.
Shawzin worked on both a monumental and an intimate scale. Regardless of their size, all her sculptures are sensual expressions of the human form, a celebration of its full range of movement.
Throughout her career, Shawzin worked with a variety of media – bronze, marble, metal, wood and was intimately involved in every stage of their creative process. From her visits to the marble quarries at Carrara, to the building of her own foundry at her Cape Town studio, Stella Shawzin oversaw the execution of each artwork from conception to completion.
Shawzin passed away in 2020, at the age of one-hundred, leaving an incredible sculptural legacy as a key practitioner of South African modern art.
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