DIDRICHSEN ART MUSEUM
Lionel Smit
by Maria Didrichsen, January 2017
His monumental paintings and sculptures glow with color. His distinctive use of color is comparable to classical representational painting, and the expression in his sculptures is encapsulated in fragments.
In his art, Smit studies the identity of South Africa’s continuously changing population. Its formation and preservation in a multi-cultural society and a globalized world is a major challenge. He is fascinated by what defines and characterizes individuals and groups, their origins and transformation. These are manifested most strongly in human faces, the artist’s most prominent subject.
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