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Group exhibition · 2020

Solace

Southern Guild · Cape Town

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Two wooden spheres and a tall pierced column within a group installation — Solace, Southern Guild, Cape Town, 2020. Group exhibition installation.

Wide gallery view with furniture and a wooden sculpture on a plinth — Solace, Southern Guild, Cape Town, 2020. Work by several participating artists.

Solace exhibition title and participating artist names on the gallery wall — Solace, Southern Guild, Cape Town, 2020. Exhibition entrance and group-show context.

Installation view of Solace at Southern Guild: sculptures and furniture by the participating artists in the gallery — Solace, Southern Guild, Cape Town, 2020. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

Wooden Cuboid 003, 2020 — a dark carved column pierced with openings, on a white plinth — Wooden Cuboid 003, 2020. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

Wooden Cuboid 004, 2020 — a tall dark carved column with a run of openings, on a white plinth — Wooden Cuboid 004, 2020. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

Wooden Cuboid 005, 2020 — a slim dark carved column, on a white plinth — Wooden Cuboid 005, 2020. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

Wooden Cuboid 009, 2020 — a tall column of flowering gum carved with wave-edged openings, on a white plinth — Wooden Cuboid 009, 2020, flowering gum, 135 × 29 × 18 cm. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

Wooden Sphere 003, 2020 — a camphor sphere carved open on one side, on a white plinth — Wooden Sphere 003, 2020, camphor, 30 × 30 × 30 cm. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

Wooden Sphere 001, 2020 — a small camphor sphere carved open to a pale interior — Wooden Sphere 001, 2020, camphor, 18 × 18 × 18 cm. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

Wooden Cuboid 008, 2020 — a flowering gum block carved with openings, lying on a white plinth — Wooden Cuboid 008, 2020, flowering gum, 30 × 80 × 30 cm. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

Wooden Sphere 004, 2020 — a charred camphor sphere carved open to a pale scooped interior — Wooden Sphere 004, 2020, camphor, 35 × 35 × 35 cm. Work in the exhibition. Photograph courtesy Southern Guild.

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Date: 2020
Location: Southern Guild · Cape Town
Format: Group exhibition

Solace brought together new work made during the pandemic restrictions of 2020. Southern Guild invited participating artists to respond to that period or develop a new direction in their practice.

Driaan Claassen’s contribution included wooden cuboid and sphere sculptures. The installation photographs show them within the wider group exhibition, alongside furniture and work by other artists. A selection of his exhibited sculptures is linked below.

Southern Guild exhibition record

Works in the exhibition

Selected works from the exhibition.

Pray for strength — wood sculpture by Driaan Claassen, Neural Pathway collection, 2020

Pray for strength

Look inside — wood sculpture by Driaan Claassen, Neural Pathway collection, 2020

Look inside

You complete me — wood sculpture by Driaan Claassen, Neural Pathway collection, 2020

You complete me

Trust me — wood sculpture by Driaan Claassen, Neural Pathway collection, 2020

Trust me

It starts here — wood sculpture by Driaan Claassen, Neural Pathway collection, 2015

It starts here