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		<title>Southern Guild and Bronze Age Studio co-curate ‘Foundry Proof’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exhibition casts a 21st-century light on the age-old material of bronze Southern Guild and Bronze Age Studio present Foundry Proof, a group show exploring the versatility of bronze in contemporary design, from 20 September until the end of 2018 at GUILD in the Silo District. “Bronze is a material to live with – tactile, warm and transformative, with the comforting knowledge that it will last generations,” says Julian McGowan, co-founder of Southern Guild. Joining Julian as co-curator of Foundry Proof are Otto du Plessis and Charles Haupt of Bronze Age Studio, in celebration of the close working relationship the gallery and studio have enjoyed over the past 10 years. Charles Haupt &#8211; Tropism Mensa Tertium III Otto, a classically trained sculptor, opened Bronze Age Foundry in Simonstown in 1997. Incorporating a gallery and artist residency, it nurtured the careers of many young bronze artists who apprenticed there. Charles joined in 2005 to help start a design studio and the pair then moved their operation to Woodstock, where the foundry and its adjoining gallery became one of the neighbourhood’s focal points of creativity. They regularly produced work by artists such as William Kentridge, David Brown, Brett Murray and Wim Botha, and [...]]]></description>
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