Wim Botha
Apocalumbilicus, 2006
linocut on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper
218 x 102 x 5 cm (including frame)
sheet size: 197.4 x 80.5 cm
sheet size: 197.4 x 80.5 cm
edition of 12
signed and inscribed 'Proof' in pencil
R 180,000.00
'...Wim Botha's work is informed by an ancient Roman sculpture with a pagan theme. His recent life-size linoprint titled APOCALUMBILICUS was first exhibited in January this year [2007] at Michael...
"...Wim Botha's work is informed by an ancient Roman sculpture with a pagan theme. His recent life-size linoprint titled APOCALUMBILICUS was first exhibited in January this year [2007] at Michael Stevenson in Cape Town. The linoprint depicts an adult and baby skeleton in a ravaged landscape, their pose derived from a sculpture of the mythological figure Silenus tenderly cradling the baby Bacchus. The original marble sculpture is in the collection of the Vatican Museum in Rome, where Botha documented it in 2000."
Warren Siebrits, in Family Relation, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary [Cat. no. 24, June 2007]
Literature
Siebrits, W. (2007). Family Relations. Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary. Illustrated in colour, unpaginated.
