
Online exhibition
Adriaan Diedericks
Allegorical Elegies
ALLEGORICAL ELEGIES
The Uitstalling is excited to showcase an online exhibition from an international reknown artist. This South African sculptor mimics, as it were, the vast landscape of his youth. This can be clearly seen in the way in which his working method continuously develops into a unique three-dimensionality. Using sculptures, he manipulates these messages with, among other things, found wood and plastic that ends up in amazing bronze works of art.
Adriaan Diedericks explores the human body as a vessel where power, glory and inevitable humiliation are being transformed to key concepts in his work, a thought that connects his reflections on masculinity and heraldic history.






ADRIAAN DIEDERICKS
Adriaan Diedericks is a South African sculptor based in Strand, Cape Town. After graduating with a BA degree in Fine Arts from Stellenbosch University in 2012, he completed an apprenticeship with Lionel Smit from 2013 until 2014.
Diedericks was a SASOL New Signatures Finalist in 2010 and again in 2014. He also participated and became a Finalist in PPC YCSA in 2013. His work features in prominent art collections such as Quoin Rock Wine Estate, Cavalli Wine & Stud Farm, Bartinney Wine Estate and NAC VIP Lounge, Lanseria Airport as well as other private collections around the world such as USA, UK, Switzerland, Sweden, Germa- ny, Australia and South Africa. Diedericks has placed public sculptures in Hermanus, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch (South Africa), Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) and Sainte Radegonde (France).
In 2014 Diedericks was invited to take part at Art Fair Strasbourg and Cologne. In 2017 he attended the 4th International Artist Symposium along with 9 other individuals at Museum Villa Böhm in Germany where he was given the opportunity to work with sandstone for the first time. He has been featured in various media publications such as Effe O’ Arte in Milan, Top Billing and Visi’s ‘Artists to watch’ among others.
Diedericks presented his 7th solo exhibition, Continuum, in 2019. He continues to support several charities on a regular basis such as Art Angels, MAD Charity and IRIS House Children’s Hospice.
CONTINUUM I
Year: 2018
Bronze on Granite base
Edition of 12
430 x 110 x 110 mm
SERAPH V
Year: 2018
Bronze
Edition of 1 (Variable)
440 x 660 x 510 mm
BURDEN III
Year: 2017
Bronze on Granite base
Edition of 12
420 x 240 x 200 mm
UNTITLED (FLOTSAM)
Year: 2018
Bronze on Granite
Edition of 8
620 x 210 x 210 mm
TORSO I (Half Lifesize)
Year: 2018
Bronze on copper base
Edition of 8
790 x 570 x 300 mm
CONTINUUM II
Year: 2018
Bronze on Granite base
Edition of 12
430 x 110 x 110 mm
BURDEN (Maquette)
Year: 2015
Bronze on Stainless steel
Edition of 15
400 x 160 x 130mm
AFTER RODIN
Year: 2015
Bronze on Granite
Edition of 12
150 x 200 x 210 mm
TRUNCATED IV
Year: 2017
Bronze on Granite
Edition of 12
340 x 200 x 120mm
CONTEMPLATION (Maquette)
Year: 2018
Bronze on Granite
Edition of 15
300 x 110 x 120 mm
CONTINUUM V
Year: 2019
Bronze on Granite Base
Edition of 12
430 x 120 x 110 mm
OBLIVION I (Maquette)
Year: 2017
Bronze on Granite base
Edition of 12
530 x 300 x 230 mm
TRUNCATED II
Year: 2015
Bronze on Steel
Edition of 12
340 x 120 x 80 mm
FICTION BUILD
Year: 2015
Bronze
Edition of 12
160 x 200 x 310 mm
BURDENED MAN II (Maquette)
Year: 2017
Bronze on Granite base
Edition of 12
150 x 280 x 115 mm
TRAVELLING BODY II
Year: 2015
Bronze
Edition of 12
308 x 430 x 170 mm
SERAPH IV
Year: 2015
Bronze on Crystal
Edition of 15
270 x 190 x 190 mm
ADAMASTOR (Maquette)
Year: 2014
Bronze on Granite
Edition of 12
430 x 280 x 220 mm
ABSORPTION
Year: 2017
Bronze on Granite base
Edition of 12
900 x 500 x 400 mm
LINEATION BUST III (mounted)
Year: 2017
Bronze on Steel base
Edition of 12
400 x 150 x 180 mm
FIG.
Year: 2015
Bronze on Crystal base
Edition of 12
270 x 190 x 190 mm
EXHALE III
Year: 2016
Bronze
Edition of 12
900 x 870 x 410mm
3-4 HORSE
Year: 2014
Bronze
Edition of 24
160 x 80 x 150 mm mm
INNATE II
Year: 2014
Bronze / Resin
Edition of 12
500 x 200 x 100
RECLINING FIGURE II
Year: 2017
Bronze
Edition of 12
380 x 110 x 120 mm
ECHO BUST
Year: 2016
Bronze
Edition of 12
350 x 330 x 200 mm
CONTEMPLATION
Year: 2017
Bronze on Granite base
Edition of 12
1100 x 800 x 800 mm

Allegorical Elegies
Allegorical Elegies


Adriaan Diedericks 'Relinquished Pilgrimage'

Adriaan Diedericks 'De-trunk'
