Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

57 EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 99 CHRISTIAAN DIEDERICKS SOUTH AFRICAN 1965– The Nascent Art of Flying signed, dated 2012, numbered 8/10, inscribed with the title in pencil and embossed with the Artist Proof Studio chop mark in the margin linocut sheet size: 109 by 194,5 cm; image size: 89,5 by 178 cm R15 000 – 20 000 Christiaan Diedericks was born in 1965 and studied Fine Arts at the University of Potchefstroom. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Pretoria. Some of Diedericks’ earlier work date from the watershed year of the first democratic elections in 1994 followed by the adoption of a new constitution in 1996. The new constitution afforded protection and freedoms for gay , bisexual and transgendered people through the prohibition of discrimination. This established a new legal and social ‘landscape’ against which Diedericks’ works have not only been created, but by which they must also be evaluated and interpreted. His work confirms him as a speculative artist-philosopher on the diverse and complex psycho-sexuality of masculinity as well global political and social issues. His prints are often intricately carved and carefully constructed images composed of a number of separate pieces that form a whole image.