Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 80 114 BEVAN DE WET SOUTH AFRICAN 1985– Homo Connochaetes Taurinus signed, dated 2012, numbered W/P and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin linocut sheet size: 197 by 97,5 cm; image size: 179 by 85 cm R15 000 – 20 000 Bevan de Wet was born in 1985 and studied Fine Art at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. Since 2011, he has worked at Artist Proof Studio in Newtown as a professional printmaker, print technician and academic facilitator. As a print technician in the pro-shop he has collaborated with various artists including; Gerhard Marx, Walter Oltmann and William Kentridge. de Wet has exhibited extensively both locally and internationally, exploring various forms of printmaking primarily on paper. de Wet describes his creative practice as an exploration of ‘symbolic, cultural and anthropological readings of the body.’ This is rendered in beautifully layered assemblages of patterns, subliminal fragmented objects, and hybrid animal/ human figures. de Wet won the 2014 Absa Atelier merit award residency to the island of Sylte in Germany.