Strauss & co - 15 February 2020, Cape Town

9  WALTER OLTMANN SOUTH AFRICAN 1960– Pincushions in a Vase 2001-2002 wire 70 by 75 by 65cm R80 000 – 120 000 PROVENANCE Property of Kangra Group (PTY) Ltd. Assembled by the Late Graham and Rhona Beck. “My main area of creative focus is in sculpture, and more particularly in fabricating woven wire forms which sometimes reference local craft traditions [...] In my sculptures I use images of natural phenomena (human, plant and animal) and play with the idea of mutation, hybrids and reconfiguring the familiar. Through dramatically enlarging and/ or transposing features of one to the other, I play with the paradox between vulnerability and the monstrous. Using the language of craft, my artworks are always a product of labour and time.” 1 1.  https://artthrob.co.za/product/walter-oltmann- lace/ 21