Adriaan Diedericks

Adriaan Hermanus Diedericks (born 1 November 1990, Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African artist. He is known. for his contemporary bronze sculptures.

Career

After graduating with a fine arts degree from Stellenbosch University in 2012, he apprenticed with Lionel Smit from 2013-2014. Diedericks was a SASOL New Signatures Finalist in 2010 and 2014 and a PPC YCSA Finalist in 2013. In 2014, Diedericks was invited to take part in Art Fair Strasbourg and Cologne.

He has been featured in numerous publications including SA Art Times, Top Billing, Effe O' Arte, Visi, Die Burger, Country Life, Ubi Bene and SLOW Magazine.

Diedericks opened a bronze casting foundry in 2016 in Strand, South Africa.

In 2017, Diedericks attended the 4th International Artist Symposium along with 9 other artists from around the world at Museum Villa Böhm in Germany where he worked with sandstone for the first time.

Diedericks placed large public sculptures in Stellenbosch, Hermanus, Franschhoek and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Style

Diedericks' work reflects the sculptural forms of Ancient Greece, with contemporary refinement. Drawing on Classical, African and European mythology, Diedericks incorporates imagery of men, horses and ships. Many of his works are inspired by Michel Foucault's Theory of Power and the dialectic of Hegel's master and servant.

Selected exhibitions

2018

• Cape Town Art Fair, L99P Gallery, Cape Town

2017

• Perceptive Resonance, Solo Exhibition, Art in the Yard Gallery
• Christened Ships, L99p Gallery. Cape Town.
• Cape Town Art Fair, L99P Gallery, Cape Town

2016

• Travelling Body, Solo Exhibition, Rust and Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
• Turbine Art Fair, Lizamore & Associates

2015

• Seraph, Solo Exhibition, Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town
• Binne Buiteland. Gallery on Leviseur, Bloemfontein
• As is, so was, Solo Exhibition, Grande Provence, Franschhoek

2014

• ST-ART, Strasbourg Art Fair, L'Art Industriel, Strasbourg
• Art Cologne, L'Art Industriel, Cologne

Selected collections

• Ellerman Contemporary
• Quoin Rock Wine Estate
• Cavalli Wine & Stud Estate
• Holbar AG Liechtenstein
• PPC Private Collection
• Modern Art Projects Collection, Richmond
• Association of Arts Pretoria
• MXIT Private Collection
• Bartinney Wine Estate