Wire Chandelier

CCAC #: 0569b
Artwork title: Wire Chandelier
Artist(s): Lindelani Ngwenya
Year made: 2006
Artwork type: Sculpture or object
Medium: Wire
Dimensions (mm): 7000 x 410
Artwork series: Court Chandeliers
Artwork multipart work: Chandeliers: Verandah
Source: Commissioned by the Architectural Artworks Committee as part of the building’s construction open competition
Year acquired: 2006
Installation type: Integrated artwork
Current location: In storage
Signage:

Suspended beneath the concrete entablature outside the Court’s west entrance façade, this woven light sculpture is part of a pair of works measuring approximately 4.5 metres in length. Developed in collaboration with the architects and completed in the artist’s studio, it translates traditional weaving techniques into large-scale sculptural form using copper and aluminium.


CCAC 440032

Photographer: Ben Law-Viljoen
Photo copyright: CCT

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