On exhibition: Small is powerful in Wim Botha’s hands

18 October 2016 - 11:02
By Sean O'Toole

At the centre of Wim Botha's astonishing new solo exhibition, on at Stevenson in Cape Town, is a jumble of everyday materials describing what looks like a messy tragedy. Botha has carved pieces of a winged animal out of red wax and impaled them on lengths of raw pine or rested them on panes of glass covered with transparent adhesive film that obliquely mirror the rest of his exhibition.

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