Painting Sculpture
A Dialogue Between Material and Form
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19–27 FEBRUARY 2025
PAINTING SCULPTURE
19–27 February 2025
Cape Town, South Africa
The exhibition PAINTING SCULPTURE brings together four distinct artists—Michal Korycki, Stuart Dods, Uche Obasi, and Rodan Kane Hart—each of whom engages with material, structure, and spatial composition in uniquely compelling ways. Through a convergence of painting and sculpture, the exhibition highlights the interplay between traditional and unconventional techniques, exploring themes of identity, construction, and transformation.
19–27 February 2025
Cape Town, South Africa
The exhibition PAINTING SCULPTURE brings together four distinct artists—Michal Korycki, Stuart Dods, Uche Obasi, and Rodan Kane Hart—each of whom engages with material, structure, and spatial composition in uniquely compelling ways. Through a convergence of painting and sculpture, the exhibition highlights the interplay between traditional and unconventional techniques, exploring themes of identity, construction, and transformation.
Rodan Kane Hart — The Illusionistic Reflection —
South African-born sculptor Rodan Kane Hart (b. 1988) has long explored themes of urbanism, architecture, and structural deconstruction. His earlier works engaged with geometric steel forms and sculptural interventions, interrogating the ideological frameworks of built environments. Over time, his practice has evolved towards a more fluid and illusionistic approach to material, culminating in this latest body of work.
Hart manipulates stainless steel on mild steel, transforming a traditionally rigid medium into a visually dynamic, reflective surface that absorbs and distorts its surroundings. What appears fluid and weightless is, in fact, industrial and dense, creating a tension between materiality and perception. These works act as both mirrors and sculptural objects, shifting with light and movement, dissolving into their environment while maintaining a distinct, tactile presence.
This new direction in Hart’s practice extends his engagement with spatial perception, using steel not just as structure, but as a surface of illusion, depth, and interaction.
View Works by Rodan
Hart manipulates stainless steel on mild steel, transforming a traditionally rigid medium into a visually dynamic, reflective surface that absorbs and distorts its surroundings. What appears fluid and weightless is, in fact, industrial and dense, creating a tension between materiality and perception. These works act as both mirrors and sculptural objects, shifting with light and movement, dissolving into their environment while maintaining a distinct, tactile presence.
This new direction in Hart’s practice extends his engagement with spatial perception, using steel not just as structure, but as a surface of illusion, depth, and interaction.
View Works by Rodan
Michal Korycki — Architecture in Flux —
Polish-born South African sculptor Michal Korycki constructs work that
exists at the intersection of architecture
and instinct. His sculptures, forged from raw clay, reflect the tension
between structure and imperfection, where each piece balances on the edge of
collapse and control. His practice, influenced by his architectural background,
embraces the material’s malleability and its ability to self-correct through
fire, revealing a process-driven
engagement with space, texture, and form.
Korycki’s latest works extend his continued exploration of structural integrity, vulnerability, and spatial negotiation. Drawing from the aesthetic of unfinished buildings, exposed frameworks, and the rawness of industrial construction, his sculptures reflect both the physical and conceptual weight of their making. Each form carries traces of its own evolution, responding to material forces while engaging in a dialogue with the built environment.
View Works by Michal
Korycki’s latest works extend his continued exploration of structural integrity, vulnerability, and spatial negotiation. Drawing from the aesthetic of unfinished buildings, exposed frameworks, and the rawness of industrial construction, his sculptures reflect both the physical and conceptual weight of their making. Each form carries traces of its own evolution, responding to material forces while engaging in a dialogue with the built environment.
View Works by Michal
Stuart Dods — The Fragility of Structure —
South African artist Stuart Dods explores the
precariousness of construction, where paintings and sculptures exist in a
state of potential collapse. Raised in Hermanus, Dods was influenced by the
industrial landscape—construction sites,
machinery, and building materials—which continue to shape his visual
language. His paintings depict structures that appear improvised, held together by makeshift means, teetering on the edge of
failure, while his industrial-inspired pipe sculptures, made from reclaimed
shutter boards used in concrete casting, reinforce these themes.
His palette, rooted in earthy tones and muted industrial colors, reflects both his environment and a conceptual engagement with labor and materiality. His practice moves fluidly between painting and sculpture, each informing the other, creating a visual language that is at once architectural and intuitive. Through abstraction and material exploration, Dods captures the tension between construction and deconstruction, resilience and fragility.
View Works by Stuart
His palette, rooted in earthy tones and muted industrial colors, reflects both his environment and a conceptual engagement with labor and materiality. His practice moves fluidly between painting and sculpture, each informing the other, creating a visual language that is at once architectural and intuitive. Through abstraction and material exploration, Dods captures the tension between construction and deconstruction, resilience and fragility.
View Works by Stuart
Uche Obasi — Stitching Identity Through Mixed Media —
Uche Obasi is a Nigerian visual artist whose practice engages with the fluidity of identity, memory, and cultural storytelling. Born in Abakaliki and based in Lagos, Obasi employs an innovative mixed-media approach, integrating shoelace appliqué and stitchwork into painting to create textured, layered surfaces. His work explores themes of identity as a process of stitching, remaking, and reconstructing, where personal and collective narratives intersect.
Through intricate weaving and collage, Obasi challenges traditional notions of painting, expanding its surface beyond pigment to incorporate tactile elements that mirror the complexities of identity formation. His compositions reflect the interplay between modernity and tradition, addressing the tensions between the past and the present, the personal and the collective.
This body of work draws inspiration from domestic interiors, familiar objects, and the fluid constructs of belonging. By blending acrylic paint with stitched materials, Obasi creates works that reveal identity as layered, ever-evolving, and shaped by cultural and environmental forces. His process invites viewers to engage with the physicality of the materials, experiencing the depth and richness of stitched narratives.
Obasi has exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at Wunika Mukan Gallery, Lagos (2024), and participated in group exhibitions such as Blurring the Line (FOURTH Gallery, Cape Town, 2024) and Black History Month Campaign (Wunika Mukan Gallery, 2025). His work continues to push the boundaries of painting and textile, forging new ways of visualizing cultural memory and personal identity.
View Works by Uche
Through intricate weaving and collage, Obasi challenges traditional notions of painting, expanding its surface beyond pigment to incorporate tactile elements that mirror the complexities of identity formation. His compositions reflect the interplay between modernity and tradition, addressing the tensions between the past and the present, the personal and the collective.
This body of work draws inspiration from domestic interiors, familiar objects, and the fluid constructs of belonging. By blending acrylic paint with stitched materials, Obasi creates works that reveal identity as layered, ever-evolving, and shaped by cultural and environmental forces. His process invites viewers to engage with the physicality of the materials, experiencing the depth and richness of stitched narratives.
Obasi has exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at Wunika Mukan Gallery, Lagos (2024), and participated in group exhibitions such as Blurring the Line (FOURTH Gallery, Cape Town, 2024) and Black History Month Campaign (Wunika Mukan Gallery, 2025). His work continues to push the boundaries of painting and textile, forging new ways of visualizing cultural memory and personal identity.
View Works by Uche
Material, Movement, and Meaning
Painting & Sculpture offers a multidimensional conversation between material and form, where each artist investigates the boundaries of their medium. While Korycki and Dods engage with industrial and architectural references, Obasi and Hart push the surface of painting and sculpture into new realms of texture and reflection. Together, their works form a dynamic interplay of construction and collapse, identity and abstraction, structure and impermanence.
The exhibition invites audiences to consider how painting and sculpture intersect, evolve, and challenge traditional definitions, offering a nuanced perspective on contemporary material-based practices.
Painting & Sculpture offers a multidimensional conversation between material and form, where each artist investigates the boundaries of their medium. While Korycki and Dods engage with industrial and architectural references, Obasi and Hart push the surface of painting and sculpture into new realms of texture and reflection. Together, their works form a dynamic interplay of construction and collapse, identity and abstraction, structure and impermanence.
The exhibition invites audiences to consider how painting and sculpture intersect, evolve, and challenge traditional definitions, offering a nuanced perspective on contemporary material-based practices.