Roelof louw biography of mahatma
Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges), Roelof Louw, 1967 | Tate ....
Roelof louw biography of mahatma
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Sculptor, painter, installations artist and teacher, born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at the university there, emigrated to England in 1961 and adopted British citizenship, 1967.
Worked in an architectural office in London and studied under Anthony Caro at St Martin’s School of Art, 1961–5. He taught at St Martin’s, Maidstone School of Art and Royal College of Art between 1967–71; settled in New York, 1973; was a visiting lecturer, Victoria University, British Columbia, 1976–7, and visiting artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1977–8.
Louw showed at Young Contemporaries from 1964; Kasmin Gallery, 1967; Stockwell Depot Show and Survey ’68: Abstract Sculpture, at Camden Arts Centre, both 1968; also abroad.
In a project at Art Laboratory in 1967 Louw made a pyramid of 5,800 oranges and a cone of 9½ tons of black granite chippings.
The oranges were reduced over two weeks as th