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Anton Momberg
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Girl, front
and back views, cast marble dust, Anton Momberg,
670 x 300 x 100, R31
500 |
Momberg was
born in 1951, in Pietersburg,
Northern Transvaal
. He is a sculptor of portraits and figures, working in bronze, wood,
ceramics and polyester resin.
Anton Momberg has emerged as arguably
South Africa
’s finest realist in sculpture, focusing mainly on the female nude.
His finely crafted work cast in marble dust and resin has an unearthly,
unsettling quality that somehow makes a monolith of the contemporary
female form, as distinct from the “Venus” of antiquity.Momberg has
also turned his hand to other subjects he admires, notably an immaculate
full length sculptural portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, an edition of which
can be viewed at the National Gallery and at the King George VI gallery
in Port Elizabeth.
The meticulous nature of Momberg’s work and the fact that he casts
them himself means that he has at best produced one new sculpture a year
over the last ten years, a remarkable and unique commitment to quality
in an age of mass production.
STUDIES:
Port Elizabeth
Technikon, under Hillary Graham and Neil Rodger, gaining a Teacher’s
Diploma in Fine Art.
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