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Martin Disler.

Martin Disler (1954) is an artist and sculptor born in Cape Town,

South Africa. His formative years were in Zimbabwe (then,
Rhodesia), and later he would become a Student of architec-
ture at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Martin culminated his

learnings at the prestigious AA (Architectural Association) in
London.

His entry into art and sculpting symbolises a distillation of the
exceedingly dissolving boundaries between categorisations of

design, art and architecture; herewith broadening the scope
and space in which artists can gain their education, and

refrain from being bound by a single medium or discipline.

Martin’s work investigates dichotomies of the intangible and

tangible, the physical and digital - creating sculptural figures
that envision futurist themes challenging the fears around

humanity’s synthesis with technology and proposes a new and
sacred landscape in which this synthesis might be both des-
tined and symbiotic.

Martin’s sculpting process utilises his hand, with subsequent

bronze casting allowing his work to reference a temporal span
of some 35 000 years of artistic expression on the planet, and
tie deeply into his thematic concerns of human

civilization, transitions and technology. It is within the signifi-
cance of both Martin’s process and subsequent bodies of work

that his intuitive and profound practice
can be understood.