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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.
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