A look back at Lionel Smit’s previous exhibition Exposure, showcased at Everard Read CIRCA Cape Town earlier this year

Written By Lionel Smit

Click to watch the video of Exposure by Lionel Smit at Everard Read CIRCA Cape Town

Celebrating 10 years with Everard Read, Lionel Smit’s latest body of work demonstrates how forms of revelation and systems of exposure bear on the life and the world of the artist.

Cape Town-based Everard Read CIRCA gallery, showcases a new collection of work by local artist, Lionel Smit. Smit’s exhibition reveals a deep understanding of image creation as a technological enterprise. With the camera serving as a point of connection, Smit asks what we expose to the lens and, by implication, to a larger public audience.

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Everard Read CIRCA Gallery
V&A Waterfront, Ulundi House
Portswood Road, Cape Town

Lionel Smit

Lionel Smit is an international award-winning artist. One of South Africa’s most commercially successful multimedia artists, this prolific visionary is best known for his intriguing monumental portraits of women. The portraits capture visages in various cryptic guises and are executed on large-scale canvases and through bronze sculptures.

He established the Lionel Smit Studio as both a working and exhibition space in his hometown of Somerset West near Cape Town. Here he pursues his craft in all manner of media with areas dedicated to sculpture, painting, and printmaking.

https://www.lionelsmit.com
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