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born 1942 South Africa
Pitika Ntuli (born February 18, 1942) is a South African sculptor, poet, writer, and academic.
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It's the biggest poetry thing in western Europe.
I believe that art is about the interconnectedness, the interrelationship and the interdependency of each and everything.
By subjecting an object and using it for what it is not meant to be used stretches people’s imagination.
You go into an art gallery and see a lot of laziness – work that doesn’t seem to express anything spiritual, political or social.
I didn't particularly want to be discovered as an artist.
Both of these use deeper images that carry symbolism.
I choose my material depending on what I’m feeling at a particular time and what I want to do.
I go to museums and galleries but nothing hits me in my stomach.
No one notices who you are, you leave no footprints. You are wanted and unwanted, always in between, feeling you are losing your identity.
I started as a traditional healer, and that led me to art.
Working with stone requires you to become a geologist. There are so many aspects to it - an artist is not just a dreamer.
When you see art as it happens in South Africa, it is kind of shallow and just an idea to shock rather than to leave traces of meaning that people can take with them.
My poetry is layered and can be interpreted in many ways, which is what I did in my old sculptures, too. The poetic elements in sculpture are particularly important to me.
I saw the branches and shouted ‘Viva,’ then my uncle said, ‘it looks like the tree has spoken to you.
I needed to make an impact, not only in South Africa but also to myself, to take stock of who I am, where I’ve been, what I’ve achieved and what I still dreamed I could.
We are partners. Bones, like wood, have definite forms to work with. I do not oppose their internal and external directions, I externalise their inherent shapes to capture the beauty and the truth embedded in them, in other words, I empower the bones to attain their own ideal.
I am an African reborn To reclaim the memories of our forebears As we chart new journeys, New beginnings in our land As we heal the past and renew the future.