{"id":65158,"date":"2021-03-08T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wevux.com\/?p=65158"},"modified":"2021-03-04T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T11:12:25","slug":"ithongo-seating-collection-andile-dyalvane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wevux.com\/ithongo-seating-collection-andile-dyalvane0065158\/","title":{"rendered":"ITHONGO SEATING COLLECTION, Andile Dyalvane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dyalvane was born in 1978 in Ngobozana, a small village in South Africa. His work with clay or \u201cumhlaba\u201d (mother earth) reinforces an innate human bond with the soil, a connection that Dyalvane discovered while learning to farm as a child. In 1999 he received a National Degree in Art and Design from Sivuyile Technical College and in 2003 a National Degree in Ceramic Design from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. After graduation, Dyalvane founded Imiso Ceramics in 2006, a company that produces decorative ceramic objects. One of the artist’s latest projects is the sculptural iThongo seating collection, crafted from hand-coiled clay and inspired by the Xhosa language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ceramic <\/a><\/em>collection consists of 18 stools and chairs with each piece representing one of over 200 symbols that Dyalvane has created. Each symbol stands for an important word in the language spoken by the Xhosa people in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, where the artist was born. The name of the collection means ancestral dreamscape, and the chairs symbolise words including entshonalanga (sunset), igubu (drum), umalusi (herdsman) and izilo (totem animals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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