User:Helena Vogelzang

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Helena Vogelzang - Sculptor - art by Helena (Pty)Ltd
Renowned international South African sculptor Helena Vogelzang received accolades for her participation in the Biennale de Chianciano 2011, Tuscany, Italy, accepting an award from the European Confederation of Art Critics. More recently her articulating sculpture of the endangered Pangolin "Circle of Life" was selected to represent South Africa at the 5th Beijing International Art Biennale 2012, China. Her life size sculpture of horse and rider - Xhosa King Sandile. Commissioned by the National Heritage Project, is now on public display at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein. This is a temporary intallation and includes a growing group of bronze figures, by variouse sculptors, historically representing the 'Long mile to freedom'. She graduated with distinction from the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg, where she was able to explore her talent. Discovering the wonders of Augusta Rodin and the challenge of capturing the essence of a fluid, moving subject in a static composition, whilst incorporating her erstwhile graphic design studies into fine art. Helena has chosen sculpture as her primary form of artistic expression and she is compelled by the three dimensional values of form exploring the contours, texture and light of her subjects seeking to reveal the "universal light that is within all things." Thus striving to capture that intangible fourth dimension that gives her sculptures soul. "My goal is to capture the essence of a subject, to evoke emotion in the viewer." For Helena this is an ongoing adventure of exploration, endeavouring to find a window of expression and interpreting it. She is ever mindful that a truly new idea is a rare and elusive thing. As Rodin expressed with this ethos - "I invent nothing, I rediscover."

Her prize winning artworks are modelled and reproduced with fine technical skill and created to the highest standards, while honouring the timeless tradition of the ancient bronze casting process. The complex nature of each work's primal genesis is a constant fascination for this active artist: "My creative imaginings emerge from the alchemy of the bronzing process in solid form." Helena Vogelzang, 2011 www.helenavsculptor.com