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For Design Miami 2023, Southern Guild presents specially commissioned and recently made works of collectible design by leading artists from the African continent, including Porky Hefer, Zizipho Poswa, Rich Mnisi, Stanislaw Trzebinski and Andile Dyalvane.
Southern Guild’s presentation at Design Miami 2023 brings together a collection of richly handcrafted objects in which nature’s presence is unleashed in a profusion of forms that twist, morph and grow before our eyes. With an emphasis on three-dimensionality, these works encompass moments of play and quiet reflection, escape and wild release – perhaps best exemplified by the sinuous duality of a snake painted in pastel hues onto Dokter and Misses’ Hug Me Like a Python, LALA Limo Series server.
Highlights of Southern Guild’s presentation this year include a pair of hand-stitched leather seating pods by Porky Hefer, representing a lion and a dove and signalling a turn towards minimalist form. The booth also features a new bronze desk with beaded curtain and a new iteration of the Vutlhari chandelier with scale-like shades by Rich Mnisi, three large-scale bronze sculptures from Zizipho Poswa’s recent exhibition, iiNtsika zeSizwe (Pillars of the Nation), at Galerie56 in New York, and a series of otherworldly sculptural works by Kenyan artist Stanislaw Trzebinski, among other notable pieces.
Charles Haupt
King Houndekpinkou
Andile Dyalvane
Ngobozana (My Village), 2020Earthenware
23.63 x 40.5 x 20.88 in. | 60 x 103 x 53 cm
Dokter and Misses
Hug Me Like a Python, LALA Limo Series, 2023Mild steel, marble, glass, enamel
35.38 x 86.63 x 17.75 in.
Unique
King Houndekpinkou
Small Blue Cavilux: Ocean Waves and Stars II, 2022Glazed stoneware
7.88 x 10.63 x 10.63 in.
King Houndekpinkou
Outer Space Ritual Vessel Sculpture: Bubble Tea Juice and Pink Bubble Gum Offerings II, 2022Glazed stoneware
16.5 x 19.75 x 12.63 in.
King Houndekpinkou
Outer Space Silver Ritual Vessel Sculpture, 2022Glazed stoneware
12.25 x 8.63 x 8.63 in.
King Houndekpinkou
Small Bubble Tea Ritual Totem, 2022Glazed stoneware, acrylic
10.63 x 7.13 x 7.13 in.
King Houndekpinkou
Green and Orange Bubble Tea Vessel Sculpture, 2022Glazed stoneware, acrylic
18.88 x 11.75 x 11.75 in.
Rich Mnisi
Vutlhari II (Wisdom), 2023Bronze, nylon, lighting components
59 x 53.38 x 45.5 in.
Edition of 5
Stanislaw Trzebinski
Delightful Disaster, 2022Copper, epoxy, walnut
79⅞ x 246 x 1⅝ in.
Edition of 4, 1AP
Stanislaw Trzebinski
Toxic Bloom, 2022Bronze, hand-blown glass, electrical components
55.13 x 13.38 x 8.63 in.
Edition of 4, 1AP
Stanislaw Trzebinski
Humongous Fungus, 2022Bronze, hand-blown glass, electrical components
65 x 23⅝ x 22½ in.
Edition 2 of 4
Stanislaw Trzebinski
Terrific Trepidations, 202286⅝ x 21⅝ x 20½ in.
86⅝ x 21⅝ x 20½ in.
Edition 3 of 4, 1AP
Porky Hefer
Yoko, 2023Leather, sheepskin, eucalyptus, steel
61 x 86.25 x 47.25 in. | 155 x 219 x 120 cm
Edition of 3
Porky Hefer
John, 2023Leather, sheepskin, steel
62.25 x 87.75 x 44.13 in. | 158 x 223 x 112 cm
Edition of 3