Brendhan Dickerson
68220 Hégenheim
 
Dernière participation aux ateliers ouverts
2020
 
Techniques
- Performance
- Sculpture
 
contact
60 rue de Bâle
68220 Hégenheim
brendhand@gmail.com
tél : 07 86 98 10 25
https://www.brendhandickerson.com
 
Présentation
Brendhan Dickerson a travaillé principalement dans le fer forgé, souvent en combinaison avec le bois ou le bronze. Le processus intense, presque alchimique, qui consiste à transformer un matériau résistant en le travaillant tout en le chauffant, résonne avec sa quête de transmutation intérieure.
Bien qu’il cherche souvent à articuler une perspective lyrique, ironique ou satirique, c’est sa perception de la sculpture comme fondamentalement performative qui motive ses choix formels et qui anime le plus sa pratique.
Dans les années 90, parallèlement à son travail en studio, il a commencé à explorer la sculpture performative de feu. Pour lui, il y a quelque chose d’atavique dans la sculpture de feu, quelque chose de primal et de fascinant dans son immédiateté et sa fugacité. En tant que forme d’art éphémère et irrécupérable, elle est un contrepoint à la permanence de la sculpture en fer et en bronze.
Ces dernières années, il s’est immergé plus profondément dans la performance. Fusionnant les aspects durables et éphémères de sa pratique, le travail qui émerge de ce changement explore l’intersection des objets sculpturaux performatifs avec le corps performatif spontané, et avec l’énigme de la présence et de la communion incarnée
 
Parcours
Living in Switzerland since 2014.
University of Cape Town
1987 – 1991: B.A. Fine Art (Sculpture) Cum Laude, with accreditation in Drama.
1993 – 1995: Masters in Fine Art (Sculpture)
Cum Laude,
www.brendhandickerson.com
I have lectured Fine Art at various art collages and also taught in a range of
social pedagogical contexts
Museums and corporate collections:
South African National Gallery,
The Johannesburg Gallery.
The Durban Art Gallery.
Oppenheimer collection.
Wooltru collection
Of course much more work is in private collections
Exhibitions
2022 Horizons, group show,Gallery Katapult,Basel
Dogs in the Hoods and Woods, group show Salon Mondial
2021 Mother Earth Calling, group show, Salon Mondial, Basel
Atelier Ouverts 2021. Exhibition and Performance,
Fabrick Culture Heggenheim,France
Fensterkuration, diverse sculptures displayed in shop-window gallery at
Heuberg 25, Altstadt Basel.
2020 Abseits – Apart. Group exhibition at le Ventre in Hegenheim, France.
2019 : Port Ouverts, Fabrick-Culture, Hegenheim, France.
Guest Artist at Editions Basel.
2018: Is-Art Gallery, Swellendam
South Africa.
2017: Land und Stadt, Ittigen, Switzerland
2016: Liste Total, Basel
2014-15: Is-Art Gallery Franschoek.
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg.
2011: Horse, multiple views of a singular beast, Everard Read
Contemporary
2008: Infecting the City, Art in Public Space, Cape Town.
Myerson Fine Art, Menier Gallery, and Paul Smith, Abermale Str.,
London.
2007: Living conditioned, Solo-show, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape
Town
South African Art, 1840 – Now, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
2004: Solo-show Suspended Disbelief, Association for the Visual Arts,
Cape Town.
Performance:
2020: Synapse: performative percussion sculpture, central to Butoh dance and
improvised concert at Humbug club, Basel.
Precarity – performance with suspended log and PM Transmision
at Le Ventre, Hegenheim France, in the context of Abseits exhibition
2019: PM Transmission, Le Ventre, (an Off-space in a former
synagogue in Hegenheim) in November. First performed
at M54 exhibition space in Basel as a contribution to
their Gimme Shelter roof-repair fundraising drive.
Did a performance in support of the Glacier Initiative’s petition
for a zero emissions plebiscite in Switzerland
2018: Un-told, Srinagar Biennale, Basel Node.
2017: Umwandeln, Dimanche, Fabrik-culture Hegenheim, France.
Fire-sculpture-Performance
2021: Gaia’s Fury,Vernissage of Mother Earth Calling, Salon Mondial, Basel.
2019: A Waldwesen Appeared at the Wedding Party. Near Gempen,
Switzerland
Transfigure, Commissioned for Poetische Flucht in die Wirklichkeit
(Poetic flight into reality), an exhibition at the Rhine-falls near
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
2017: Tanz der Feuerwesen (dance of the fire-creatures). A Grand event in
collaboration with the Kunstwerkstatt, Sophie Blocher Haus, Association for
Social Psychiatry, Liestal. Trailer Performance at Bazar Noel, Walzwerk Areal,
Munchenstein
2016: Trying to Fly, Visarte anniversary, M54, Basel.
2013: Vlam Fire-Collective , A collective of South African fire-sculptors,
founded for the purpose of taking a large performance to the
Burning Man festival in Nevada, USA.
2011: Complicit, commissioned for Threshold. An exhibition of works
around Climate-change at Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town.
2007: Succession Debate. District 6. X-Cape; Cape 07 Biennale, Cape Town.
2005: From Father to Son, performed at the The National Arts Festival, Grahamstown,
the Klein Karroo Kunstefees, Oudshoorn and Aardklop Arts Festival,
Potchefstroom.
2001: Fire-sculpture Performance at Veronica Rhein Badi, Basel. During a iaab
Residency.
Diner’s Club , Joubert Park Public Art Project, in Johannesburg.
Architectural ( kunst am Bau ) commissions / competitions:
2013: Tread Lightly on the Earth. Large, wrought Stainless steel wall
sculpture referencing ecology and sustainable energy, for Hotel Verde,
Cape Town.
2009: In the Balance 8 m wrought iron pendant structure with diverse
Bronze figures for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa,
Sculpture competition. In collaboration with Petra Keinhorst.
2006 A Balanced view, 7m x 6.5 m wrought stainless steel figurative
mobile commissioned by Webber Wenzil-Bowen, a big
Johannesburg law firm.
2000 Large pendant sculpture for Vodacom, Cape Town