About
The Goodman Gallery is pleased to host a new body of work by Walter Oltmann from 13 August – 3 November 2007. This exhibition of new sculpture and works on paper in various media opens at noon on Saturday 13th, on this day the gallery will have extended hours from 09h30 to 17h00 and closes on 3rd November at 16h00.
Using hand-craft techniques related to weaving, Walter Oltmann creates his often monumental wire sculptures for which he has become well known. Process is still very much at the centre of Oltmann’s wire sculptures as he continues to explore domestic craft techniques, together with material and imagery that seems incongruous or disparate to these activities. This opens up various associations and meanings, and creates allusions to Oltmann’s African roots.
Walter Oltmann has continued fabricating wire sculptures by hand to arrive at hybrid forms suggesting an interface between references to insects and human features. These wire sculptures are based on his previous “Larva Suits”, empty garments not unlike suits of armour. These suits allude to insect larvae/ caterpillars as well as features from early forms of dress associated with Europeans who first arrived on African soil. Oltmann’s sculptures (including a few wire net pieces) and drawings continue to articulate ideas relating to the monstrous and the vulnerable and the unsettling of boundaries between categories.
Oltmann’s new body of work comprises a series of ink drawings, prints, and wire sculptures in which he incorporates the use of anodizing to achieve strong metallic colour. The metallic sheen and articulated surfaces created with aluminium, copper, brass and bronze give the works devotional and iconic aura which elevates the ordinary and suggests the possibility of transformation.
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Walter Oltmann Bleeder, 2007 Ink on paper 210 x 100 cm
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Walter Oltmann Chrysalis, 2007 Sculpture 240 x 74 x 50 cm
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Walter Oltmann Caterpillar Suit II, 2007 Aluminum wire 120 x 110 x 68 cm
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Walter Oltmann Locust, 2004 Brass Wire 113 x 129 x 9 cm
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Walter Oltmann Armour, 2007 Aluminum and razor wire 120 x 170 x 40 cm
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Walter Oltmann Caterpillar Suit I, 2007 Anodized aluminum an brass wire 118 x 59 x 42 cm
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Walter Oltmann Shoring, 2007 Aluminum wire and rocks 108 x 105 x 27 cm
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Walter Oltmann Nest, 2007 Anodised aluminum and brass wire 225 x 110 x 25 cm
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Walter Oltmann Imago, 2007 Ink And Bleach On Paper 100 x 210 cm
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Walter Oltmann Larva Suit, 2008 Ink And Bleach On Paper paper size: 151 x 102cm
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Walter Oltmann Scarab Suit II, 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 150 x 100 cm
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Walter Oltmann Mandrake, 2007 Anodised aluminium wire and painted aluminium casts 210 x 148 x 50 cm
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Walter Oltmann Scarab Suit I, 2007 Ink on bleach on paper 60 x 41 cm
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Walter Oltmann Scarab Suit II, 2007 In and bleach on paper 60 x 41 cm
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Walter Oltmann Scarab Suit III, 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 60 x 41 cm
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Walter Oltmann Bleeder I, 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 60 x 41 cm
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Walter Oltmann Bleeder II, 2007 Ink And Bleach On Paper 60 x 41cm
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Walter Oltmann Scarab Suit IV, 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 75 x 55 cm
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Walter Oltmann Scarab Suit V, 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 75 x 55 cm
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Walter Oltmann Beetles and Suits (A-J), 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 14 x 10 cm
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Walter Oltmann In Amber (A-T), 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 14 x 10 cm
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Walter Oltmann Beetle Suit II, 2007 Ink And Bleach On Paper approx. 35 x 25cm each
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Walter Oltmann Beetle Suit III, 2007 Ink And Bleach On Paper approx. 35 x 25cm each
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Walter Oltmann Beetles, 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 27 x 20 cm
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Walter Oltmann Beetle Suit IV, 2007 Ink and bleach on paper 29 x 20 cm
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Walter Oltmann Beetle Suit V, 2007 Ink And Bleach On Paper approx. 35 x 25cm each
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Walter Oltmann Beetle Suit VI, 2007 Ink And Bleach On Paper approx. 35 x 25cm each
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Walter Oltmann Fishmoth, 2007 Aluminium wire 84 x 79 x 7 cm
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