EAST RIFT VALLEY LAND ART INITIATIVE- TAIWAN

” Eroded Illusionistic Space ” – Taiwan 2025

TAIWAN LAND ART INITIATIVE

“ Before me floats an image

man, or shade, Shade more than man

More image than a shade “ 

– W.B Yates

South African sculptor Anton Smit has just returned from Taiwan, where he was one of ten global artists invited to create for the East Rift Valley Land Art Initiative.

His monumental sculpture, Eroded Illusionistic Space is a steel meditation on the theme of man and nature – drawing on the rice fields, towering mountains, and spiritual essence of the land as inspiration.

Working with local art students from the University of Art and Technology in Taitung, Smit brought this vision to life in just two weeks. The piece is a “silent bridge” between worlds – rooted in the soil, yet reaching toward transcendence.

Anton Smit, Taiwan 2025

Concept of the artwork

“ My main objective was to create a sculpture people could relate to, 

considered the beautiful landscape of Luye, framed by mountains and surrounded by rice fields, I tried to symbolize and mimic these colours. “

Subtle colours represent the mountains which are contrasted by the yellow-green steel vertical structures, which represent the rice fields in harmonious play

between subtle and bold.

The cut segments, allows the landscape to become part of the artwork and

symbolizes the interconnectedness of humans and nature and our fundamental oneness with nature.

We all are spiritual beings having earthly experience…

 

“Eroded Illusionistic Space” embodies our oneness with the natural world, our resilience, and our creative calling in service of something greater.

Sculpture Installed 3 July 2025

Title of Work: ERODED ILLUSIONISTIC SPACE

Materials Used: Fiberglass, epoxy resin, sand, paint, iron

Size: Height 450, Width 430, Depth 100 cm

The Creative Process

Press Release event with the mayor of Taitung

Location of Installation Site 

​955, Taiwan, Taitung County, Luye Township

To Find out more | Commission a Sculpture, kindly email: info@antonsmit.co.za 

VIEW MORE OF ANTON SMIT LARGE SCALE SCULPTURES HERE 

About the artist, Anton Smit
 
Born in Boksburg in August 1954, Anton entered his first sculpting exhibition at the age of sixteen and won first prize. Following successful exhibitions in White River, Nelspruit, Pretoria and Cape Town, Smit turned to sculpting full-time.
 
In 1990, international recognition came in the form of exhibitions in Rome and Milan, an invitation to exhibit in New York and Hong Kong, as well as a return exhibition in Italy in 1993. More exhibitions followed in Bonn, Washington, Singapore and Koln.
 
His body of work comprises towering human figures, nudes, heads, masks, hands, angels, floating and stretching figures, warriors, as well as abstract works, sculpted out of steel, metal, stone and a unique iron and polymer cast mixture, as well as bronze.
 
Anton’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Pretoria Art Museum, Rupert Museum, Graff/Delaire Collection, University of Pretoria Museums , Century City Art Foundation.  

– Read Full Biography

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About Anton Smit Sculptures

 

 
 
 
Limited Editions
Unless differently indicated, the usual total of editions made of a specific artwork in a GRP Material is 24 and in Bronze only 12.
By keeping the editions of a specific artwork to a limit, secures the investment value for the collector / owner.
 
 
 
 
 
Certificate of Authenticity
Each artwork comes signed by Anton Smit, with a certificate of authenticity, the artwork is allocated an unique edition number.
The Certificate includes: the Title of the piece, Dimensions, Material, Unique Edition nr, Date of Issue, Signed by Anton.
 
 
 

 

 
Services Offered
Anton Smit offers in addition to his artworks also: secure global shipping, an art advisory service, curation, site visits, delivery and installation.
 

 

 

Materials
Anton works with mostly steel, metal, stones, a unique iron and polymer cast mixture, and bronze.

 

 

 

Sculpture Enquiries:

Contact: Roelien Smit  |  CEO

Email: roelien@antonsmitsculptures.co.za

 
Cell: +27 82 653 7659
Address: Black Eagle Lane, Aqua Vista Mountain Estate, Bronkhorstspruit dam, 1020
South Africa