Art Meets Nature
Sculpture Exhibition by ANTON SMIT
”Die Verlange“
Set up within one of South Africa’s top botanical gardens, Anton Smit’s latest exhibition, called Art Meets Nature, offer a glimpse of our interconnectedness with nature and with others.
The exhibition is open for public viewing at the National Botanical Gardens in Kirstenbosch Cape Town. The viewing of these exquisite pieces is already included in the entrance fee to the Garden. – This Exhibition will be Open: until 16 February 2026.
ALL SCULPTURES AS SHOWN BELOW – AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
DIRECT FROM THE ARTIST
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Address: Kirstenbosch Gardens, Rhodes Dr, Newlands, Cape Town, 7735 *View Map
Kirstenbosch Gardens
Kirstenbosch Gardens
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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.
Address: Black Eagle Lane, Aqua Vista Mountain Estate, Bronkhorstspruit dam, 1020
South Africa
