Charl Grabe

Charl Grabe

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About Charl

Charl is an Artist with SouthAfricanArtists.com based in South Africa.

Charl Gräbe was born in 1970, and obtained a BA (Fine Arts: Information Design) in 1995.

This Cape Town based graphic designer turned artist has worked and lived in Johannesburg, London and Cape Town. He does abstract painting, as well as resin sculptures.

He finds inspiration from the collages of Dada artists as well as the abstract artists such as Baeselitz, Appel and Pollock. He explores multi-level landscape abstractions in his painting, and layered object collages in his resin sculpture.

Charl has had three solo exhibitions since 2001. His work is represented in collections throughout South Africa, Brussels and the UK. He has been invited to exhibit at the Florence Biennale in December 2003.

He is moving to Mozambique to start a crafts centre manufacturing basket-weave furniture for export.

Price Range

US$319-354

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Exhibitions

Message in a bottle: Association for Visual Arts (Cape Town) 2002
Record: Bellville Association of Arts (Cape Town) 2003
Florence Biennale, December 2003

Education

BA Visual Arts, (Information Design): UP

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