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Ivan Muller
South Africa
Artist highlights
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Printing : Hybrid on Paper
- Framing : Framed
- Dimensions : 23.2x33.1in
- Edition : 9 / 10
- Artist's proof : 1
About this artwork
At Mabilingwe Nature Reserve in Limpopo, a single tree stood in the late afternoon light — its trunk splitting low into two massive arms that rose and spread like a cathedral's vaulting. The bark burned gold in the last of the sun.
Then I folded it.
The split trunk became four columns, and between them a gothic portal appeared — rising from the African bush without anyone having built it. The canopy spread and closed like a vaulted nave. Nothing… here was constructed. One tree, one fold — and the bush revealed an architecture it had been holding inside itself all along, waiting for a different kind of looking to release it.
This is what Forms Beneath is about. Not invention. Discovery. The forms were always there — hidden, as if deliberately, for the reward of a different kind of looking.
Printed as a limited edition fine art giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm.
Then I folded it.
The split trunk became four columns, and between them a gothic portal appeared — rising from the African bush without anyone having built it. The canopy spread and closed like a vaulted nave. Nothing… here was constructed. One tree, one fold — and the bush revealed an architecture it had been holding inside itself all along, waiting for a different kind of looking to release it.
This is what Forms Beneath is about. Not invention. Discovery. The forms were always there — hidden, as if deliberately, for the reward of a different kind of looking.
Printed as a limited edition fine art giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm.
Ivan Muller
South Africa
Credentials
- Works on commission
Ivan Muller is a South African photographer with over 40 years of experience, formally trained at Tshwane University of Technology and recognized with the Ilford Prize for photography. He employs a minimal, observational technique by mirroring natural forms - such as trees and rock faces - along a vertical axis, producing painterly, fine art giclée prints that straddle documentary realism and psychological depth. His artworks evoke a sense of wonder and revelation, inviting viewers to discover hidden symmetries and deeper realities beneath the ordinary surface of the natural world.
Ivan Muller
Forms Beneath: Mabilingwe, Portal (1862)
$800
