Ponte Towers, Johannesburg, 2006.
$1,750.00
Tax included.
'Ponte' has dominated the popular imagination in South Africa for decades. Many artists have used the large tube's shifting fortunes as a barometer for those of the mother ship.
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“Ponte [is] a pivot of multi and overlapping transitions that hinge on it, from the Urban, economic, Political and demographic shifts around 1969... Ponte can also be seen as an expression of the pivotal Architectural element, its plan is a cluster of circles or as a Nucleus, as its shopping center was aptly called.” Hannah Le Roux writing in 'Ponte as A Pivot'
For around 4000 people it's home.
Small 120 x 120 cm x 1
Medium 50 x 40 cm x 2
Large 100 x 80 cm x 1
+ 1 A/P
