About the artist
Born in 1976 in Johannesburg, Stefanus Rademeyer, a Postwar and Contemporary artist, holds an MA in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand (2005). He won the Absa L'Atelier art competition in 2001, which led to a six-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2002, followed by an Ampersand Foundation residency in New York in 2003.
Rademeyer’s work was featured in a group exhibition curated by Warren Siebrits, titled The Ampersand Foundation 1997-2003. In this prolific year, he held a solo exhibition at the Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art in Johannesburg, called Surface Depth, and another at the Wits Art Gallery titled 20:20 Mapping Trajectories. In 2006, he returned to Warren Siebrits Gallery for his second solo exhibition, Ideograph, where he explored themes of structural geometry, earning acclaim for its abstract visual interpretations.
Now a full-time artist based in Johannesburg, Rademeyer shows a keen interest in complex systems and the emergence of dynamic forms through generative processes.
In his sculptures and computer-generated drawings, Rademeyer investigates complex systems and the emergence of dynamic forms through generative processes of making. He accomplishes this by assembling units and employing algorithmic equations as the generative driver behind his work. The generative algorithms he employs often describe the inherent forms and intricacies of various natural features such as geological, crystalline and botanic structures.
