Ed Young and the flying Archbishop

Desmond Tutu is hanging in the air in Cape Town

Arch is a public installation by Ed Young and was launched at the end of September 2010 at IDASA’s Cape Town Democracy Centre and opened by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
The installation is officially open for public viewing.

Ed Young, the maestro of the tempete in the tasse de the, enjoys world-wide fame in inner city Cape Town. This wunderkind of the provincial avant-garde generally refrains from art-making. His stance is posited on the proposition that the art world has become the art object, and that painting and sculpture are thus redundant. The role of the artist is not to do, but to be. This premise underlies Ed’s heavily sponsored appearances at international art events where all he does is grace the social whirl with his presence.

IDASA
6 Spin Street
Cape Town

Photo Credit: Alan Taylor