Who am i

Martin Disler (1954) is an artist and sculptor born in Cape Town, South Africa. His formative years were in Zimbabwe (then, Rhodesia), and later he would become a Student of architecture at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Martin culminated his learnings at the prestigious AA (Architectural Association) in London.

His entry into art and sculpting symbolises a distillation of the exceedingly dissolving boundaries between categorisations of design, art and architecture; herewith broadening the scope and space in which artists can gain their education, and refrain from being bound by a single medium or discipline.

Martin’s work investigates dichotomies of the intangible and tangible, the physical and digital - creating sculptural figures that envision futurist themes challenging the fears around humanity’s synthesis with technology and proposes a new and sacred landscape in which this synthesis might be both destined and symbiotic.

Martin’s sculpting process utilises his hand, with subsequent bronze casting allowing his work to reference a temporal span of some 35 000 years of artistic expression on the planet, and tie deeply into his thematic concerns of human civilization, transitions and technology. It is within the significance of both Martin’s process and subsequent bodies of work that his intuitive and profound practice can be understood.