Competition — 10 June 2026

 34 Days to GO!!!

This work forms part of an ongoing investigation into structure, weight, and stillness within Silent Monumentalism.

The focus remains on how form holds space without expression or narrative.

Date:
10 June 2026, 14:00

Location:
Pretoria Art Museum
South Africa

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Silent Monumentalism explores how proximity between forms creates tension, meaning, and presence.

- Pieter Lategan, 16 April 2026

Start date:
16 April 2026

Gravitas - A New Discipline within Silent Monumentalism

Pieter Lategan | STUDIO

2026

Pieter Lategan | STUDIO is beginning a new line of artistic research titled Gravitas.

Gravitas is being developed as a discipline within Silent Monumentalism, a conceptual and visual framework concerned with presence, structure, silence, restraint, and psychological weight.

Where Silent Monumentalism provides the wider framework, Gravitas will focus on a more specific question:

How can form, space, balance, and material presence create a feeling of weight, stillness, and quiet force?

This new direction will study the relationship between:

• solid mass and empty space
• balance and imbalance
• visual weight and silence
• proximity and tension
• grounded forms and suspended forms
• material honesty and structural presence

The work will begin through notes, drawings, diagrams, and small studies before moving into paintings, sculptural objects, desk pieces, wall works, and possible limited editions.

The first visual studies are still being developed and will be shared in the near future.

For now, this announcement marks the beginning of Gravitas as a focused discipline within Pieter Lategan’s ongoing development of Silent Monumentalism.

Pieter Lategan
Founder of Silent Monumentalism
Developing Gravitas within Silent Monumentalism
Pretoria Gauteng South Africa,
6 May 2026