Making Art: Roelof Louw

Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) in construction

When one of our customers placed an order for 18 boxes of oranges, we we're intrigued to say the least. Either there was a serious vitamin C deficient in their office, or they were planning something pretty special. And that they were.

Last weekend the team at Richard Saltoun helped Roelof Louw once again exhibited his famous work, Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) using non other than Fruit For The Office oranges. This sculpture takes over 6000 of the citrus fruits and arranges them into a perfect pyramid. The piece transforms and adapts throughout the exhibition as visitors are encouraged to interact with the work by helping themselves to a serving of fruit.

The piece evolves as visitors help themselves to the fruit

Fear not, if you missed the exhibition last weekend, you can see the Pyramid of Oranges once again at the David Bowie is exhibition due to take place at the V&A from 23rd March - 11th August.

Be sure to send us a snap of you and your orange!

Roelof Louw: Pyramid of Oranges

The ‘Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges)’ was first created in 1967 by South African artist Roelof Louw.

This eye-catching piece of art has now been recreated for a museum in Leeds as it revisits sculpture from the 60’s and 70’s. The exhibition entitled ‘United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s’, uses a recreation of Louw’s orange pyramid as its centrepiece.

Once again the piece has been created using over 6,000 locally sourced oranges and visitors are encourage to help themselves to an orange if they wish.

We can only assume they heard about our fabulous fruit wall at the Square Meal event and decided to have a go at something similar!

The exhibitions can be seen at the Henry Moore Gallery in Leeds until March 2011