Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts

Live Auction, 12 October 2015

South African and International Art, Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 34 104
Lot 475
  • Mikhael Subotzky; Playing with Plastic, Toekomsrus, Beaufort West


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 34 104

About this Item

South African 1981-
Playing with Plastic, Toekomsrus, Beaufort West
lightjet C-print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper
48,5 by 59,5cm excluding frame

Notes

Edition 7/9

Accompanied by certificate of authenticity

Exhibited

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Beaufort West, 2008

Studio La Citta, Verona, Beaufort West, 2007

Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, Beaufort West, 2007

FOAM (Foto Museum Amsterdam), Amsterdam, Beaufort West, 2007

Literature

Mikhael Subotzky. (2008) Beaufort West, London: Chris Boot. Illustrated in colour on page 11

Jonny Steinberg in Mikhael Subotzky: Beaufort West, page 75:

Almost every photograph carries a suggestion of theatre, and almost every theatre uses the desert as its stage. The boy on the rubbish heap who has donned the Spider-Man mask he found in the trash; the children launching the white sheet into the wind; the screaming man and the princess on their manicured horses; the white girl with the competition tag and high heels on the black-floored stage, posing for an audience off-camera; the snake and the elephant staring so very sweetly at the ill man on the bed; the prisoner lying beneath a massive mural of cacti and sand and stone, like a giant bubble representing the inside of his mind. In each photograph the subjects transport themselves elsewhere: where, precisely, we are not sure.

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