Contemporary Art
Live Auction, 16 February 2019
Contemporary Auction
Lot Estimate
ZAR 180 000 - 240 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 204 840
About this Item
South African 1986-
Untitled
2014
from an edition of 3 + 2AP
ink-jet print on Epson UltraSmooth
150 by 200cm excluding frame
Notes
‘In this uncertain and violent time he has given us artworks that powerfully connect with our fraught psyches and impassioned hopes. His is an art of yearning. Rather than state the obvious – the on-going grotesquerie of inequality, human indignity and cruelty, the rot of prejudice, the ruthlessness of self-interest and greed – Modisakeng has chosen to implicate us in a battle on behalf of grace.’
Ashraf Jamal. (2017) ‘Mohau Modisakeng: Occupation’, in Gerhard Mulder (ed.) Mohau Modisakeng.,Cape Town: WHATIFTHEWORLD. Page 104.
Literature
Gerard Mulder (ed.) (2017) Mohau Modisakeng. Cape Town: WHATIFTHEWORLD. Illustrated in colour on page 64.Other lots that might interest you
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