Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Online-Only Auction, 14 - 25 April 2022
South African Art at the Venice Biennale
About the SessionThis Venice Biennale-themed session in Strauss & Co's April online-only auction is timed to coincide with the launch of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale in late April, and Strauss & Co’s sponsorship of the African Art in Venice Forum 2022 at Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal on 20 and 21 April. This session divulges the history of the Venice Biennale and South African art, as the art world converges on Venice. South Africa first became part of the Venice Biennale more than seventy years ago. The cordial relationship between Italy and South Africa over this period has nurtured international support for artists and art organisations in this country and continues to develop today.
About this Item
a portfolio of five colour photolithographic prints each signed, dated 84, and numbered 48/200; and a mixed media drawing signed, dated 84, and inscribed with the title Monkey Propagating Seed
Notes
'I made Monkey Shrine a vehicle for expressing as much of the pleasure as I could. Against such self-indulgence I have sought to describe the paradoxes of fear and pain and isolation, using repellent images which nevertheless convey dignity and pathos. In no way is any of this work satire, it is simply a set of metaphors which glance off each other.'1
1. Judith Mason (1989) Talking Pictures: A scrapbook with notes and comments, Broederstroom: Broederstroom Press, page 4.
Judith Mason exhibited at the Venice Biennale, South African Pavilion in 1966.
Literature
Judith Mason (1989) Talking Pictures: A scrapbook with notes and comments, Broederstroom: Broederstroom Press, illustrated on pages 2 and 3, mentioned in text on pages 4 and 5.
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