Curatorial Voices: Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa

Live Virtual Auction, 28 February 2023

Curatorial Voices: Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa
About the Session

Curatorial Voices: Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa is a dynamic collaborative project conceived by Strauss & Co to address the need for diversified representation of artists from across the African continent in the secondary market. Curated by Strauss & Co Heads of Sale, Kirsty Colledge and Kate Fellens, with input by seven international art experts with embedded knowledge of Africa; Serge Tiroche, Valerie Kabov, Heba Elkayal, Danda Jaroljmek, Anne Kariuki, Dana Endundo Ferreira, Kimberley Cunningham. Curatorial Voices presents collectors with a broad selection of work by leading contemporary artists alongside select pieces by important historical artists.


Sold for

ZAR 56 280
Lot 34
  • Nandipha Mntambo; Narcissus


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 56 280

About this Item

Swazi 1982-
Narcissus
2009

accompanied by a Micheal Stevenson Fine Art certificate of authenticity signed, dated 2009, numbered 3/5 and inscribed with the title

pigment ink printed on cotton rag paper
image size: 100 by 99cm

Notes

Photographic compositing, Tony Meintjies.

Nandipha Mntambo was born in Swaziland in 1982. She works between Cape Town and Johannesburg. Mntambo obtained her Master's in Fine Arts from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. In 2011, Mntambo was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award. She has had several solo shows in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Europe, with her work being included in many group shows locally and internationally.

Mntambo works in sculpture, video, printmaking, performance, and photography. She is well known for her sculptural works in cowhide, which interrogate the form of gender in representation and the similarities and differences between humans and animals.

Biography is courtesy of LL Editions.

Provenance

Michael Stevenson Fine Art, Johannesburg.

Property of Collectors.

Exhibited

Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, The Encounter, 16 April to 30 May 2009. Catalogue no 41: page 26, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on the cover and on page 27.

Literature

Sophie Perryer (ed.) (2011) Nandipha Mntambo: Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2011, Cape Town and Johannesburg: Stevenson in Association with Standard Bank and the National Arts Festival, page 62, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on page 64.

Ross Truscott (2016) 'Empathy’s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling' in Safundi, 17(2): 1-21, illustrated on page 16, figure 3.

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