March ART
Timed Online Auction, 28 February - 10 March 2025
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About this Item
signed, dated 2002, numbered 3/12 and inscribed with the title and 'Kunhinga, Angola' in pencil in the margin
Literature
DaimlerChrysler South Africa (ed) (2004) Guy Tillim, Pretoria: DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Photography, illustrated in black and white on page 87.
Johannesburg Art Gallery (2007) Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on page 82.
Exhibited
Stevenson, Cape Town, Kunhinga portraits, 18 June to 19 July 2003, another example from the edition exhibited.
Provenance
The Gary Eisenberg Collection.
Notes
"Taken in February 2002 in the Angolan province of Bie, near Kuito, Guy Tillim's Kunhinga portraits portray displaced people, who in the months before the end of the civil war, fled in advance of the Angolan government's "clearing" of regions where civilians had provided cover for UNITA soldiers. The subjects had walked for five days from Monge to seek refuge in the small town of Kunhinga in the safe havens provided by foreign agencies stationed in the area"1
1. Michael Stevenson (no date) Guy Tillim: Kunhinga Portraits, online, https://archive.stevenson.info/exhibitions/kunhinga/kunhinga.htm, accessed 25 August 2024.