'Tis the Season
Online-Only Auction, 15 November - 2 December 2024
'Tis the Season
About the Session'Tis the season for giving back while also stocking up on Christmas presents! This auction will benefit two noble causes, The Orange Art Project and the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.
The Orange Art Project facilitates regular art sessions for children and youth in foster families across Cape Town and its surrounding areas. These sessions are hosted by practicing artists contracted by The Project. Sessions typically take place weekly within the foster homes or in the artists’ studios and include the foster mothers where possible. This regular programming is supplemented by outings to various art and culture spaces. Recently these have included: Zeitz MOCAA, the South African Jewish Museum (SAJM), Kirstenbosch, the Irma Stern Museum, and the home/studio of artist Willie Bester.
The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation carries the archbishop’s legacy as a global signpost for exceptional leadership and profound moral courage to tackle the challenges of our time, driven by courage, capacity and compassion.
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About this Item
signed, dated '08 and numbered 12/30
Notes
The design of BIFIDITY is based on a smaller sculpture made as part of the Blind Alphabet Project in 1993. The original piece was made small enough so that it could be picked up and easily handled by a blind person.
The original work made for the Blind Alphabet Project was accompanied by a Braille plaque containing this text quote:
BIFID, BIFIDATE, BIFIDITY
Something bifid, or bifidate is cleft so that it divides into two parts, some will erroneously say, 'forked', like a bifurcated form. If, however, we study the Latin findere that gave rise to bifid, and see that it means 'cleave', then bifid assumes its rightful meaning.
- Willem Boshoff
The proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Orange Art Project.
Provenance
By kind donation of Goodman Gallery.
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