27th Mar, 2017 15:00
Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art
130
Mohau Modisakeng (South Africa 1986-)
Ditaola XV
Inkjet print on Epson Ultrasmooth dibonded aluminium composite from an edition of 5 + 2 Artist’s Proofs
Artwork date: 2014
Exhibited: Brundyn+, Cape Town, Ditaola (solo show), 29 May to 12 July 2014.
Literature: Mokoena, H., Simbao, R. & Jamal, A. (2016). Mohau Modisakeng. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld, another example from this edition illustrated in colour on p.56.
Sold for R204,624
Estimated at R150,000 - R250,000
Inkjet print on Epson Ultrasmooth dibonded aluminium composite from an edition of 5 + 2 Artist’s Proofs
Artwork date: 2014
Exhibited: Brundyn+, Cape Town, Ditaola (solo show), 29 May to 12 July 2014.
Literature: Mokoena, H., Simbao, R. & Jamal, A. (2016). Mohau Modisakeng. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld, another example from this edition illustrated in colour on p.56.
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198 x 149 cm
Notes:
Born in Soweto, one of South Africa’s foremost townships in the struggle against apartheid and the site of the massacre of hundreds of young pupils during the 1976 student revolt, Mohau Modisakeng came of age in a highly political environment, punctuated by excesses of the apartheid government whose effects still linger in the autumn air of the post-apartheid era.‘Ditaolo’, which means divination in Setswana, speaks directly to the black South African condition and its attendant scars and traumas, of living in fear and resistance. Divination addresses African spirituality and ritual, a collective ancestral communion which bound communities through a healing, education and dreaming practice, since threatened with erasure by the violence of the colonial project and its corollary, apartheid.Contemporary black subjectivity in South Africa, his work attests, is a kind of schizophrenic existence, a double consciousness forever suspended in a liminality between the past and the present, outside of historical time owing to its racism and subjugation but also part of the post-apartheid democratic project of national unity. In Ditaolo XV we find the artist trapped inside this frame of suspension – he is in traditional garb, a rifle in one hand, and a white dove caught mid-flutter in another. He is a fighter, a peace man, a relic caught in the demands of global contemporary society. These symbols are given affect by the visibly modern setting, with green light and white powder, the translucent effect of the photograph, of the artist and the space that surrounds him, of motion and stillness, which gesture towards a dreamlike space. A space of action and inaction, of the intersection of reality and unreality, of dreams and horrors and, ultimately, of transcendence and divination.Modisakeng was the Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winner for Visual Arts in 2016. His work is included in the Zeitz MOCAA collection. He will represent South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 in a major two-person exhibition with Candice Breitz.
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Auction: Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art, 27th Mar, 2017
The Inaugural Cape Auction offed a diverse range of top-quality historic, modern and contemporary works. With a focus on critically engaged art and a curated approach, seasoned and new collectors competed to acquire significant works.
Aspire’s commitment to the growth of the art market saw international records broken in recognition of exiled South African artists. Louis Maqhubela’s Exiled King, a definitive, politically motivated work, sold for R341,040 - three times his previous record, and Albert Adams’ Untitled (Four Figures with Pitchforks), his first appearance at auction, sold for R136,416. Top prices were also achieved for established artists including J.H Pierneef, William Kentridge, and Edoardo Villa, and contemporary artwork fared exceptionally with record prices for David Brown, Steven Cohen, Mohau Modisakeng, Moshekwa Langa, and Mikhael Subotzky.
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