19th Jun, 2024 19:00
20th Century & Contemporary Art
31
Moshekwa Langa (South Africa 1975-)
Mind Map
mixed media and collage on paper
Sold for R293,125
Estimated at R250,000 - R350,000
mixed media and collage on paper
(1)
140 x 100 cm; framed size: 160.5 x 120 x 4.5 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Johannesburg.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Moshekwa Langa's artistic approach encompasses drawing, installation, video, and photography, utilizing materials from his immediate environment to document his personal history and emotions. Shaped by his childhood in a rural, apartheid-era 'Homeland' often omitted from maps, Langa consciously maps his autobiography through his art. He draws on significant people, events, and places from his life to explore both physical and psychological boundaries. Central to this endeavor are Langa's large-scale works on paper, which often have a dreamlike quality. These pieces emerge from the accumulation of transient marks and actions, and the blending of seemingly disparate elements. Langa's art is both poetic and sentimental, aiming to visualize experiences and emotions that cannot be easily expressed in words, and to engage with the elusive nature of meaning.
COLLECTOR'S NOTE
- Aspire Art currently holds the artist’s auction record, with the impressive work on paper, The Cyclone that Never Abates, selling for R455 200 in 2019.
- Notable solo exhibitions include Omweg at KM21 in the Netherlands in 2022, The Sweets of Sin at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York in 2021, Tropic of Capricorn at Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town in 2019 and Relatives at Blain Southern Gallery in London in 2018.
- Langa has participated in several significant international group exhibitions including Africa Remix, a touring exhibition with Dusseldorf’s Museum Kunstpalast between 2004 and 2007 and another travelling exhibition, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 with Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, between 2001 and 2002.
- Langa has had his works featured in We Don’t Need Another Hero at the 10th Berlin Biennale, Germany, in 2018, and The Red Hour at the 13th Dakar Biennale, Senegal, in 2018. Langa additionally participated in the 2011 Lyon Biennale, the 2010 and 1998 editions of the Bienal de São Paulo, the 2009 and 2003 editions of the Venice Biennale, and the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale.
- The artist has won multiple awards, namely the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 2005 and the ABSA L’Atelier Award in 1996.
COLLECTIONS:
The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Modern, London, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
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Auction: 20th Century & Contemporary Art, 19th Jun, 2024
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