17th Jul, 2017 17:00
Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art
157
Mohau Modisakeng (South Africa 1986-)
Untitled (Frame XIV)
inkjet print on Epson Ultrasmooth From an edition of 5 + 2 Artist’s Proofs
Artwork date: 2013
Signature details: Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Exhibited: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Brundyn+ booth, 2013.
Literature: Mokoena, H., Simbao, R. & Jamal, A. (2016). Mohau Modisakeng. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld, another example from this edition illustrated in colour on p.27.
inkjet print on Epson Ultrasmooth From an edition of 5 + 2 Artist’s Proofs
Artwork date: 2013
Signature details: Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Exhibited: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Brundyn+ booth, 2013.
Literature: Mokoena, H., Simbao, R. & Jamal, A. (2016). Mohau Modisakeng. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld, another example from this edition illustrated in colour on p.27.
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200 x 150 cm
Notes:
Mohau Modisakeng’s Frames series of 2012 is a body of photographic portraiture in which the artist himself stands as the subject, exploring the relationship between history and his own body, and introducing discourse around the oppressive power relationships that gave birth to our understanding of ‘Africa’. At the centre of the artist’s practice is an unpacking of, and fascination with societal violence. His multidisciplinary work explores with great sensitivity, the construction of blackness in South Africa, and in particular, a masculine blackness, whose traumas are lived through bodies, both individual and collective. Having been selected as one of two artists to exhibit in South Africa’s pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Modisakeng’s work contributes to an ongoing discourse that attempts to address effectively the infrastructures of oppression and injustice that have woven their way into the fabric of the post-colony.Although culminating quite often in photography, the work reveals strong sculptural concerns, and in Frames, the artist, in a long black tunic poses against a bright white background, wearing a pair of horse blinkers that are adjusted in position from image to image. This re-positioning creates an interesting relationship in which the blinkers operate in not only interrupting the artist’s peripheral view, but in limiting the gaze of the viewer. He holds a panga in either hand, and the stills in the series move between capturing moments of danger, aggression, violence, fear, fragility and pain. In its tensions between the as yet unrealised violence held within the pangas, and the images’ pristine composition, high contrast, and sleek grading, the effect of this body of work derives from its articulating the nuanced journey embedded within any undertaking seeking to use the camera to represent trauma, experience, or history.
Thuli Gamedze
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Auction: Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art, 17th Jul, 2017
Aspire Art Auctions’ second Johannesburg sale offered a selection of some of the best works produced by local and international artists available on the local market. Offerings included Cameroonian-born, Belgium-based, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Chilean, Eugenio Dittborn, and South Africans, William Kentridge, Kendell Geers, Louis Maqhubela, Cecil Skotnes, Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern, and Mohau Modisakeng, amongst others.
The sale was led by an international auction record of R1 200 320 achieved for a drawing, Children under Apartheid, by exiled South African artist Dumile Feni, as well as the successful sale of top international lot Golden Mask by renowned performance artist Marina Abramović.
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