31st Oct, 2016 20:00
Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art
78
Pieter Hugo (South Africa 1976-)
Animal handler with Ajasco, Lagos, Nigeria, 2007 (From the 'Gadawana Kura' - The Hyena Men Series II)
C-Print, printed in New York, mounted on aluminium in a white box frame
Artwork date: 2007
Signature details: accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Edition: edition number 2/5
Exhibited: Michael Stevenson Fine Art, Cape Town.
Literature: Hugo, P. (intro) and Abiola, A. (essay). (2007). The Hyena and Other Men. Munich: Prestel, another example from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaginated.
Sold for R204,624
Estimated at R180,000 - R240,000
C-Print, printed in New York, mounted on aluminium in a white box frame
Artwork date: 2007
Signature details: accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Edition: edition number 2/5
Exhibited: Michael Stevenson Fine Art, Cape Town.
Literature: Hugo, P. (intro) and Abiola, A. (essay). (2007). The Hyena and Other Men. Munich: Prestel, another example from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaginated.
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sheet size: 172.7 x 172.7 cm, unframed
Notes:
Photographer Pieter Hugo was born 1976 in Johannesburg and lives in Cape Town. Major museum solo exhibitions have taken place at The Hague Museum of Photography, Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, MAXXI in Rome and the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, among others. Hugo has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including Tate Modern, the Folkwang Museum, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the São Paulo Bienal. His work is represented in prominent public and private collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art, V&A Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Walther Collection and Huis Marseille. Hugo received the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival and the KLM Paul Huf Award in 2008, the Seydou Keita Award at the Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012.
Hugo has established a reputation as a fearless and uncompromising photographer. This photograph was taken on his second trip to Nigeria, travelling with and photographing the animal handlers and their way of life. He describes the experience in the monograph, Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men. Of the many responses to this body of work, he has said, “Europeans invariably only ask about the welfare of the animals but this question misses the point. Instead, perhaps, we could ask why these performers need to catch wild animals to make a living. Or why they are economically marginalised. Or why Nigeria, the world's sixth largest exporter of oil, is in such a state of disarray” (Hugo 2007).
In Sean O’Toole’s opinion, “Hugo’s magnetic portraits demand attention. They are, quite simply, hard to ignore. The compulsion to look, to not turn away, is, I think, an outcome of his work’s pin-sharp formalism, craftsman-like finesse, acute silence and exaggerated pageantry, the latter often an outcome of simply placing a human subject within a square frame” (O’Toole 2011).
Emma Bedford
Sources:
Hugo, P. (2007) The Dog’s Master. In Pieter Hugo: The Hyena and Other Men. Prestel. http://archive.stevenson.info/exhibitions/hugo/nigeria_index2.htm [Accessed 5 September 2016]
O’Toole, S. (05.05.2011). ‘Permanent Error’. In Mahala. http://www.mahala.co.za/art/permanent-error/ [Accessed 5 September 2016]
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Auction: Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art, 31st Oct, 2016
The line-up for our inaugural sale included an extraordinary selection of art. Works ranged from JH Pierneef’s breathtaking Karoo near Hofmeyer, painted in 1930, to Dan Halter’s 2006, ultraviolet light, Pefection.
Sculptures varied from Edoardo Villa’s acknowledgment of French artist, Aristide Maillol to Wim Botha’s heads that draw on classical and contemporary sources and Ed Young’s cheeky nude self-portrait. Also included were impressive photographs by award-winners, David Goldblatt and Pieter Hugo.
The auction set an impressive standard, with an outstanding sell-through rate of over 75% across 121 lots. The top lot of the sale was Alexis Preller’s exceptional Profile Figures (Mirrored Image), selling for over R7-million. Record sales were achieved for Villa, Goldblatt, and Hugo, amongst others.
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