12th Nov, 2017 17:00

Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art

 
Lot 58
 
Lot 58 - Mustafa Maluka(South Africa 1976-)

58

Mustafa Maluka(South Africa 1976-)
The smell of fear is thicker than you think

oil and acrylic on canvas

Artwork date: 2007
Signature details: signed and dated on the reverse
Exhibited: Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, Mustafa Maluka: The Interview (a transcript), 15 February to 16 March 2007.
Literature: Perryer, S. (ed). (2007). Mustafa Maluka: The Interview (a transcript) exhibition catalogue. Cape Town: Michael Stevenson, colour illustration, unpaginated.

Sold for R318,304
Estimated at R80,000 - R120,000


 

oil and acrylic on canvas

Artwork date: 2007
Signature details: signed and dated on the reverse
Exhibited: Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, Mustafa Maluka: The Interview (a transcript), 15 February to 16 March 2007.
Literature: Perryer, S. (ed). (2007). Mustafa Maluka: The Interview (a transcript) exhibition catalogue. Cape Town: Michael Stevenson, colour illustration, unpaginated.

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183 x 132 cm

Notes:

Maluka works at the cutting edge intersection of street culture, popular media and, in this case, painting. These repurposed and transformed images retain their origins as portraits drawn from the worlds of fashion and music, but their recontextualisation, and imagining by the artist as cool, technicolour, and on the surface at least, bright and welcoming, belies their confrontational and unsettling nature.Maluka’s intellectual and theoretical concerns with issues of displacement, migration, racism and geopolitics make this work unusually prescient. Made a decade ago, it anticipates the current wholesale crossover between pop culture and fine art, and does so in a way that beguiles and presents as, ultimately, very painterly. Yet there is an edge to the aesthetic, as bright and realist as it appears on first view. The non-natural palette sits uneasily with the naturalistic rendering of the subjects, making the paintings a source of growing fascination.

James Sey

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Auction: Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art, 12th Nov, 2017

Aspire’s final auction for 2017 ended the year on a high note with a collection of top historical, modern and contemporary artworks.

A number of superb historic paintings came to auction, dating back to the late nineteenth century. Among them were works by Hugo Naudé, Anton Van Wouw, and Dorothy Kay. A fine collection of mid-twentieth century modern work by South Africa’s best-known artists at auction including Edoardo Villa, Maggie Laubser, Sydney Kumalo and Irma Stern were also on offer. The top lot by value was, however, a contemporary work. A superb drawing by world-renowned South African artist William Kentridge. Drawing from Mine (Soho with coffee plunger and cup) (1991), sold for R5 456 640, a record for a drawing by Kentridge in South Africa.

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