6th Mar, 2024 18:00
20th Century & Contemporary Art
56
Guy Tillim (South Africa 1962-)
Feliciano Sachova and Marcolino Kosenge (from the Kunhinga Portraits series)
archival pigment inks on cotton paper
Artwork date: 2002
Signature details: signed, dated, numbered 3/12 and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin
Exhibited: Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, 'Guy Tillim: Kunhinga Portraits', 18 June to 19 July 2003, an example from the edition exhibited.
Literature: 'Guy Tillim: Kunhinga Portraits'. (2002). [exhibition catalogue]. Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. illustrated in colour on p.1.
archival pigment inks on cotton paper
Artwork date: 2002
Signature details: signed, dated, numbered 3/12 and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin
Exhibited: Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, 'Guy Tillim: Kunhinga Portraits', 18 June to 19 July 2003, an example from the edition exhibited.
Literature: 'Guy Tillim: Kunhinga Portraits'. (2002). [exhibition catalogue]. Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. illustrated in colour on p.1.
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sheet size: 60 x 76 cm; framed size: 74 x 89 x 3 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Johannesburg.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
South African photographer Guy Tillim, recipient of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Prize in 2017, has traversed the African continent, documenting significant historical and societal transformations. In February 2002, in the Angolan province of Bie, near Kuito, Tillim captured the Kunhinga portraits, depicting displaced individuals. These subjects had fled their homes in anticipation of the Angolan government's efforts to clear regions where civilians had offered cover for UNITA soldiers, in the months leading up to the end of the civil war. They had undertaken a five-day journey from Monge to seek refuge in the small town of Kunhinga, taking advantage of safe havens provided by foreign agencies in the area. The colour portraits mark a departure from Tillim's usual black-and-white reportage-style photographs.[1]
[1]. Stevenson.info (2024). Exhibitions. [online]. https://archive.stevenson.info/exhibitions/kunhinga/kunhinga.htm. Accessed 5 February 2024.
COLLECTIONS:
The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris; Gordon Schachat Collection, Johannesburg; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town and the Sasol Corporate Art Collection, Johannesburg.
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Auction: 20th Century & Contemporary Art, 6th Mar, 2024
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