12th Nov, 2017 17:00
Historic, Modern & Contemporary Art
86
Peter Schütz (Germany 1942-2008)
Suburban Streetlight (from Suburban Landscape series)
jelutong and oil paint
Artwork date: 1983
Exhibited: Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Peter Schütz: An Eye on the World, 9 June to 16 August 2015.
Literature: Nettleton, Prof. A. (ed.). (2015). Peter Schütz: An Eye on the World. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, colour illustration on p.60.
Sold for R51,156
Estimated at R50,000 - R80,000
jelutong and oil paint
Artwork date: 1983
Exhibited: Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Peter Schütz: An Eye on the World, 9 June to 16 August 2015.
Literature: Nettleton, Prof. A. (ed.). (2015). Peter Schütz: An Eye on the World. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, colour illustration on p.60.
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40 x 43.5 x 23 cm
Notes:
German-born sculptor, Peter Schütz, relocated from Durban to Johannesburg in 1982 to take up a teaching post at the Fine Arts Department of Wits University. Schütz collected imagery from multiple sources as inspiration for his works and was also influenced by the international art movements of surrealism and pop art. His preferred medium, carving in soft jelutong wood, allowed him to create witty pieces often infused with humour and irony but that also revealed some of the sinister aspects of life under apartheid - even if through obscure metaphors.During the early 1980s in KwaZuluNatal he made a series of sculptures depicting bland urban and suburban landscapes that contradicted the portrayal of idyllic landscapes, one of the staple genres of Western traditional painting. Schütz honed his gaze through a series of tightly-focused slices of landscapes, often realised as if they were snapshots taken while travelling in a passing car. These settled on depictions of apparently unaesthetic imagery such as road sidings of the South Coast N2 highway, where a clump of aloes or a single palm tree was clamped and appeared to be held hostage in the middle of a busy traffic island in Old Fort Road.His interest in landscape as a genre continued after he moved to Johannesburg. He became interested in how residents of white middle-class suburbs such as Orange Grove chose to live protected by high walls. This work, Suburban Streetlight (1983) shows a modest house behind a high pre-cast concrete wall, in front of which stands a tall streetlight with a solid light beam, a reference to both pop art and surrealism. The wittily stark sculpture, devoid of any softening greenery, alludes to attitudes of suburban paranoia and a need for protection.
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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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