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  • Penny Siopis, Act I Scene II. Oil on canvas, 120 x 120cm. Estimated price: R 1 800 000 - 2 200 000
    Commanding portrayals of women by a diverse artist list that includes Nandipha Mntambo, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern are among the highlights of Strauss & Co’s forthcoming live-virtual sale in Johannesburg. Due to be held over three consecutive days in May, the sale includes some noteworthy rarities: an extraordinary pre-exile casting by Dumile Feni, a very rare oil study...
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    Matriarchs of power: Strauss & Co’s May sale features outstanding portrayals of women
  • Mwangi Hutter (born in 1975 and 1964, Kenya/Germany). Circles Around Oneness (Singularly Unified) (From the Circles Around Oneness Series), 2016. Mixed media on canvas, 200 × 200cm 200×200cm 15000/20000€.
    PIASA will be holding the live auction in Paris on Wednesday, May 19 2021 For the first time in Paris in the context of a Contemporary African Art Sale, this auction will present the work of two major African-American artists: Beauford Delaney, the great African American painter of the post-war period, and Kehinde Wiley, a rising figure of painting on...
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    PIASA: Africa + Modern and Contemporary Art Auction
  • Installation view of WOMEN C(A)REATE, an apexart International Open Call Exhibition in Tehran, Iran in February 2020.
    apexart is a non-profit arts organisation in Lower Manhattan founded in 1994. They offer opportunities to curators and emerging and established artists while challenging set ideas about culture, art, exhibitions, and curation through their exhibitions, Fellowships, publications, and public programmes. Brendon Bell-Robers, Co-founder of ART AFRICA spoke to Steven Rand, Executive Director and Founder of apexart, to learn more...
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    Challenging Fellows: Steven Rand on the apexart Fellowship
  • Obsidian Samurai XXIII, 2020. Polyurethane plastic, used inner tyre tubes, stainless steel, aluminium, wood, polyurethane foam, nails, glass, epoxy resin, cotton cloth, cotton cord, cotton rope, thermoplastic, wax pigment, faux suede, beads, replica katana. Dimensions: 820 x 810 x 2060mm. Courtesy of the artist.
    Roos' pieces reflect on Africa’s historical co-dependence on global superpowers and how histories are constructed and written in our emerging inter-connected world cultures. ‘The East is a career, Benjamin Disraeli declared. An imperialistic vision, it was as accurate in 1849 as it is now – even though the world has radically changed, the East no longer the West’s lackey. Today...
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    The East is a Career: Ashraf Jamal explores the work of artist, Nicola Roos
  • This conversation featuring artist Jennie C. Jones and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum, was hosted in conjunction with the exhibition 'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America'. This conversation series highlights the practices of artists participating in the exhibition.https://vimeo.com/544616499Jennie C. Jones (b. 1968, Cincinnati, Ohio) lives and works in Hudson, New York. Her work considers...
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    Grief and Grievance: Jennie C. Jones in Conversation with Gary Carrion-Murayari
  • © Iziko Museums of South Africa
    Enjoy the freedom to choose, to participate, see, discover, and explore with Iziko Museums of South Africa. Iziko Museums will be celebrating Freedom Day, 27 April 2021, by providing visitors with the freedom to participate in one, or all, of our Freedom Day events. Join Iziko Museums for a virtual public discussion, a new exhibition virtual launch as well as...
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    Celebrate Freedom Day with Iziko Museums of South Africa!
  • Rashid Johnson, Antoine’s Organ, 2016. Black steel, grow lights, plants, wood, shea butter, books, monitors, rugs, piano, 189 x 338 x 126 3/4 in (480 x 858.5 x 322 cm). © Rashid Johnson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
    This conversation between artist Rashid Johnson and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum, was hosted in conjunction with the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America.” This public program series highlights the practices of artists participating in the exhibition.https://vimeo.com/540250094Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago, IL) is a contemporary American artist whose multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture,...
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    Grief and Grievance: Rashid Johnson in Conversation with Massimiliano Gioni
  • This conversation between artist Hank Willis Thomas and Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, was hosted in conjunction with the exhibition 'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America'. This public program series highlights the practices of artists participating in the exhibition.https://vimeo.com/536993571Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, Plainfield, NJ) works across photography, sculpture, video, and...
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    Grief and Grievance: Hank Willis Thomas in Conversation with Margot Norton
  • Méné, Family, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 121 x 151cm.
    A very sunny group show, in the grayness of our days, gives us the colour, light and comfort that we so badly need! Three African artists – Henri Abraham Univers, Prince Galla Gnohité, Méné – put love, happy vitality and sweet dreams in the spotlight. Méné, My reflect, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 94 x 122cm. MÉNÉBorn 1977, Ivory Coast. Lives and...
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    Méné: 'Time is Love' at Out of Africa Gallery
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  • Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, Boy in Detention, 2020. Acrylic and spray paint on textured canvas, 150 x 107cm. Courtesy of OOA Gallery.
    Suzette Bell-Roberts, co-founder and publisher of ART AFRICA presents her top picks for the online edition of ART X Lagos. ART X Lagos is West Africa’s premier international art fair, designed to showcase the best and most innovative contemporary and modern art from the African continent and its Diaspora. Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, Boy in Detention, 2020. Acrylic and spray paint on textured canvas,...
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    ART AFRICA presents their top 7 picks from ART X Lagos 2020
  • T. J. Lemon, From the series Oswenka, the Jeppe hostel swankers [The Jeppe hostel swankers strike a pose before a show in the hostel basement], 2000
    Aspire Art Auctions collaborated with the Photography Legacy Project (PLP) to present the first-ever dedicated auction of African photography. Bob Gosani, Mandela Boxing, 1957. Featuring an impressive collection of 126 works by 56 photographers from across the continent (including Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe), the auction opened for online bidding on 21 October and concluded on...
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    First ever African Photography Auction delivers a good punch with new records
  • Irma Stern, Swazi Girl. Oil on canvas laid down on board, 51,5 x 39cm. Estimate: R 3 000 000 - 4 000 000
    NORTH/SOUTH Live and Virtual Auction will be taking place  8-11 November 2020 Irma Stern, Swazi Girl. Oil on canvas laid down on board, 51,5 x 39cm. Estimate: R 3 000 000 - 4 000 000. From the Tasso Foundation Collection of Important South African Art assembled by the Late Giulio Bertrand of Morgenster Estate. Luxury and collectability is a hallmark of...
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    Irma Stern marine landscape leads Strauss & Co’s offering of rare and high-value lots
  • G. R. Naidoo © Baha, Mkhumbane, 1960
    The ASPIRE X PLP African Photography Auction is currently open for online bidding online until 5 November. In support of the Photography Legacy Project (PLP), Aspire Art Auctions presents a special auction of photographic works by some of the most notable South African photographers and their pan-African counterparts.In this first-ever African photography auction on the continent, a dynamic collection of ...
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    The Photography Legacy Project in partnership with ASPIRE ART AUCTIONS
  • Cameron Platter, On Set: Beware the Curves, Scene 7: La Rêve, 2005 | Estimate: R 80 000 – 120 000
    Globally, sturdy results at art auctions over the past two quarters indicate a healthy market that is holding steady in challenging times. These results reveal that art trading has continued successfully, which bodes well for the future of the art market. This spring, Aspire returns to Johannesburg with a much-anticipated auction of Modern and Contemporary art taking place on...
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    Treasures & Trailblazers: Aspire Art Auctions sets the stage for exciting sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Johannesburg
  • Siwa Mgoboza, Bitch, You Betta Werk, 2017.
    Spotlighting Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa as excitement builds for dedicated auction in Paris. Aspire Art Auctions presents a co-curated auction of Modern and Contemporary African Art in collaboration with French auction house Piasa, to take place in Paris on Wednesday, 24 June.The debut of an African based auction house presenting a dedicated sale in Europe marks an industry...
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    Aspire Art Auctions Co-Curates Auction in Paris
  • Abstractly Ours: Amel Bennys & Osi Audu While African figuration continues to dominate the headlines of contemporary art on the continent, much remains to be said about the depth of tradition and history of abstraction on the continent. Philosophically nuanced and culturally complex abstraction gives each one of us the agency to interpret and reflect personally and intimately on and...
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    Masters we need to master
  • The 77-year-old artist spoke to ART AFRICA in an all-encompassing conversation that touched on his origins as an artist, his favourite materials and the state of contemporary art in South Africa today Pitika Ntuli with one of his monumental sculptures, Madiba and the Rainbow Children, 2016. Carved out of wood. Photographer: Refilwe Modise “I started as a traditional healer, and that...
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    Pitika Ntuli
  • Aspire X Piasa excels with unprecedented offering while accessing new global markets The landmark Aspire X Piasa Auction: Modern & Contemporary African Art, took place on Friday, 14 February at OroAfrica House in Cape Town. With a curated collection of 198 artworks, the large-scale Africa-focused auction offered collectors a diversity of works (painting, photography sculpture and mixed-media) by artists from...
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    Top Results for Modern and Contemporary African Art
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