18 OCTOBER 2018 VENUE | Aspire Art Auctions, Illovo Edge, Building 3, 7 Harries Road, Illovo TIME | 19H00 PLEASE NOTE: This auction is subject to Aspire Art Auction’s conditions of Business and reserves as may be found at https://aspireart.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Aspire-Terms.pdf
THE STATE OF THE ART INVESTMENT MARKET Aspire is pleased to welcome parents, friends and supporters of King David Primary School Victory Park to our offices for what is set to be an evening containing all the ingredients for a sensory explosion – inspiring art, sensitive music, socialising, delicious food and some scintillating alcohol tastings. In addition to the sensory richness that fine art brings to life, the art market continues to shine as an investment option. The attractive returns on art over the last few years have outperformed many other investments and the art market has become an independent, liquid and efficient market on all continents. Along the way it has resisted the fallout from global crises such as 9/11 and the financial crash of 2007-8, proving its resilience. The consistent growth in the art market over the last 20 years has also been fuelled by other factors. There has been a rapid increase in the art-buying population from roughly 500,000 after 1945 to approximately 90 million in 2018; there has also been a significant reduction in the average age of market players, including buyers, and a major geographical expansion of the market to nearly all of Asia, the Pacific Rim, India, South Africa, the Middle-East and South America. Global auction turnover on fine art rose 18% in the half year to June 2018, totalling $8.45 billion, according to ArtPrice. The market grew on all continents, with a massive 48% increase in turnover in the USA, to $3.3 billion. The other major markets followed suit, with $2 billion in turnover in China, which is a relatively isolated market, and turnover up 18% in the UK to $1.9 billion. As Artprice also points out, another massive market driver is the way in which the museum industry had changed. More museums opened between 2000 and 2014 than in the previous two centuries – some 700 new museums per year! The same process has gone on in South
Africa, while obviously on a much smaller scale, with the recent opening of the Zeitz MOCAA museum and the Norval Foundation in the Cape, and the impending opening of the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria. While it is too early to tell, we might expect the same effect in the South African market as has been the case worldwide – that the hunger of museums for top-quality works will be a driver of growth. While globally the average value of artworks in the historic, modern and contemporary segments has averaged a 25% increase, we at Aspire Art Auctions, a dynamic local auction house, have seen spectacular performances for better-known signatures. We realised a world record of R1,9 million in November 2017 for Mythological Rider (1970) by Sydney Kumalo, and a South African record price of R5,5 million was fetched for a William Kentridge drawing, Drawing from Mine (Soho with coffee plunger and cup) (1991), also in November last year. Kentridge also features on Aspire’s upcoming auction sale in October, with another of the drawings for projection, Drawing from Stereoscope (Double page, Soho in two rooms) (1999). Aspire Art Auctions will hope to capitalise on Kentridge’s stellar profile in the wake of his critically acclaimed performances of The Head and the Load at the Tate in London this year, and will hope to take advantage of the currency fluctuation of the Rand against the Pound and Dollar in attracting international collectors.
Ruarc Peffers Managing Dairector, Aspire Art Auctions
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FOREWORD FROM KDVP PRIMARY SCHOOL
Art is no longer the territory of the cultured few. Art is now the language of the future. As schools prepare their students for the 21st Century; creativity, collaboration, self-expression and innovation are skills that the world will demand of them if they are to succeed. We can no longer be content with an education focused solely on numeracy and literacy, despite their critical importance. We now embrace the arts, promote the arts, and value the arts as a modality which is critical to the future preparedness of our students. It is in this light that Cultivate was conceived. An art auction and sale used not only to raise funds, but an art event to promote the arts amongst our student and parent bodies. Cultivate has been an annual launch pad, an event with accompanying workshops, speakers and outings for our students to appreciate and experience the power of art. This year the funds from the event will appropriately be channelled into the building of our 21st Century Hub. A place where technology and creativity will meet to inspire and empower the next generation. We thank you for your support, partnership and appreciation of art.
Rabbi Ricky Seeff Director of KDVP Primary School
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LOT 1
Nelson Makamo
Untitled 2018 pastel and charcoal 100 x 70 cm R60 000 - 80 000 Known for his vibrant portraits set in pulsating African urbanized landscapes, Nelson Makamo is a celebrated, young South African artist. His work forms part of collections of fashion mogul Georgio Armani, musician Annie Lennox and TELKOM, inter alia. He works as a full time artist from his studio in the heart of the city of Joburg, a space he deems to be the most sacred place in the world.
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Phillemon Hlungwani
Munduku swita antswa kutlula namautla (tomorrow will be better than today) charcoal and pastel on paper 42 x 61 cm R60 000 - 80 000 Phillemon Hlungwani is known predominantly for his large scale charcoal drawings depicting scenes from rural life and both formal and informal settlements. Based at the Artist Proof Studio, the prestigious Ampersand Foundation Fellowship sponsored him on an extensive tour of printmaking studios in the United States. Along with being a finalist of the ABSA Gallery competition 2001, 2002 and 2009, other awards include King Korn competition (2000 and 2001) and the SABC radios Station Munghana Lonene FM Log Design Award (2003).
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LOT 3
Norman Catherine
Cattus Caput 2018 oil on wood 325 x 150 x 37 mm R25 000 - 35 000 Norman Catherine is one of South Africa’s leading contemporary artists, having earned a solid reputation as critic of the apartheid regime, and educator and promoter of black artists. Throughout his career, he has had 25 solo exhibitions, the most recent at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. As both a sculptor and painter, Catherine works in an assortment of media ranging from oil, acrylic, watercolour and airbrush to wood, fibreglass, wire and metal.
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LOT 4
Themba Khumalo
Landscape 2018
charcoal and pastel 50 x 70 cm R10 000 - 15 000
Themba Khumalo graduated from Artist Proof Studios in printmaking, where he obtained a Design Foundation Certificate. He went on to do a professional printmaking development course at Artist Proof Studio in 2009 where he was an intern in the silkscreen unit and special project team. Khumalo is interested in exploring different mediums, such as printmaking, charcoal drawings and painting. He has been involved in a number of group exhibitions, commissions and special projects, such as painting murals in the Eastern Cape and being invited to exhibit in a group show at Isolatedel Cinema festival in Rome, Italy.
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LOT 5
Candice Kramer
Turquoise Man Hiding 2018 print and oil paint on steel 74 cm diameter R10 000 - 15 000 Born in Johannesburg, Candice Kramer holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has had two solo shows at Obert Contemporary and NIROX projects respectively, and has participated in a number of group shows. Her work is included in both private and corporate collections including Spier, Nandos, RMB and First Rand. She was selected to be on the emerging painters show at TAF 2018 and was a top 30 finalist for the SATAXI art competition. She is a mother of 3 and works as a full time artist.
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Candice Kramer
Colourful Jozi Walkers 2018 oil paint, print and varnish on steel 33 cm diameter R5 000 - 8 000
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Pat Mautloa
Mask Series 2016 acrylic on canvas 40 x 50 cm R25 000 - 35 000 Kagiso Pat Mautloa is a leading figure in contemporary South African art, being a founding member of legacy art institutions that broke Apartheid’s policies of isolation, like the Bag Factory Artist Studios, as well as Thupelo and Triangle workshops. His work studies the streetlife around him in downtown Johannesburg and eludes neat definition: he is as comfortable in abstraction as he is in more figurative imagery. Textures are an important element in Mautloa’s work, as are found objects and collage. His work is in a number of important public collections across South Africa.
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Benon Lutaaya
Thought Policing 2018 paper and collage on paper 100 x 100 cm R40 000 - 60 000 Benon Lutaaya (b. 1985) is a Johannesburg-based, Ugandan-born artist. He is best known for his provocative, contemporary paper collage portraiture paintings - unable to afford proper art supplies when he started out, Lutaaya improvised with recycled, found paper material gathered from the streets. Lutaaya’s career is punctuated with sale-out shows, artistic recognition, philanthropic work and a client waiting-list. Through his firm belief that art can confront barriers, empower dreams and change lives, he has significantly contributed to a number of worthy arty and social causes, including founding The Project Space, a cultural space founded to encourage and increasing opportunities for young female artists.
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Lucy Jane Turpin
Untitled 2018 oil on canvas 103 x 74 cm R15 000 - 25 000 Lucy Jane Turpin was born in Johannesburg in 1983. She completes her Honours Degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand and her Master’s Degree, cum laude, at the University of Stellenbosch in March 2015. Her practice focus is drawing, installation and painting. Furthermore, she has a strong interest in curatorial projects.
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MJ Turpin
Drawing for Zombies / a study of Zombie Abstraction at 4 a.m. 2017 colour screenprint and pencil on paper 75 x 110 cm R25 000 - 35 000 MJ Turpin was born in Johannesburg in 1982, where he currently lives and works. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand and he is the director of Kalashnikovv Gallery in Braamfontein. Turpin’s work examines contemporary forms of escapism such as the internet, drug addiction and religion. His work explores space and cyberspace as tools used to avoid reflecting on race, gender, class and sexual orientation in contemporary South Africa. He has exhibited at FNB Joburg Art fair, Turbine Art Fair and in a number of group shows at the Goodman Gallery, Nirox Project Space and La Gaite Lyrique, Paris among others. Turpin has also exhibited two solo shows Escape from Self and Escape From Self 2 in 2014 and 201 5 respectively at Kalashnikovv Gallery and his third solo exhibition at Hazard Gallery.
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Io Makandal
Entropy Landscape I 2018
pen, pencil, coloured pencil and tape on paper 51 x 98 cm R15 000 - 20 000
Io Makandal (b.1987) meanders through materials using marks and colours to create visual mind-scapes or alternate landscapes. Having completed her BA Fine Art at UCT (2010), she is now doing a Masters at Wits University. She has been on numerous international residencies and exhibts extensively locally and internationally.
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Softening the Edges is a series of works begun in 2011 and continuing through 2018. The title Softening the Edges refers to the literal act of rounding the corners of money, which Lieberman does to a pile of one hundred notes for each work. The work has two parts. The first is a collaboration with a participant who swaps R1000 for the pile of R10s. Then the notes are handed out, one at a time, to soften the edges of someone’s day. The basic instruction for this part of the work is that the notes should be given to people asking for money - buskers, people who load your car with your shopping, beggars etc. The second part of the work is the documentation of the process. The corners that were cut off the notes. These are framed and for all intensive purposes are the artworks.
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Kim Lieberman
Softening the Edges 2014
money on paper 140 x 16 cm R10 000 - 15 000
Kim Lieberman is a conceptual artist who honours concept above medium. Lieberman completed her undergrad degree at Wits Tech in 1997 and her MAFA at Wits University 2001. She has had eight solo exhibitions at galleries that include the Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg), Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet (Cape Town), Camouflage Art. Culture. Politics (Johannesburg), Esso Gallery (New York), and Gallery AoP (Johannesburg).
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LOT 13
Asanda Kupa
Humans went past there acrylic on canvas 80 x 100 cm R20 000 - 30 000 Asanda Kupa’s (b.1981) work is grounded by the experiences of those forced to the periphery of ‘The New South Africa’. Born in a semi-rural village in South Africa’s poorest province, the Eastern Cape, Kupa’s scenes depict the chaos and energy of life for many of South Africa’s subjugated black population, reflecting on the breadth and depth of economies of hope, hopelessness and popular protest. Raw, incisive and urgent, Kupa’s work sits in a number of important South African collections, including The Southern African Foundation For Contemporary Art and Nandos. He was the recipient of both the Ann Bryant Young Artist of the Year award (2010) and the Reinhold Cassirer Award (2013); and was recently included in 2018 Joburg Art Fair’s #FNBJAF20 - “Africa’s top 20 new and exciting talent ”.
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Bev Butkow
It Took a Little Force 2018 oil paint and thread on canvas 100 x 100 cm R15 000 - 25 000 Moving between form and disintegration, Bev Butkow explores materials deeply as a way of using making to unravel social issues. Accountant-turned artist Butkow started making art in her mid-40s and is now a fulltime artist. As part of her re-education, she is working towards a Masters of Fine Art at Wits University having completing her honours in Art History cum laude in 2017. Winner of a merit award in the 2015 SA Taxi Foundation Art Award, Butkow was voted by 2018 Joburg Art Fair as one of “Africa’s top 20 new and exciting talent”.
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LOT 15
Maja Maljevic
Block 2017
oil on canvas 91 x 71 cm R40 000 - 60 000
Maja Maljevic was born in the former Yugoslavia in 1973 experiencing a happy childhood and living a bohemian lifestyle at university, until the war in 1991 disrupted the idyll. She arrived in South Africa as a 27 year old. She says this of her eclectic work, “to capture and describe my creative process is like putting music into words - something essential gets lost in translation. I enjoy a visual ensemble that includes the figurative and the abstract, the organic and geometric, the obvious and the elusive�.
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Maja Maljevic
Cursive 2017
oil on canvas 91 x 71 cm R40 000 - 60 000
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LOT 17
Blessing Ngobeni
After Matric 1 lithograph and watercolour 62 x 84 cm edition EV1/3 R25 000 - 35 000 A multi-award winning artist, Blessing Ngobeni first ran away from home as a small boy after being whipped. He spent five years living on the streets of Alex and six years in prison, where he turned to art as a way to heal himself. Ngobeni’s unique style uses montage, paint and distorted, contorted figures to critique the political elite. Today Ngobeni has established himself as one of the leading younger figures in contemporary South African art. He is represented by the Everard Read and CIRCA galleries in Johannesburg, Cape Town and London.
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Bru’ster
Peeping Charlie 2018 acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm R15 000 - 25 000 As a child of the 60’s growing up in the 70’s, Bru’ster was exposed to the pre-digital age of advertising and the pop culture that it spawned. At this time, pop artist Andy Warhol was all the rage with his colourful screen printed graphic pieces. It is this ‘pop culture’ that Bru’ster tries to emulate in his colourful canvases. He was exposed to the works of British street artist Banksy some years ago and discovered the work of Mr. Brainwash shortly after. Bru’ster works on mostly large canvases that are purposefully colourful. He works in acrylic paint and graffiti spray cans to try incorporate another one of his passions, street art.
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LOT 19
Bevan de Wet
Plant Study II (Succulent) 2017
CMYK screenprint 42 x 59.4 cm edition 2/12 R6 000 - 9 000
Artist and printmaker Bevan de Wet (b.1985) works primarily with paper, exploring etching, relief printing, papermaking, drawing and paper folding techniques. His numerous awards include a fellowship from the Ampersand Foundation (New York 2013), Thami Mnyele Art on Paper Merit Award, 2014 ABSA L’Atelier Merit Award Winner and an ImpACT Award for Visual Art from the Arts and Culture Trust (2014). He has exhibited extensively and his work is held in a number of private and public collections including The Wits Art Museum, Nirox Foundation, the South African Embassy in Washington DC, and the Ahmanson Foundation in Los Angeles.
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Bevan de Wet
Plant Study III (Ficus) 2017
CMYK screenprint 42 x 59.4 cm edition 2/12 R6 000 - 9 000
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LOT 21
Andrew Kayser
oil and assemblage on canvas 245 x 195 cm
Hyena
R40 000 - 60 000
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Andrew Kayser
airbrush and embroidery on paper 69 x 98 cm
Silhouette
R15 000 - 20 000
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Andrew Kayser graduated in 2001 from the Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag, Netherlands and has participated in numerous exhibitions in the Netherlands and South Afica. He distils a flow of consciousness onto the surface of his work to create an absurd, ambivalent, darkly hilaroius reality. He is represented by Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg.
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LOT 23
Vusi Beauchamp
Winner oil and spraypaint on canvas 150 x 122 cm R50 000 - 70 000 Vusi Beauchamp (b. 1979) makes social critique, often controversially, through his humorous satirical multi-media paintings. He has shown extensively internationally and locally, and currently has a solo exhibition titled “Paradyse of the Damned� at Kalashnikovv Gallery in Braamfontein. He studied printmaking and painting at the Tshwane University of Technology, then Graphic Design at Damelin and has since worked as an artist, art director, and multimedia designer.
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LOT 24
Vusi Beauchamp
Cry Wolf (MMoC) 2014 acrylic, enamel and spraypaint on treated canvas 190 x 190 cm R80 000 - 100 000
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LOT 25
Craig Smith
Ubu and the Truth 2014 oil and watercolour on paper 75 x 52 cm R10 000 - 15 000 For Craig Smith, painting is a process of being lost in the moment. His paintings are the diary of an explorer, one who traverses the landscapes of popular media and strangers’ faces to the inner realm of personal memory. Smith is a self-taught artist/photographer/ designer who started in photography before becoming a full time artist.
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LOT 26
Craig Smith
After the Fire 2015 oil on panel 61 x 62 cm R15 000 - 25 000
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LOT 27
Lucy Jane Turpin
Queen of Marrakech 2018 oil on canvas 143 x 90 cm R15 000 - 25 000
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LOT 28
MJ Turpin
Chaneling the Material I bronze, granite, steel, perspex and cement 172 x 46 x 46 cm R35 000 - 45 000
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Maja Maljevic
Blue Margarita 2016
oil on canvas 230 x 165 cm R80 000 - 100 000
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