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Michael MacGarry

South African 1978- 


Michael MacGarry (b. 1978 Durban, South Africa) is a multi-award winning visual artist and filmmaker based in Johannesburg. He holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he is currently a PhD. candidate (History of Art). MacGarry is a fellow of the Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) at the University of Cape Town and a recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2010. Michael has exhibited internationally for more than ten years including TATE Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, Kiasma Museum and Iziko South African National Gallery. He has published four monographs on his work. As a filmmaker, Michael has written and directed seven short films, having featured on more than 30 international film festivals and is a recipient of an El Ray Award - Excellence in Narrative Short Filmmaking (Barcelona Film Festival 2015), a finalist for the Huysmans Young African Filmmaker Award 2015 (Belgium) as well as Jury Awards from 19th VideoBrasil (Sao Paulo), K3 Internationales Film Festival (Austria) and 13th International Festival Signes de Nuit (Paris).

Michael’s political and poetic oeuvre is realised across a diverse range of media - including sculpture, photography, installation and film. His focus is on the tension between marginalised and so-called centralised narratives; the postmodern micro and the modern macro in spaces where contemporary life is in a state of invention and flux.

Image source: https://zeitzmocaa.museum/artists/michael-macgarry/


14 lots offered      64.29% sold      ZAR 496 906
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Michael MacGarry; Axe Guitar
12 Aug 2024
Starting at ZAR 7 000
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Michael MacGarry; Gas Pump Machine Gun
8 Jul 2024
Sold for ZAR 10 553
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Michael MacGarry; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
10 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 12 898
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Michael MacGarry; Hou My Vas Korporaal, Rhetorical Structures Series
12 Jun 2023
Sold for ZAR 9 380
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Michael MacGarry; Long Youth
21 Sep 2022
Sold for ZAR 34 140
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Michael MacGarry; Subject/Object
17 May 2021
Sold for ZAR 54 624
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Michael MacGarry; For Most of the Many, Much of the Time
17 May 2021
Sold for ZAR 159 320
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Michael MacGarry; Unit IV
16 Sep 2019
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
 
Michael MacGarry; LHR-­JNB
17 Feb 2018
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
 
Michael MacGarry; Satrap IV
13 Nov 2017
Sold for ZAR 68 208
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Michael MacGarry; The Wanderer
13 Nov 2017
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000
 
Michael MacGarry; AK47
5 Jun 2017
Sold for ZAR 68 208
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.