Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 14 March 2016

Session 3

Sold for

ZAR 147 784
Lot 423
  • Vivienne Koorland; House Sutra: From Cape Town to Kathmandu


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 147 784

About this Item

South African 1957-
House Sutra: From Cape Town to Kathmandu

signed, dated 2006 and inscribed with the title

oil on canvas
81 by 91cm excluding frame

Notes

'In House Sutra: From Cape Town to Kathmandu, the tentative linear form of the house is stranded in a sea of black paint peppered with star/flower like fragments of pasted canvas. Painted along the bottom edge, the words 'From Cape Town to Kathmandu' familiar from other works, bring the world of migrations and meanderings into the fragile dream-space of home.'

'House Sutra: From Cape Town to Kathmandu, 2006, presents a schematic image of a house, filled with white lines in a childlike scrawl. A repeated motif in Vivienne Koorland's paintings, the house floats against a tar-black background, suggesting spatial insecurity and disorientation. That fragmented effect is emphasized by the canvas's stitched - together surface, atop which are glued scintillating pieces of coloured canvas, evenly distributed, evoking flowers or falling snowflakes. As a comforting image of a home built from ruins, it appears to salve an ache; but the reality of dislocation that informs Koorland's practice - she grew up in South Africa and now resides in New York - is never far away.

TJ Demos. (2007) Vivienne Koorland: Freud Museum http://www.viviennekoorland.com/images/exhibit_1264709041.pdf [19th January 2016]

Exhibited

Freud Museum, London, Reisemalheurs (Travel Woes), 2007

Literature

Tamar Garb. (2007) Vivienne Koorland: Reisemalheurs (Travel Woes). London: Freud Museum, illustrated in colour on page 17. Page 18:

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