Contemporary Art

Live Auction, 16 February 2019

Contemporary Auction

Sold for

ZAR 22 760
Lot 87
  • Mack Magagane; Untitled 21, from the series …in this city


Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 22 760

About this Item

South African 1990-
Untitled 21, from the series …in this city
2011 - 2012
from an edition of 5 + 2AP
archival pigment ink on Innova Fibaprint matt paper
image size: 40 by 60cm

Notes

“I have constantly asked myself whether Johannesburg is like any other city, or a unique city of its own. What really makes Johannesburg? Is it the dark emptiness when night hits? Or the sudden energy when the sun begins to rise?”1

  1. The Market Photo Workshop. (2012) ...in this city, [Online] Available: http://marketphotoworkshop. co.za/2012/06/27/in-this-city/ [27 November 2018].

Exhibited

Another example from the edition is in the permanent collection of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA).

ROOM Gallery, Johannesburg, ...in this city, 2012.

Brundyn+, Cape Town, Living just enough, 6 February to 13 March 2014.

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