Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 175 875
Location
Johannesburg
About this Item
South African 1992-
Kindergarten, diptych
2019
oil on silk
each 150 by 95 by 5cm, unframed
Notes
‘This work came as a response to reading William Blake’s Songs of Innocence, where I was thinking about the ‘fall’ from innocence into consciousness, from child to adult. The playground or Kindergarten is overshadowed by a massive tree signifying the tree of knowledge – something that could be seen as the violent disruptor, it’s Rorschach mirroring like a mushroom cloud. I wanted the oval play area to be surrounded by the absence of paint, the stark unknown just beyond the safety of the playground.’ —Ruby Swinney
Provenance
WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town.
Private Collection.
Exhibited
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 2019.
Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, Global Song, 6 January to 12 February 2022.
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