Kindergarten, diptych
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 175 875
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Ruby Swinney
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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