Morné Visagie
To Join the River of Hours, the Sea of Years (Cobalt), diptych
About the SessionThe Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees Benefit Auction forms an integral part of Strauss & Co’s ongoing partnership with one of South Africa’s leading arts festivals. Now in its fifth year, the auction reflects a shared commitment to supporting the visual arts and creating meaningful opportunities for artists and collectors. Held at Stellenbosch Town Hall and accompanied by a curated preview exhibition, the auction brings together works by both emerging and established artists. Its intention is to encourage new and seasoned collectors to engage with and invest in South African art, while expanding the market and improving access to the work of leading local artists. At its core, the auction places artistic excellence at the centre while seeking to create greater visibility and recognition for contemporary artistic practice.
LOT 55
Morné Visagie
To Join the River of Hours, the Sea of Years (Cobalt), diptych
About this Item
each signed, dated and inscribed with the title in pencil on the reverse
Notes
Morné Visagie was born in 1989 and is an artist, printmaker and curator who lives and works between Cape Town and Amsterdam. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (2011) and Master of Fine Art (2019) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, and is currently a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. Visagie spent the first years of his life on Robben Island, where his father worked as a warder, and his practice is a sustained meditation on the sea as a physical and psychological landscape. Interweaving childhood memory with history, literature and film, he explores water, the swimming pool and the changing room as sites in queer literature and art, and more recently the histories of ocean crossings undertaken by those fleeing war and persecution. His abstracted works give primacy to colour and materiality. Solo exhibitions include shows at WHATIFTHEWORLD (2013, 2015, 2016), Fovntain at Smith (2018), Die Bloue Wis at Nuweland Gallery in the Netherlands (2018) and A Sinless Season at Everard Read, Cape Town (2023), and his work has also been shown at AKAA Paris, 1-54 London and Volta Basel.
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