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16/02/2023

Solo Impressions | 16 February 2023 (8 am – 10 pm)

To view and bid on artworks go to Cur8's Instagram handle .art and place your bids in the comment section. Auctions will start at 8am and conclude at 10pm thereby closing bids and finalising the sale of each artwork. Winning bidders will be contacted via Instagram and arrangements will be made for payment and collection. A bid made in the comment section for an artwork on auction is considered binding.

Artists in this auction include Patrick Bongoy, Elmarie van Straten, JP Meyer, Emily Rae Smith, Xander Ferreira, Nicole Clare Fraser, Io Makandal, Jenna Wessels and Jo Roets.

Visit the link in bio to download Cur8’s auction catalogues.

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Solo Impressions | 16 February 2023 (8 am – 10 pm)We are so excited for this week’s upcoming Cur8 Instagram auctions. De...
14/02/2023

Solo Impressions | 16 February 2023 (8 am – 10 pm)

We are so excited for this week’s upcoming Cur8 Instagram auctions. Delighting in the magic that spurs from the artistic process, Cur8’s online auctions give artists the opportunity to sell unseen art & preliminary works directly from their studio.

Following the first auction ‘Outlines/Traces’, the second and final online Instagram auction culminates in ‘Solo Impressions’, a sale of painting, sculpture & unique works from the artists’ studios.

Artists in this auction include Patrick Bongoy, Elmarie van Straten, JP Meyer, Emily Rae Smith, Xander Ferreira, Nicole Clare Fraser, Io Makandal, Jenna Wessels and Jo Roets.

To view and bid on artworks go to Cur8's Instagram handle .art and place your bids in the comment section. Auctions will start at 8am and conclude at 10pm thereby closing bids and finalising the sale of each artwork. Winning bidders will be contacted via Instagram and arrangements will be made for payment and collection. A bid made in the comment section for an artwork on auction is considered binding.

Visit the link in bio to download Cur8’s auction catalogues.

Outlines/Traces | 15 February 2023 (8 am – 10 pm)Your first glimpse into Cur8’s Online Instagram Auctions!Delighting in ...
14/02/2023

Outlines/Traces | 15 February 2023 (8 am – 10 pm)

Your first glimpse into Cur8’s Online Instagram Auctions!

Delighting in the magic that spurs from the artistic process, Cur8’s online auctions give artists the opportunity to sell unseen art & preliminary works directly from their studio.

The first of the two auctions, ‘Outlines/Traces’ is an auction of preliminary works, sketches, rough drawings, contemplative scribbles, edition prints & mixed media creations.

Artists include Fanie Buys, Ian McNaught Davis, Jeanne Hugo, Emily Rae Smith, Elmarie van Straten, Io Makandal and Eric Sher.

To view and bid on each artwork go to Cur8's Instagram handle .art and place your bids in the comment section. Auctions will start at 8am and conclude at 10pm thereby closing bids and finalising the sale of each artwork. Winning bidders will be contacted via Instagram and arrangements will be made for payment and collection. A bid made in the comment section for an artwork on auction is considered binding.

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Strauss & Co’s Johannesburg Auction week delighted bidders! With a value sell-through rate of 70%, the auction concluded...
11/11/2022

Strauss & Co’s Johannesburg Auction week delighted bidders! With a value sell-through rate of 70%, the auction concluded with an astounding netted total of R40 606 700. The top three selling lots included works by both Irma Stern and William Kentridge.

The highest-selling lot, Stern’s ‘African Woman’ (1940) is a vibrantly layered portrait of a woman, cross-armed in a polka-dot dress and colourful headscarf. Comparing this painting with another of Stern’s works “Portrait of an African Woman’ (1941), artist Marion Arnold said critically of Stern’s oeuvre:

“Many of Stern’s paintings of people from other cultures are concerned primarily with the culture rather than the individual. The essence of the person studied becomes a generalisation for the society because, although the painting is created from contact with particular models, Stern interprets according to a mental construct about the culture of origin. Thus, many of her portraits are ambivalent, possessing both stereotypical and individual characteristics,” (Marion Arnold, 1995).

‘African Woman’ however, is certainly centred on the individual. Portraying the sitter, Stern’s focus and attention to detail in each marking of her brush capture the sitter’s likeness beyond a mere resemblance – the painting also echoes personality and spirit.

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Exhibition alert!“Enter into a poetic landscape to engage with what words cannot say, being transformed by the gestures ...
08/11/2022

Exhibition alert!

“Enter into a poetic landscape to engage with what words cannot say, being transformed by the gestures at play, where room is made for recognition, surprise and even refuge.” – Everard Read

Jeanne Hoffman’s ‘Borrowed Scenery’ will open at Everard Read Cape Town this Wednesday 9 November 2022. “As a creative act, “borrowing scenery” can be described as a framing, a drawing in, of contextual distance – geographical, visual, conceptual.”

Collage is at the heart of Hoffman’s work, her paintings imbued with constellations of fragmented images, shapes and gestural marks all in conversation with one another as they overlap and merge.

“The borrowing of multiple perspectives at once, where distance cohabits with immediacy, is inherent in the very process of artmaking. Meaning is made in the movement between up-close, personal preoccupation and a stepping back, a wider angle, but it is movement that simultaneously cloaks and clarifies. Resisting traditional binaries of abstraction versus figuration, meaning is intimated in the liminal tension, at the moment just before things become certain.” – Everard Read

Visit Everard Read to explore Hoffman’s Borrowed Scenery from 9 – 26 November 2022.

Inviting bidders into the lush and fruitful season, Aspire’s ‘FULL BLOOM: Spring 22 Collection’ was host to a vibrant se...
03/11/2022

Inviting bidders into the lush and fruitful season, Aspire’s ‘FULL BLOOM: Spring 22 Collection’ was host to a vibrant selection of works from African artists.

The auction which concluded on 1 November 2022 was divided into the categories – New Frontiers, Traditional Classics, The Shape of Things, True to Form, Set in Print and Snapshots – where collectors were spoilt for choice with the sale “presenting a wide range of artworks across different mediums for easy collecting”.

Two favourites amongst bidders were Malcolm de Chazal’s painting ‘Pair of shoes’ and Peter Clarke’s screenprint ‘YOU REALLY MUST COME SOMETIME’ – both selling well above their estimates.

De Chazal’s bright and naive painting exceeded its original estimate of R10 000 - R20 000, reaching R64 488 at the sale; while Clarke’s illustrative print’s final hammer price resulted in R42 210, far greater than its estimated R10 000 - R15 000.

With such exciting results, we look forward to Aspire's next sale ‘20th Century & Contemporary Art’ at the end of this month.

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Following Patrick Bongoy’s mesmeric show, ‘Unseen Dimensions of the Known’ at Southern Guild, the gallery has opened a n...
31/10/2022

Following Patrick Bongoy’s mesmeric show, ‘Unseen Dimensions of the Known’ at Southern Guild, the gallery has opened a new exhibition of fascinating sculptural works.

His second solo with the gallery, multidisciplinary artist Stanislaw Trzebinski’s presents ‘Solastalgia’. Foreign biomorphic forms encapsulate this new body of work. Organic and colourful, Trzebinski’s sculptures are otherworldly. Their bases, strange ovum-shaped bodies, reaching above with spindling limbs that carry decorative bulbs – like stems holding flowers. Elaborating on the title, Trzebinski poignantly explains:

“I’ve been experiencing what environmental philosopher and sustainability professor Glenn A. Albrecht calls solastalgia. A nostalgia for the loss of places that used to give me solace – that made me feel fully human.”

Referencing the climate crisis, Trzebinski's functional sculpture and artworks ponder “a dark vision of nature’s continuation after the extinction of man.” As the artist states:

“We need to keep seeing the magic in the world, beauty for beauty’s sake, nature for nature’s sake – I want people to appreciate that the natural world is worth fighting for, not because of what it represents, but simply because it is.”

Visit Southern Guild to experience the works in Trzebinski’s evocative ‘Solastalgia’ before its conclusion on 10 November 2022.

The auction results for Sotheby’s Now & Contemporary Evening Auctions are in with results exceeding expectations. Hot on...
24/10/2022

The auction results for Sotheby’s Now & Contemporary Evening Auctions are in with results exceeding expectations. Hot on the heels of Frieze, the two sales are the best the auction house has seen in several years.

James Sevier, head of contemporary art for Europe at Sotheby’s said of the sales, “There was great energy in the room and overall the energy has been great throughout the week. We’re really pleased with the results.”

Sotheby’s Now & Contemporary Evening Sales Combined:

Total: R 2,000,448,909 with 98% sold

Rand Total: R 1,978,168,465

Composition of Results: 40% above/ 38% within/ 11% below estimates

Aggregate Low Estimate: R 1,052,518,304

Aggregate Hammer: R 1,711,191,714

Hammer Ratio: 1.62

Average Lot Value: R 41,296,226

The top three lots sold across the two auctions were the groundbreaking 20th-century works by Francis Bacon (Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes), Gerhard Richter (192 Farben) and Frank Auerbach (Head of J.Y.M.).

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Step into a capsule frozen in time…We are SUPER EXCITED for our two upcoming Cur8 Experiences in collaboration with Mura...
20/10/2022

Step into a capsule frozen in time…

We are SUPER EXCITED for our two upcoming Cur8 Experiences in collaboration with Muratie Wine Estate and MOK Gallery.

These two fine luncheons will be held in conjunction with MOK Gallery’s exhibition, ‘The Twist of Trees’. The showcasing sees artists Water Dixon, Jeanne Hugo and Dina Kuijers exhibiting together in the 17-century clay brick building of the gallery.

Guests will enjoy a walkabout of MOK Gallery led by the artists before they indulge in a delectable three-course meal, whilst delighting in a tasting of Muratie’s most celebrated wines. There to enlighten our guests to the extraordinary history of Muratie, Rijk Melck wine-maker and owner of the estate, will share with the table the land’s heritage and powerful history of Ansela van de Caab and Laurens Campher.

The events will take place at the Manor House at Muratie Wine Estate on 28 October & 4 November 2022. There are only ten seats per table, so book yours now at link in bio!

Cur8 Art News is here and what a month it has been! Here are a few highlights on art events and happenings to look forwa...
18/10/2022

Cur8 Art News is here and what a month it has been! Here are a few highlights on art events and happenings to look forward to this October. From awards and new galleries to exhibitions and fairs – we have you covered with the latest insights to keep you in the know.

Find out more in this month’s Cur8 Newsletter as we dive into the art of the meme, focus on this month's auctions, and reveal our must-see booths in upcoming international art fairs.

For all the latest information on art fairs, exhibitions, auctions and artists follow the link in our bio to sign up and receive our Cur8 Newsletter.

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Opening yesterday at Muratie Wine Estate, MOK Gallery’s exhibition ‘The Twist of Trees’ celebrates the rich and courageo...
17/10/2022

Opening yesterday at Muratie Wine Estate, MOK Gallery’s exhibition ‘The Twist of Trees’ celebrates the rich and courageous story behind the history of the vineyard.

Exploring the essence of turning wounds into wisdom, artists Water Dixon, Jeanne Hugo and Dina Kuijers have come together for this explorative & immersive showcasing. “Through the firing of ceramic bodies, ink staining of silk and etching of charcoal ash onto paper, the artists take a calm repose and reflect on the aesthetics of adversity and becoming fully immersed in one’s body.”

Once home to Ansela van de Caab, a woman born into slavery in the Cape Castle, the three clay brick chambers of MOK Gallery date back to the 17th-century. Ansela’s story of unimaginable hardship and perseverance begins the rich history of Muratie and inspires this exhibition.

Curated by Jeanne Hugo, each artist brings to the exhibition a sense of introspection, a reflective contemplation on life, womanhood and the often challenging obstacles that we are each presented with.

Visit Muratie and immerse yourself in this delicate yet utterly moving exhibition. ‘The Twist of Trees’ runs from 16 October – 22 November 2022.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the 1-54 Contemporary African art fair returns to Somerset House this October hosting ...
14/10/2022

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the 1-54 Contemporary African art fair returns to Somerset House this October hosting 50 international exhibitors across 21 countries. Berman Contemporary, Kalashnikovv Gallery and WHATIFTHEWORLD will be the South African galleries participating in the much anticipated three-day event.

Presenting 130 artists, the fair will be showcasing "works from established artists such as Ibrahim El-Salahi, Hassan Hajjaj, and Zanele Muholi to young and emerging artists including Sola Olulode and Pedro Neves." With our eye on our local talent, we take a look at the South African artists represented at the fair.

Participating for the third time at 1-54, Berman Contemporary is presenting three young female artists from South Africa – Amogelang Maepa, Athenkosi Kwinana and Odette Graskie. Berman Contemporary is also excited to facilitate “Drawing Sessions” - an interactive performance with Odette Graskie.

Artists Chris Soal, Athi-Patra Ruga, Asemahle Ntlonti and Ben Orkin will be represented by WHATIFTHEWORLD at this year’s fair. A brilliant array of experimental works, WITW’s booth will include art created from stained glass, toothpicks, ceramics, textiles and beads.

Kalashnikovv Gallery will be presenting Ayanda Mabulu, Isaac Zavale and Turiya Magadlela at this year’s fair. Other local artists exhibiting internationally include Cameron Platter, Themba Khumalo, Cow Mash and Hanien Conradie, Sthenjwa Luthuli and Stephané E. Conradie.

In London for the fair? Lucky you! Remember to tag Cur8 so that we can share your favourite local art finds.

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