Wim Botha - Untitled 8 (Mercy Paintings)
Wim Botha
South African 1974-
Untitled 8 (Mercy Paintings)
2015
oil on canvas
148 by 95,5cm excluding frame; 151 by 98,5 by 5cm including frame
Provenance
Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg.
Private Collection.
Exhibited
Stevenson, Johannesburg, Wim Botha: Pietà, 18 August to 25 September 2015.
Literature
Michael P Steinberg. (2015) Wim Botha: Pietà, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: Stevenson, illustrated in colour on page 157.
In 2004 Wim Botha installed Mieliepap Pietà in the New York Cathedral of St John the Divine, a life-size, mirror image of Michaelangelo’s marble sculpture Pietà (The Pity) (1498-1499), imagining the moment when the body of Christ is taken off the cross and given to his mother Mary to cradle. Botha executed the sculpture using mieliepap, a staple carbohydrate in Africa that references the transatlantic relationship between the artist’s home and the installation sight, as maize is indigenous to North America.
Mieliepap Pietà, Wim Botha, 2004, in New York's Cathedral of St John the Divine
Botha went on exploring Michaelangelo’s monumental work, producing a large-scale bronze as well as a series of ink drawings and oil paintings with expressive mark-making and various degrees of abstraction. The present lot forms part of the Untitled (Mercy Paintings) series, a large-scale canvas with a mirrored reflection of the grieving yet serene figure of Mary, in miniature in pink holding the body of her messiah and her child.
AbstractConceptualContemporaryPaintingSouth African
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Wim Botha
South African 1974-
Untitled 8 (Mercy Paintings)
2015
oil on canvas
148 by 95,5cm excluding frame; 151 by 98,5 by 5cm including frame
Provenance
Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg.
Private Collection.
Exhibited
Stevenson, Johannesburg, Wim Botha: Pietà, 18 August to 25 September 2015.
Literature
Michael P Steinberg. (2015) Wim Botha: Pietà, exhibition catalogue, Johannesburg: Stevenson, illustrated in colour on page 157.
In 2004 Wim Botha installed Mieliepap Pietà in the New York Cathedral of St John the Divine, a life-size, mirror image of Michaelangelo’s marble sculpture Pietà (The Pity) (1498-1499), imagining the moment when the body of Christ is taken off the cross and given to his mother Mary to cradle. Botha executed the sculpture using mieliepap, a staple carbohydrate in Africa that references the transatlantic relationship between the artist’s home and the installation sight, as maize is indigenous to North America.
Mieliepap Pietà, Wim Botha, 2004, in New York's Cathedral of St John the Divine
Botha went on exploring Michaelangelo’s monumental work, producing a large-scale bronze as well as a series of ink drawings and oil paintings with expressive mark-making and various degrees of abstraction. The present lot forms part of the Untitled (Mercy Paintings) series, a large-scale canvas with a mirrored reflection of the grieving yet serene figure of Mary, in miniature in pink holding the body of her messiah and her child.
AbstractConceptualContemporaryPaintingSouth African
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