Silent auction lots
Lot 1
GWENAEL BELANGER
b. 1975, in Rimouski, Canada / Lives and works in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Chutes-Eclats (detail)
Giclée print
45.7 x 66 cm
Edition 1/5
2003
Estimate £ 500 - £ 700
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Donated by the artist, courtesy of Nettie Horn (London)
The "Chutes" series presents us with scenes where diverse objects and materials are in a state of fall. This mysterious moment - an instant frozen in time - is inhabited by the imminence of the impact.
Lot 2
JEAN-MARC BUSTAMANTE
b. 1952 in Toulouse / Lives and works in Paris
Species
Silkscreen on acetate mounted on paper
35 x 43.5 cm
Edition 48/150
1999
Estimate £ 250 - £350
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Donated by the artist, courtesy of Timothy Taylor Gallery (London)
Bustamante’s work is the perfect synthesis where past experiences merge, embodying different artistic languages that melt in a new and personal visual language. His works depict mental landscapes with a strong poetical impact.
Lot 3
CATHY JOSEFOWITZ
b. 1956 in New York / Lives and works in Geneva (Switzerland)
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
50 x 50 cm
2007
Estimate £ 400 - £ 600
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Donated by the artist
This work belongs to a series of tri-dimensional collages done between 2004 and 2008. Using oil and acrylic, and other materials, the series was developed by the artist as an "intimate diary", recalling various internal and external happenings.
Lot 4
SILIA KA TUNG
b. 1974 in China / Lives and works in London
Sing-Along Microphone
Acrylic on Perspex
30 x 30 cm
2009
Estimate £ 500 - £ 700
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Donated by the artist
The artist’s work combines positive energy with humour. Sing-Along Microphone illustrates physical and emotional organisms on a night out in a karaoke box with friends.
Lot 5
ANSEL KRUT
b. 1959 in Cape Town (South Africa) / Lives and works in London
Surprising Nose (From It Could Be Suicide…)
Ink on paper
38 x 29 cm
2004
Estimate £ 500 - £700
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Donated by the artist, courtesy of Domobaal (London)
"Nose" may mean the physical nose but also the "nose" as used by oenophiles. From the sniffer’s expression the fragrance is not distasteful; he looks pleased and quite unrepentant at his intrusion. The sniffee, while surprised in turn, is hardly outraged.
Lot 6
PETER MCDONALD
b. 1973 in Tokyo / Lives and works in London
Grunting Workshop
Acrylic gouache on paper
21 x 29.5 cm
2009
Estimate £ 1,000 - £ 1,500
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Donated by the artist, courtesy of Kate MacGarry (London)
"My painted world has no hierarchy. The characters in my paintings are 'types' as opposed to individuals. They have no eyes. Individual identity is flattened. Peter McDonald
Lot 7
PETER MCDONALD
b. 1973 in Tokyo / Lives and works in London
Imaginary Museum
Acrylic gouache on paper
21 x 29.5 cm
2009
Estimate £ 1,000 - £ 1,500
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Donated by the artist, courtesy of Kate MacGarry (London)
"“The constructed nature of our reality is acknowledged. What remains, hints perhaps, to an underlying natural order. My paintings are a personal vision and a celebration of life." Peter McDonald
Lot 8
HEATHER & IVAN MORISON
Heather Anne Peak, b. 1973 in Desborough (UK) / Ivan William Morison, b. 1974 in Istanbul (Turkey)
They both live and work in London
Study for Earthwalker (Monkeys)
Lambda print
42 x 42 cm
Edition 12/25
2006
Estimate £ 400 - £ 600
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Donated by the artist, courtesy of Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art (London)
Earthwalker is a series of photographs onto which the artists draw architectural-like structures, referring to geometry, kites, fungi growth or extra-terrestrial invasion. Like purposeful doodles, the drawings imbue the images with humour, fantasy or threat.
Lot 9
MARIELE NEUDECKER
b. 1965 in Düsseldorf (Germany) / Lives and works in Bristol (UK)
Truth is an Overrated Virtue
Photo polymer print - Spike Island Printmakers / Arnolfini
69 x 56 69 cm
Edition 40 + AP
2007
Estimate £ 600 - £ 800
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Donated by the artist
Oscar Wilde said ‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple’. Our identification with this ‘head-scan’ relates to our iconographical association with the melancholic, the soul and the afterlife. The connection with death is so immediate that it can be overlooked x-rays are taken of the living.
Lot 10
MIKA ROTTENBERG
b. 1976 in Buenos Aires (Argentina) / Lives and works in New York
w1
Graphite, acrylic, colour pencil on paper
18.4 x 23.5 cm
2008
Estimate £ 600 - £ 800
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Donated by the artist, courtesy of Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (New York)
Obliquely exploring themes of the body, labour, and systems of production, Rottenberg's drawings echo the crude yet fantastic construction of her acclaimed video installations, yet refer specifically to drawing and its possibilities.
Lot 11
MICHAL RUBIN
b. 1977 in Tel Aviv / Lives and works in New York
Rona & Felix, Herzelia
C-type print
23 x 35.6 cm
2009
Estimate £ 400 - £ 600
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Donated by the artist, courtesy of Gallery 39 (Tel Aviv)
Rubin shoots wherever she feels most inspired; following her friends and capturing “emotional landscapes” encountered throughout her travels. This was part of a project in which the artist documented her friends while pregnant in their natural surroundings.
