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Auction archive: Lot number 13

Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse

Photographs
1 Nov 2018
Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$78,066 - US$104,088
Price realised:
£68,750
ca. US$89,450
Auction archive: Lot number 13

Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse

Photographs
1 Nov 2018
Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$78,066 - US$104,088
Price realised:
£68,750
ca. US$89,450
Beschreibung:

◆ 13 ULTIMATE MAGNUM Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse Follow Windows, Ponte City 2008-2010 Unique polyptych, comprising 84 archival pigment prints, printed 2018. Each image: 26.6 x 40 cm (10 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) Each frame: 34.6 x 47 cm (13 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.) Overall: 252.2 x 586 cm (99 1/4 x 230 3/4 in.) Signed in ink, printed title, date and number 1/1 on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity. This polyptych is unique. Each print is number 1 from the edition of 1 + 1 AP. The AP edition is only available as the complete set of 636 Windows prints. From the 1/1 edition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art holds 81 prints, Centre Pompidou, Paris, holds 60 prints and Guggenheim Foundation holds 12 prints. This is the first auction offering of a major work from this seminal series.
Condition Report Sign up or Log in Exhibited Ponte City , New Discovery Award exhibition, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, 4 July - 18 September 2011, others Ponte City , The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 15 September - 25 November 2012, others Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and SFMOMA, San Francisco, 21 February - 29 June 2014, others Ponte City , LE BAL, Paris, 23 January - 20 April 2014; FOMU, Antwerp, 27 June - 11 November 2014; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 6 December 2014 - 26 April 2015, others Ponte City , Deutsche Börse Photography Prize exhibition, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 17 April - 7 June 2015; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 20 June - 20 September 2015, others The Memory of Time , National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 3 May - 13 September 2015, others Magnum Manifesto , ICP, New York, 26 May - 3 September 2017, others Ex Africa , Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Rio, São Paulo and Brasília, 11 October 2017 - 21 October 2018, others Literature M. Subotzky & P. Waterhouse, Ponte City , Göttingen: Steidl, 2014, pp. 15-19 Catalogue Essay Ponte City, the distinctive circular tower with a hollow central core, is the tallest residential building in Africa. It was built in 1976 in Johannesburg as a home for the white middle class. Post-apartheid, the building attracted people relocating from townships followed by immigrants from other African countries. By 2000, decline and neglect had led Ponte to become a symbol of urban decay. In 2007, it was bought by developers who evicted half of the tenants for an ambitious regeneration project, which had failed by late 2008, leaving behind a semi-destructed structure. It was during this turbulent period that Ponte became the subject of a creative collaboration between South African artist Mikhael Subotzky and British artist Patrick Waterhouse. Between 2008 and 2010, the artists photographed every door, every window and every television screen in the tower block to create three distinct typologies titled Doors , Windows and Televisions , respectively. Their investigation of Ponte as ‘a place of myth, illusion and aspiration’ has resulted in over 2,000 images. The Ponte City exhibition, comprising a single installation of thousands of photographs and documents, opened at LE BAL in Paris in January 2014 then travelled to Fotomuseum Antwerpen (FOMU) in Antwerp and the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh; the accompanying book was published by Steidl (2014). For their project, Subotzky and Waterhouse won the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2011 and the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. This June, Ponte City was exhibited at Basel’s Unlimited sector for large-scale works, curated by Gianni Jetzer of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and was acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Windows, Ponte City , 2008-10, offered here, is a unique polyptych, comprising 84 individually framed photographs. Arranged to follow the exact sequence of flats in Ponte, the grid is seven rows high (Rows 49-55) and 12 columns wide. The seven rows represent the top six floors of the 54-storey building plus the rooftop. Born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa, Mikhael Subotzky is a multidisciplinary artist who works across multiple media, including photography, video, film, and most recently, painting. He was only 23 years old when he first gained recognition in 2004 for his BFA degree project on life inside the notorious Pollsmoor Prison. The project Die Vier Hoeke [The Four Corners] earned him not only the best marks ever given at the Michaelis School of Fine Art but also high praise from the art world. At 25, he became one of the youngest photographers ever to be invited to join the elite photo agency Magnum. Over the last 15 years, his work has continued to address the structures of narrative and representation, as well as the relationshi

Auction archive: Lot number 13
Auction:
Datum:
1 Nov 2018
Auction house:
Phillips
London
Beschreibung:

◆ 13 ULTIMATE MAGNUM Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse Follow Windows, Ponte City 2008-2010 Unique polyptych, comprising 84 archival pigment prints, printed 2018. Each image: 26.6 x 40 cm (10 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) Each frame: 34.6 x 47 cm (13 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.) Overall: 252.2 x 586 cm (99 1/4 x 230 3/4 in.) Signed in ink, printed title, date and number 1/1 on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity. This polyptych is unique. Each print is number 1 from the edition of 1 + 1 AP. The AP edition is only available as the complete set of 636 Windows prints. From the 1/1 edition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art holds 81 prints, Centre Pompidou, Paris, holds 60 prints and Guggenheim Foundation holds 12 prints. This is the first auction offering of a major work from this seminal series.
Condition Report Sign up or Log in Exhibited Ponte City , New Discovery Award exhibition, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, 4 July - 18 September 2011, others Ponte City , The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 15 September - 25 November 2012, others Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and SFMOMA, San Francisco, 21 February - 29 June 2014, others Ponte City , LE BAL, Paris, 23 January - 20 April 2014; FOMU, Antwerp, 27 June - 11 November 2014; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 6 December 2014 - 26 April 2015, others Ponte City , Deutsche Börse Photography Prize exhibition, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 17 April - 7 June 2015; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 20 June - 20 September 2015, others The Memory of Time , National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 3 May - 13 September 2015, others Magnum Manifesto , ICP, New York, 26 May - 3 September 2017, others Ex Africa , Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Rio, São Paulo and Brasília, 11 October 2017 - 21 October 2018, others Literature M. Subotzky & P. Waterhouse, Ponte City , Göttingen: Steidl, 2014, pp. 15-19 Catalogue Essay Ponte City, the distinctive circular tower with a hollow central core, is the tallest residential building in Africa. It was built in 1976 in Johannesburg as a home for the white middle class. Post-apartheid, the building attracted people relocating from townships followed by immigrants from other African countries. By 2000, decline and neglect had led Ponte to become a symbol of urban decay. In 2007, it was bought by developers who evicted half of the tenants for an ambitious regeneration project, which had failed by late 2008, leaving behind a semi-destructed structure. It was during this turbulent period that Ponte became the subject of a creative collaboration between South African artist Mikhael Subotzky and British artist Patrick Waterhouse. Between 2008 and 2010, the artists photographed every door, every window and every television screen in the tower block to create three distinct typologies titled Doors , Windows and Televisions , respectively. Their investigation of Ponte as ‘a place of myth, illusion and aspiration’ has resulted in over 2,000 images. The Ponte City exhibition, comprising a single installation of thousands of photographs and documents, opened at LE BAL in Paris in January 2014 then travelled to Fotomuseum Antwerpen (FOMU) in Antwerp and the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh; the accompanying book was published by Steidl (2014). For their project, Subotzky and Waterhouse won the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2011 and the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. This June, Ponte City was exhibited at Basel’s Unlimited sector for large-scale works, curated by Gianni Jetzer of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and was acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Windows, Ponte City , 2008-10, offered here, is a unique polyptych, comprising 84 individually framed photographs. Arranged to follow the exact sequence of flats in Ponte, the grid is seven rows high (Rows 49-55) and 12 columns wide. The seven rows represent the top six floors of the 54-storey building plus the rooftop. Born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa, Mikhael Subotzky is a multidisciplinary artist who works across multiple media, including photography, video, film, and most recently, painting. He was only 23 years old when he first gained recognition in 2004 for his BFA degree project on life inside the notorious Pollsmoor Prison. The project Die Vier Hoeke [The Four Corners] earned him not only the best marks ever given at the Michaelis School of Fine Art but also high praise from the art world. At 25, he became one of the youngest photographers ever to be invited to join the elite photo agency Magnum. Over the last 15 years, his work has continued to address the structures of narrative and representation, as well as the relationshi

Auction archive: Lot number 13
Auction:
Datum:
1 Nov 2018
Auction house:
Phillips
London
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