Strauss & co - Wits Art Museum

WITS ARTS MUSEUM ENDOWMENT AUCTION 11 2 Mikhael Subotsky (b.1981) Boat 2 Inkjet print, framed and mounted on Dibond with face-mounted toughened glass smashed by the artist 60 x 48 cm 2/5 (unique smashed) 2008 Donated by the artist R35 000 – 45 000 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Mikhael Subotsky is a rising figure in South African photography. He exhibits internationally, and his prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, and Wits Art Museum. His approach to photography is his way of questioning and understanding the paradoxical world of South Africa. Subotsky’s images of South African prisons are raw, direct, and often difficult to digest recordings of the country’s polemical post- apartheid realities. Boat 2 is an introspective self-portrait that is part of Subotsky’s exhibition Retinal Shift at the Standard Bank Gallery. A retrospective of Subotsky’s decade of photography, the exhibition examines his artistic practice and the mechanics of looking. The artist’s face and torso appear on the sail of a toy boat set on a shelf.  PD