Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 28 75 GERHARD MARX SOUTH AFRICAN 1976– Circuit signed, dated 2012 and numbered 2/6 in pencil in the margin collagraph sheet size: 108 by 204,5 cm; image size: 79 by 172 cm R20 000 – 25 000 Gerhard Marx was born in 1976 and received his MA in Fine Art from the University of the Wit-watersrand. He is an artist, theatre director, and filmmaker. In his visual art practice, Marx works across a number of media, including drawing and printmaking. Working with fragmented and collaged image, his drawings reveal a sensitivity and acute attention to detail. In 2009 he and Kentridge created Firewalker, a large sculpture for the foot of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge in Johannesburg. Marx’s recent theatre productions have included They Say , for the Aardklop Na-tional Arts Festival, which was the winner of the Bravo Award for Most Memorable Moment at the festival, and Rewind: A Cantata For Voice, Tape and Testimony , with an interactive film by Gerhard and Maja Marx and music by Philip Miller. Marx has received fellowships from the Ampersand Foundation and the Sundance Film Festival.