Strauss & co - 17 February 2018, Cape Town

162 Strauss & co contemporary art auction “If we think of cartography as a science or aesthetic practice that builds on the premise that corporeal reality or its imagined variant can be modelled to communicate spatial information, then Ncaphayi is in the business of teaching us how to navigate, illustrating the nature of its affective force. His work points to his interest in harnessing the power of abstract painted forms and jazz music, along with their capacity to speak to the grand and awe-inspiring world within man. The two forms share a focus on rhythm, tone, and willed intensity as potent carriers of meaning. Abstraction in painting provides him with abundant precedence in his apparent pursuit of something deeper than the everyday”. Percy Mabandu ‘Treasure Hunt’.Text accompanying the exhibition Which Way is East? at SMAC, Cape Town, 13 September to 21 October 2017. 59 Mongezi Ncaphayi SOUTH AFRICAN b1983 Treasure Hunt, diptych each signed and dated ‘17 on the reverse indian ink and mixed media on paper sheet size: 200 by 139cm each R40 000 – 60 000 EXHIBITED SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, Mongezi Ncaphayi: Which Way is East? , 13 September to 21 October 2017.