Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

106 83 David Goldblatt SOUTH AFRICAN 1930–2018 On the Farm Rooinek, Seweweekpoort, Western Cape, 18 February 2006 (4_9758) signed, dated 18/2/2006 and numbered 3/10 in pencil in the margin digital print on 100% cotton rag paper image size: 98,5 by 125 cm R300 000 – 400 000 ITEM NOTES ‘Goldblatt’s colour photographs are an ongoing exploration of the intersections between people, values and land in post- apartheid South Africa. … In these photographs Goldblatt focuses on the expansive South African landscape, often incorporating elements that remind us of the lingering idiocies of apartheid and the ironies of the new South Africa. In On the Farm Rooinek, Seweweekpoort, Western Cape, 18 February 2006 , Goldblatt looks at our intervention and settlement in an arid landscape of the great- er Karoo. A roughly-made square stock enclosure, a long-drop and patches of green fields remind us of the harsh and precarious existence that constitutes life in this extreme landscape.’ 1 1. Stevenson. (2006) David Goldblatt , [Online] Available: http://archive.stevenson.info/ exhibitions/season2006/goldblatt1.htm [7 December 2018].