Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

78 60 Stephen Inggs SOUTH AFRICAN 1955– Spoons signed and dated 2000 hand painted silver gelatin emulsion on 100% rag paper 107 by 119 cm R30 000 – 50 000 LITERATURE Art Works in Progress, Journal of the Staff of the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Volume 6, 2001, Cape Town: Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Illustrated in black and white on page 42. Stephen Inggs. (2011) 665: Making Prints with Light, Cape Town: Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Another example from the edition is illustrated on page 60. ITEM NOTES ‘This work continues from a previous project, the Stanford series, in its use of found objects as emblems of transience; exploring their history, cultural residue and meaning. The images form part of my personal experience. They are humble, trivial objects derived from material culture and nature: enamel jugs and plates, tarnished spoons, vegetable and zoological detritus.’ 1 ‘Rhopography (from rhopos , trivial objects, small wares, trifles) is the depiction of those things which lack importance, the unassuming mate- rial base of life that importance con- stantly overlooks, the ordinariness of daily routine and the anonymous, creatural life of the table.’ 2 1. Stephen Inggs. (2001) ‘Continuum’, in Art Works in Progress, Journal of the Staff of the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Volume 6, 2001, Cape Town: Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Page 40. 2. Norman Bryson. (1990) Looking at the Overlooked . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Page 61.