Strauss & co - 20 May 2019, Johannesburg

91 185 Kim Lieberman SOUTH AFRICAN 1969– Every Interaction Interrupts the Future signed, dated 2001/5761 oil paint, silk thread and pencil on perforated postage stamp paper 63 by 182 cm R80 000 – 120 000 EXHIBITED NSA Gallery, Durban, FNB Vita Art Prize 2001 , 7 August to 8 September 2001. Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, FNB Vita Art Prize 2001. LITERATURE First National Bank (2001) FNB Vita Art Prize 2001 (text by Clive Kellner), Durban: First National Bank. Illustrated in colour on page 9. cf. Kim Lieberman (2003) Every Interaction Interrups the Future (text by RoseLee Goldberg and Rory Doepel), Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery. Similar works illustrated in colour on pages 28 and 29. Kim Lieberman’s painting, Every Interaction Interrupts the Future , was nominated for the FNB Vita Art Prize in 2001, together with works by artists Moshekwa Langa, Kathryn Smith, Clive van den Berg, Jan van der Merwe, and Robin Rhode. On sheets of unprinted perforated paper usually used for printing postage stamps, Lieberman depicts eighteen figures in silhouette. The figures are derived from photographs of family and friends and from images in books and magazines such as National Geographic . They represent different cultures and historical periods and are connected by the perforations in a geometric grid. Lieberman uses blood red, a colour she describes as ‘a very attractive colour, a magnetic compelling colour, a colour we have inside us [blood], a link to our ancestors, to our past, to our history, to the history of humankind. It is a link between all people’. 1 The oil in the paint bleeds out of the silhouette, creating an aura or energy field around each one. The number of figures, eighteen, is significant because in the tradition of Gematria, a numeric system that is a component of the Kabbalah, it refers to chai , which means life. 1. Kim Lieberman (2003) Every Interaction Interrupts the Future . Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, page 18. 187 Wim Botha SOUTH AFRICAN 1974– Coat of Arms I signed, dated ‘03 and numbered printer’s proof 1/1 in the margin etching, aquatint and mezzotint on paper 64 by 50 cm R8 000 – 12 000 From an edition of 9 with 1 artist’s proof. LITERATURE Sophie Perryer (ed.) (2005) Wim Botha: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005 (exhibition catalogue), Johannesburg: Standard Bank and the National Arts Festival. Another print from the edition illustrated on page 68. 186 Alexandra Karakashian SOUTH AFRICAN 1988– Passing Series XVIII 2012 oil on paper 75 by 103 cm R20 000 – 30 000 EXHIBITED The Black Box, Cape Town, Passengers , December 2012. 185 186 187