Strauss & co - 26 - 28 July 2020, Online

86 258 Clive van den Berg SOUTH AFRICAN 1956– Johannesburg Scene II 2011 signed with the artist’s initials and dated 2011 oil on canvas 60,5 by 50 cm R30 000 – 50 000 EXHIBITED Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Soundings, In Passage , 1 to 29 October, 2011. LITERATURE Rosalind C Morris (2011) Clive van den Berg: Unlearning the Grounds of Art , Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, illustrated in colour on page 71. ITEM NOTES The current lot forms part of a group of landscapes exhibited under the title Soundings, In Passage , at the Goodman Gallery. Reflecting on this body of work, Professor Rosalind C Morris, anthropologist, cultural critic and scholar of visual studies based at Columbia University in New York City, noted the following: ‘We recognise the gestures of brush and paint, but not the genre of landscape. We are reminded of drip painting, but there is no suggestion of radical contingency. The carefully worked surface is without mannerism. And the paint adheres to the canvas in a way that evokes both its meticulous placement and the possibility that it could suddenly detach itself to float upward or fall downward.’ 1 1. Rosalind C Morris (2011) Clive van den Berg: Unlearning the Grounds of Art , Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, page 71.