Strauss & co - 9 December 2021, Cape Town

7 Maja Marx SOUTH AFRICAN 1977– Blush 2017 signed and dated 2017 oil on incised cotton paper sheet size: 38 by 56 cm R36 000 – 50 000 PROVENANCE Kindly donated by the Artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town. ARTIST BIO Born in 1977, Maja Marx is currently living and working in Cape Town. Marx is a South African contemporary proponent of abstract art; approaching painting as an optical activation of surface. She has featured in both South African and international exhibitions, with her most recent solo exhibitions hosted with WHATIFTHEWORLD. Marx is a fellow of the Ampersand Foundation (NewYork/Johannesburg) and a participant of MAPS (Master of Art in the Public Sphere); an exchange between the Wits School of the Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa and the Ecole Cantonale d’art du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland. Since receiving her MFA in Fine Art (Cum Laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2008, her works have been included in a range of public and private collections. She has also participated in the South African Pavilion of the Venice Biennale (2013), and the ELIA Exhibition, Cuenca, Spain and Gent, Belgium (2006). ITEM NOTES Line is Marx’s experiential instrument, whether thinly splicing paper or intuitively scribing with paint, her practice always comes back to the line as a guiding tool. She uses the perspective of line to map spatial experience and mark the middle ground between Point A and Point B: from object to consciousness. BID 26