Take an enriching journey around Africa by visiting the Curatorial Voices preview exhibition
By CityLife Arts Writer
Strauss & Co, Africa’s leading art auction house, invites collectors to explore South Africa and beyond through Curatorial Voices: African Landscapes, Past and Present, our landscape-themed auction of collectable art from across the African continent. Collectors can preview works in this ambitious auction from Wednesday, 14 February 2024 at Strauss & Co’s newly refurbished Cape Town gallery.
The preview exhibition gathers work that spans 175 years of art history by artists from Benin, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Zimbabwe. Artists represented in Curatorial Voices: African Landscapes, Past and Present include the celebrated abstract painter Dr Esther Mahlangu, whose much-anticipated retrospective, Then I Knew I was Good at Painting, opens to the public at Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, on 18 February 2024.
Organised by Jean le Clus-Theron and Leigh Leyde of Strauss & Co, Curatorial Voices: African Landscape, Past and Present includes much that will astonish. Cinga Samson’s 2017 painting Hliso Street V (estimate R2-3m / $105 000-157 000) is a highly important work that introduced his globally acclaimed portrait style. J.H. Pierneef’s 1929 composition Church Street, Tulbagh (estimate R1.5-2.5m / $78 500-131 000) is a culturally important street scene deriving from the artist’s peak period.