Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Obtained as part of a larger group of prints (2013.266- 283) from The Artists' Press (The Artists' Press, Waterboard Farm, White River, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa).

Koloane's work is obliquely if not explicitly social and political; dogs caught in struggle, or here, in the aftermath of some play around dominance, were a vital motif for him in the 1990s.
He is also a consummate graphic artist; this image is viscerally effective; it makes creatures and their antagonism uncomfortably present; we then ask what their presence in this stark and seemingly uninhabited landscape is intended to suggest.

Event Date 7/3/2014
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Five colour lithograph by David Koloane, inscribed, signed and dated by the artist. Titled 'Mgodoyi III', 1993. Edition 19/20. Condition: Excellent
Event Date 7/3/2014
Author: maa