"on The Ranch" By Anton Karstel B1968
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1998 Oil On Canvas By Famous South African Artist Anton Karstel
Interesting oil on canvas by the well listed and current South African artist Anton Karstel
Anton Karstel is a South African painter who was born in 1968. His work has featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums. Anton Karstel's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging up to £4500. The current record price for this artist at auction is £4500 for "Street Scene", sold at Stephan Welz & Co., Cape Town in 2019.
Karstel deals with serious political and social issues from the vantage point of an angst-ridden white South African male, who has lived through both the pre- and post-Apartheid eras. The artist grapples with the issues from the past that burden his generation, but simultaneously identifies warning signs and trends which are emerging today and threaten a repeat of the history which he desperately wishes to put to rest.
The Faith and Beauty series reinterprets images from a black and white Nazi propaganda film which has been reappearing on the internet in recent times, promoted and followed by a young European generation disillusioned by their economic fate and embracing the perilous allure of the extreme right-wing. This series also recalls Karstel’s earlier ‘Liggaamsoefeninge’ (physical excercise) paintings. The images taken from the Nationalist government’s physical education manuals from the 1960s indirectly promoted the idea of a physically superior race. Some of the new paintings are painted and presented on a monumental scale, encircling and captivating the viewer within the shadowy world of serene, athletic and sexually charged female gymnasts.
Karstel has the following to say about his artistic practice: “I paint politically loaded subjects in an attempt to jolt the inert body of the medium. The content in my source images puts strain on the aesthetic form. I'm interested in the ethics of representation, but without moral certainty. Ethical perplexity embroils and incriminates, which helps to narrow the distance of disinterested aesthetic pleasure.”
Condition report:
Condition of both painting and frame are excellent.
Condition : Used
Manufacture Date : 1960s
Materials : Oil on Canvas
Additional Information
49162730 (AB-183613)
W: 84cm (33.1")H: 54cm (21.3")
Mid 20th Century
west Sussex , United Kingdom