The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2022 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2022 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s

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Dan Halter

The Communist Manifesto

No reserve

Lot Closed

February 22, 05:12 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dan Halter

Zimbabwean/Swiss

b.1977

The Communist Manifesto


editioned 3 of 3 + 1AP on accompanying Certificate of Authenticity

hand-woven archival ink-jet print

150 by 77cm., 59 by 30¼in.

Framed: 162 by 90 by 5.5cm., 63¾ by 35½ by 2¼in.

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This work has been kindly donated by the artist

Dan Halter (b. 1977, Zimbabwe) is an artist whose practice is informed by his position as a Zimbabwean currently living in South Africa. His work deals with a sense of dislocated national identity, human migration and the dark humour of present realities in Southern Africa. Halter uses ubiquitous materials and engage with local popular visual strategies as a form of expression. His work often exploits the language of craft and curio in a conceptual art context. Working with Bienco Ikete, a refugee from the DRC for a number of years, together they have organised a way of weaving. 

 

The Communist Manifesto is made out of the entire text from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, one of the world’s most influential political documents. It looks analytically at the class struggle and at capitalism. Contemporary instances of communism are known as socialist market economies, practiced predominantly in China. China has also been the world’s fastest growing economy. This Chinese 100 RMB note made out The Communist Manifesto sums up this story visually.