AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AT AUCTIONS CONFIDENCE IN THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET REACHES AN ALL-TIME HIGH CAPE TOWN ART FAIR’S RISING PROFILE ART 14 LONDON, SETTING NEW HEIGHTS HASSAN HAJJAJ DAVID GOLDBLATT SIMON OTTENBERG JOACHIM MELCHERS UGOCHUKWU - SMOOTH C. NZEWI PAUL SIKA JOHN FLEETWOOD ARTUR WALTHER THE PHOTOGRAPHY ISSUE II OMENKA MAGAZINE 2 3 4 6 7 0 8 8 1 0 0 0 0 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2 Ben (Benedict Chukwukadibia) Contact Enwonwu, M.B.E +44 (0) 20 7468 8355 (Nigerian, 1917 - 1994) [email protected] ‘Snake Dance’ carved wood 141 x 20 x 20cm (55 1/2 x 7 7/8 x 7 7/8in) (including base) £50,000 - 80,000 US$83,000 - 133,000 Africa Now New Bond Street bonhams.com/africanow 2014 Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg 22-24 August To submit your application, please visit www.artlogic.co.za/fairs The deadline for applications is the 28th of February 2014. Decoration or Asset? The Art Exchange’s Products and Services include... Advisory Services Acquisition Financing Custodian & Insurance Services www.theartexchangelimited.com [email protected] +234 706 590 4800 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3 118 99 FEATURES Spot Lighting The Sanlam Food Wine Design Fair 2013 100 John Fleetwood: The Market Photo Workshop 106 Peer Conversation 114 Jude Anogwih and Adejoke Tugbiyele Art 14 London, Setting New Heights 118 Cape Town Art Fair’s Rising Profile 124 5 OMENKA MAGAZINE VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3 COLUMNS 81 ArtTactic 82 Confidence in the International Photography Market Reaches an All-time High Ask the Curator 84 Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi Letter to the Editor 87 100 DEPARTMENTS ANTENNAE 18 NEWS, EVENTS Art14 London, The Capital’s 18 Global Art Fair Returns to Olympia Grand Hall Gabrielle Alberts, This is Where 18 I leave You 28 Tian Wei, October Gallery 19 Cameron Platter, I Saw This 19 Zanele Muholi, Stevenson Gallery 20 Wim Botha, Stevenson Gallery 20 Haim Steinbach, Once Again the 21 World is Flat 6 OMENKA MAGAZINE VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3 FOCUS 23 INTERVIEWS, PROFILES Hassan Hajjaj 24 David Goldblatt 28 Paul Sika: My Work is a Work of Love 40 MARKET FILE 47 COLLECTOR, AUCTIONS, GALLERY Bomi Odufunade in Conversation with 48 Simon Ottenberg The Walther Collection 54 Highlights of Bonhams South African Sales in 60 2013 Auctions African Contemporary Photography at 62 Auctions Portrait of a Gallery: Joachim Melchers, 66 Gallery Owner and Publisher 40 70 LIFESTYLE Zegna: The Art of Clothing 70 Destination Lagos 74 Nectar of the Gods 79 REPORTS 91 REVIEWS Frieze, Frieze Masters, 1:54, Art Basel Miami, 92 FIAC and Outsider Artfair Choices, 11th Edition of Frieze Art Fair 96 93 London 7 OMENKA MAGAZINE VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2 2003 - 2013 The Foundation was established in 2003 in honour of celebrated Nigerian artist, Prof. Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu MBE, NNOM (1917-94). Through exhibitions, education and public debate, our mission is to increase the global perception and appreciation of modern and contemporary African art LONDON’S Featuring over 180 modern and contemporary GLOBAL ART FAIR galleries from 40 countries GALLERIES Art on 56th, Lebanon \\ the A·lift, Hong Kong \\ Advanced Graphics London, UK \\ Aki Gallery, Taiwan \\ Aktis Gallery, UK \\ Albemarle Gallery, UK \\ Alif Gallery, UAE \\ All Visual Arts, UK \\ Andipa Gallery, UK \\ Arario Gallery, South Korea / China \\ Art Sawa, UAE \\ ArtChowk, Pakistan \\ ArtCo Gallery, Germany \\ Arthouse – The Space, Nigeria \\ Artspace, UAE / UK \\ Athr Gallery, Saudi Arabia \\ Atlas Gallery, UK \\ Beaux Arts, UK \\ Beers Contemporary, UK \\ Jack Bell Gallery, UK \\ bo.lee, UK \\ CCA Galleries, UK \\ Circle Culture Gallery, Germany \\ Coates and Scarry, UK \\ Contemporary Indonesian Art, Indonesia \\ Crane Kalman Brighton, UK \\ Cynthia-Reeves, USA \\ Dam Gallery Berlin | Frankfurt, Germany \\ Dark Matter Studio, UK \\ Delhi Art Gallery, India \\ Dillon Gallery, USA \\ Galerie Robert Drees, Germany \\ Eleven, UK \\ The Empire Project, Turkey \\ EOA.Projects, UK \\ Faur Zsófi Gallery, Hungary \\ Fehily Contemporary, Australia \\ FeldbuschWiesner, 2003 - 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Art Projects, Singapore \\ Tiwani Contemporary, UK NOT-FOR-PROFIT Daegu Art Museum, South Korea \\ Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia \\ Delfina Foundation, UK \\ Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK \\ Ikon Gallery, UK \\ Iniva, UK \\ Modern Art Oxford, UK \\ Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, UK \\ Royal Academy of Arts, UK \\ Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture Project, China \\ University of the Arts London, UK \\ Whitechapel Gallery, UK \\ Zabludowicz Collection, UK / Finland / USA Subject to change artfairslondon.com OMENKA MAGAZINE VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2 CONTRIBUTORS Bomi Odufunade Anders Petterson Nana Ocran Bomi Odufunade is Anders Petterson is Nana Ocran is a the London and New a leading authority London-based writer York Editor for Omenka on the art market, and editor specialising magazine, She is also a with a particular focus in contemporary African writer and consultant at on the modern and culture. She was Editor-in- Dash & Rallo Art Advisory, contemporary emerging Chief for the Time Out a bespoke international consultancy specialising