Claudette Schreuders (South Africa 1973-), Melancholy Boy ,2003
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Notes : Notes: Each of Claudette Schreuders’ major bodies of works encapsulates a phase in the artist’s own life. Melancholy Boy is a drawing of a Jacaranda wood sculpture produced in 2000 as part of the Burnt by the Sun series, exhibited at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York in 2001. Rory Bester notes that when Schreuders was making sculptures for the series she ‘was acutely aware of the ambivalence of many white South Africans about not belonging and not wanting to be in South Africa. This series was inspired largely by her experience during a residency in Kenya – and more especially her pale skin’s reaction to the sun, as well as her fellow artist’s reaction to sunburn. Its various works collectively mediate on fragile identities….Melancholy Boy, a redheaded boy in Y-fronts, has a Swahili inscription just above his waistline. The boy points the reader to the wisdom of belonging translated onto his body: The one who wants you to leave will not tell you so.’[1] In 2005 Schreuders also documented the Burnt by the Sun sculptures in a series of lithographs. [1] Bester, R, Hirsch, F & Krog, A. (2011). Claudette Schreuders. Johannesburg: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd. p.19. Collections: The artist is represented in numerous international collections, notably the Metropolitan Museum New York Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Condition_report : The condition is excellent. Not examined out of frame Full report available on request.
