Hanneke Benadé
Hanneke Benadé has an enduring quietness about her. Like a clear pool in a hidden mountain kloof, she calmly and quietly reflects the world around her. Her observations of the people that share her world are exquisitely rendered in pastel, which she has translated into print with these sublime images. Her application of drawing materials on the plates has resulted in an almost powdery feeling that one gets from chalk pastels. Hanneke Benadé's figures seem contained and content but on closer examination reveal an underlying tautness and tension. She offers little in the way of interpretation and as a viewer, one is forced to examine the images in terms of one's own references. Her work is particularly female, confident and at times subversive.
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Title: A fine weave
Medium: Single colour chine collé lithograph
Paper size: 80 x 63.5 cm
Image size: 70 x 53 cm
Edition size: 15
Price: R 9 270 (excl.VAT)
"A fine weave, of a man in profile buttoning his shirt, describes both the quality of the fabric and the person wearing the shirt." Hanneke Benadé, 2015
Title: Jeremias I
Medium: Three colour lithograph
Paper size: 51 x 70 cm
Image size: 46.5 x 48 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 7 500 (excl.VAT)
"Although I am not a collector of antique furniture I have always liked Cape country furniture of the 19th century, furniture produced in the Cape districts of that time.The character of the furniture arose from the availability of indigenous woods, simple tools and an austere outlook and a love of plain dignity. Even though this is a portrait of a man it is just as much a portrait of a Regency style chair." Hanneke Benadé, 2015
Title: Jeremias II
Medium: Three colour lithograph
Paper size: 70 x 51 cm
Image size: 65 x 42 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 7 500 (excl.VAT)
Title: Boerbok I
Medium: Single colour chine collé lithograph
Paper size: 50.5 x 40.5 cm
Image size: 35.5 x 28.5 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 4 150 (excl.VAT)
"These are portraits of goats (boerbokke). I have done several portraits of farm animals over the last eight years since moving to the platteland. These goats escaped from the neighbours and were eating grass outside The Artists' Press's studio when I was working there." Hanneke Benadé, 2015
Title: Boerbok II
Medium: Single colour chine collé lithograph
Paper size: 40.5 x 50.5 cm
Image size: 28.5 x 35.5 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 4 150 (excl.VAT)
Title: Boerbok III
Medium: Single colour chine collé lithograph
Paper size: 40.5 x 50.5 cm
Image size: 28.5 x 35.5 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 4 150 (excl.VAT)
Title: Boerbok IV
Medium: Single colour chine collé lithograph
Paper size: 40.5 x 50.5 cm
Image size: 28.5 x 35.5 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 4 150 (excl.VAT)
Title: Boerbok V
Medium: Single colour chine collé lithograph
Paper size: 40.5 x 50.5 cm
Image size: 28.5 x 35.5 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 4 150 (excl.VAT)
Portraits
"Portraits have always occupied a major part in my work. We spend much of our visual lives directing our gaze at the faces of others. Somehow every portrait I do is a self-portrait and explores themes others can relate to, a state of in-between.
I was looking at Beau Brummell's "Neckclothitania" AKA 'one of the Cloth' published in 1818 with pages of illustrations on the complicated sets of knots and bows of the cravat that Brummell favoured. This nineteenth-century necktie was Brummell's most lasting and mysterious invention.
“Once tied, the necktie should never be altered in the hope of improving its appearance; if it is ill-tied, one must start again with a fresh cravat. What the wearer is after is a curious mean between skill and pure chance. The tying of a cravat involves the rigorous removal of human agency from the final appearance of the fabric: the knot is intentional, but the folds are entirely fortuitous.” Beau Brummell
I recently dressed-up a model with a cravat around the neck and used the reference for the portrait 'Tied in a bow'. The plain linen 'neckcloth' created a soft bow at the front.
The work 'No more bobby pins' is just a simple portrait of a girl with short hair. The portrait started out as a girl's with a long braid. The composition didn't work out with the braid so I decided to 'cut her hair' and it looked better thereafter. Hair often signifies a change beyond the physical act of cutting off one's tresses. Hair is still seen as a woman's 'Crown and Glory' and by cutting it she somehow loses her sexual potency. A bobby pin is a type of hairpin or clip used in coiffure to hold hair in place.
'Gauze' and 'Gaze' can work as a diptych as well as on their own. I found an interesting play of words with the titles, while the two works communicate with each other.The English word ' gauze' referring to the gauze net skirt the woman is wearing, comes from the synonymous French word 'gaze', like the young man directing his gaze towards the woman." Hanneke Benadé 2011
Title: No more bobby pins
Medium: Six colour lithograph
Paper size: 46 x 38.5 cm
Image size: 46 x 38.5 cm
Edition size: 30
Price: R 6 200 (excl.VAT)
Title: Tied in a bow
Medium: Four colour lithograph
Paper size: 46 x 38.5 cm
Image size: 46 x 38.5 cm
Edition size: 30
Price: R 6 200 (excl.VAT)
Title: Gauze
Medium: Six colour lithograph
Paper size: 70.5 x 50.5 cm
Image size: 70.5 x 50.5 cm
Edition size: 30
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Title: Gaze
Medium: Six colour lithograph
Paper size: 70.5 x 50.5 cm
Image size: 70.5 x 50.5 cm
Edition size: 30
Price: R 7 500 (excl.VAT)
Title: Untitled
Medium: Single colour stone lithograph
Paper size: 58 x 67 cm
Image size: 38 x 48.5 cm
Edition size: 25
Price: R 5 775 (excl.VAT)
Stapeliae
"Stapelia have always fascinated me, but a friend's shared enthusiasm for the plants led me to do this series of three prints of stapelia, working from my own reference material of stapelia in flower. I do not regard myself as a botanical illustrator in any way, nor is my knowledge of plants at all extensive.
I decided that my usual subject matter could lend itself to some change, to portray this glorious indigenous carrion plant in its many varied forms was my objective."
Hanneke Benadé, 2010
Title: Stapelia hirsuta Stapelia gigantea
Medium: Six colour lithograph
Paper size: 51 x 70 cm
Edition size: 30
Price: R 6 900 (excl.VAT)
Title: Family Portrait
Medium: Six colour lithograph
Paper size: 51 x 70 cm
Edition size: 30
Price: R 6 900 (excl.VAT)
Title: Serpentine Wreath
Medium: Four colour lithograph
Paper size: 51 x 70 cm
Edition size: 30
Price: R 6 900 (excl.VAT)
Hand Coloured Lithographs
The two hand coloured prints that Hanneke Benadé has done are of the flowers and fruit of two of the trees that grow outside The Artists' Press studio in White River. The African Flame tree is indigenous to East Africa and when it flowers the landscape is set alight by the colours that it burns into the veld. The Lowveld Chestnut is indigenous to Mpumalanga and graces the granite koppies that tumble towards Mozambique. The flowers of the tree are small and yellow but it is the fruit that is magnificent. The spiky shell opens up to reveal its secret of velvety black seeds. Hanneke Benadé has captured the essence of these two trees.
Title: African Flame Tree
Medium: Hand coloured single run lithograph, chine collé
Paper size: 36.5 x 46 cm
Image size: 33 x 23.5 cm
Edition size: 18
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Title: Lowveld Chestnut
Medium: Hand coloured single run lithograph, chine colle
Paper size: 46 x 36.5 cm
Image size: 33 x 23.5 cm
Edition size: 18
Price: R 6 650 (excl.VAT)
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