Hotel with Landscape (Spy)
| CCAC #: | 0116 |
| Artwork title: | Hotel with Landscape (Spy) |
| Artist(s): |
Robert Hodgins |
| Year made: | 1994 |
| Artwork type: | Painting |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Framed dimensions (in mm): | 898 x 1240 |
| Source: | Donated by Linda Goodman, Goodman Gallery in 1997 |
| Year acquired: | 1997 |
| Year completed: | 1996 |
| Installation type: | Movable artwork |
| Current location: | On public display |
| Exhibitions: | |
| Signage: | In this apocalyptic cityscape, Hodgins shows an inconspicuous figure (perhaps an apartheid spy) in a hat and dark glasses. He watches a Hulk-like figure with severed limbs – suggesting murder through a planted bomb. The work echoes the traumatic horrors that characterised apartheid where resistance fighters were targeted for death. |
Photographer: Ben Law-Viljoen
Photo copyright: CCT
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