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ShopIconic South African Works: Dumile Feni’s ‘African Guernica’
The artist: Dumile Feni (1942-1991)The work: African Guericna (1967) What is it exactly? Created by the painter and sculptor in 1967, the year before he would leave South Africa to live in exile, first moving to London in 1968 and later to New York in 1978,...
In praise of African art: How Shona sculpting emerged
In the act of remembering the Zimbabwean sculptor Lazarus Takawira, who died of Covid-related complications on 12 January, it is impossible not to talk about Frank McEwen, the founding director of Rhodes National Gallery (now the National Gallery of Zimbabwe) and the...