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Once banned for his work, anti-apartheid activist highlights role of politics in art

Practitioner:

Gavin Jantjes

Date:

Jun 19 2024

In 1978, while studying print-making in Hamburg, Gavin Jantjes was deemed a persona non grata by South Africa. His crime? Creating a series of prints that documented the violence and discrimination in the apartheid state, which he gathered together under the tongue-in-cheek name of a "colouring book".

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