Michael Stevenson presents Anton Kannemeyer

Race, politics and related issues turned into art are showcased at Anton’s second solo exhibition

Kannemeyer confronts us with the fears that underlie these debates about race, his works possessing a frankness and humour that often leave us awkward and uncertain of our own position.

Many of the new paintings use as their starting point the gag cartoons collected from The New Yorker magazine and other sources.

Kannemeyer plays his own version of ‘caption contest’ by placing his favourite one-liners within a new socio-political context in order to highlight our attitudes and discomforts around race.

As usual, nothing escapes Kannemeyer’s - as the New York Times called it - ‘X-ray political vision’  and a series of new large-scale drawings satirises white fears surrounding the upcoming Soccer World Cup.

The gallery is open from Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00pm and Saturday from 10:00 to 13:00.

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