'A Vigil of Departure – Louis Khehla Maqhubela: A Retrospective 1960-2010' (2010)

'A Vigil of Departure – Louis Khehla Maqhubela: A Retrospective 1960-2010' (2010)From the publisher: The thrust behind this exhibition and catalogue is to assess Louis Maqhubelas contribution to the history of South African art and to remind South Africans many of whom have never heard of him, and others who have forgotten him of a great artist who had success early in his career (in spite of the hostile environment created by the apartheid government), whose work changed dramatically after he travelled abroad, and who continues

“Knocked down by the system”) characterise this

1991) lives and works in Cape Town

Lubabalo Nkobo and Thorne Oliver

1964) is an award-winning South African author and journalist

a narrow kitchen

he has said that this work “deals with [his] sense of dislocated national identity

moving image

Auto Drawings

2012) published widely on South African art and curated a number of major exhibitions

loving his subject

Goldendean is a genderqueer trans media artist provoking dialogue about the gaze

“While violent motion is depicted in the brush strokes and paint-work