Artists are delving more into exploration of how proximity, reworkings of style and even colour influence their work.
Now based in Berlin, South Africa’s ‘poet of street art’ is back home with an exhibition that signals his intent to keep ‘flipping’ the art world.
Incognito, he uses South Africa’s streets as his canvas – but his path to renown was international.
A kaleidoscope of African images and themes is a fitting backdrop for the debate the Jo’burg Art Fair, which opened to the public on Friday, has sparked about what it means to be African and an artist. The fair also has the art world buzzing about tensions between art and commerce.