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Zwelethu Mthethwa is a South African Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1960. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MUSAC Le贸n have featured Zwelethu Mthethwa's work in the past.Zwelethu Mthethwa's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 22 USD to 35,105 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 35,105 USD for A Woman with Angels, sold at Strauss & Co., Johannesburg in 2011. Zwelethu Mthethwa has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for e-flux in June 2023.
In these necessary times of dismantling and revisionism, there is a case to be made for the explanatory wall text as one of the least rehabilitated pieces of museum orthodoxy.
On October 1st 2019 SWEAT (Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce) publicly called for the withdrawal of an artwork by convicted murderer Zwelethu Mthethwa from the exhibition 鈥淎ll in a Day鈥檚 Eye: The Politics of Innocence in the Javett Collection鈥 at the UP-Javett Art...
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..Mthethwa is known for his large-scale portraits that powerfully frame black South Africans as dignified and defiant, even under the duress of social and economic hardship...
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..Although the history of the group and their rituals is fascinating in itself, Mthethwa鈥檚 interest lies rather in the peculiar costumes of the gathering, specifically the men...
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..It is these overlaps and juxtapositions that Mthethwa muses on in his new body of work 鈥 in what he refers to as 鈥溾 geography based on language鈥︹...
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..Unlike in previous pastel works by Mthethwa, people and figures become less of a feature in 鈥淎ltered Spaces鈥, appearing as silhouettes rather than distinct individuals and merging with the landscape...
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