Untitled
1989–90
Acrylic on canvas
96-23-1, purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program

This work is based on a study (2002-14-6, on exhibit) from the artist’s Zulu series that references the Khoi San peoples’ myth about the creation of the Milky Way. In the myth, a girl reaches into the fire and throws burning embers into the sky.

b. 1948, South Africa

Raised in Cape Town's District Six, Gavin Jantjes received his masters of arts from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany. Rather than returning to a South Africa under apartheid, Jantjes stayed in Europe where he became a founding member of the German Anti-Apartheid movement, later served as a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees and became an active participant in the British arts community. He now lives and works in Norway.

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