Untitled (top)
1990
Ink and photocopy on paper
96-23-5, purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections
Acquisition Program
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Untitled (bottom)
1990
Ink and photocopy on paper
96-23-7, purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections
Acquisition Program
These drawings link staple foods with the constellation
Eridanus (the river), which enters the night sky annually when the Nile
floods.
These works, part of Jantjes Zulu series, draw
from his sketchbook notes on astronomy, Khoi San rock art painting and
collections of primary words he noted when researching his idea for the
drawings. Each pair features one image-based and one text-based drawing.
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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