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Gavin Jantjes A South African Colouring Book 1974–75

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Jantjes made this portfolio when he was an art student in Germany during the 1970s. Like Ernest Cole, he was driven to show his European peers the past and present of life under apartheid. House of Bondage was one of Jantjes’s few resources for anti-apartheid images, and five of Cole’s photographs appear in the portfolio, printed in negative or repeated so that they resemble film strips. By layering images and including rudimentary color bars, Jantjes invokes numerous meanings of the word “color” and underscores the absurd and dehumanizing nature of apartheid practices.

Gallery label from 2023
Medium
Portfolio of 11 screenprints, some with paper-clipped and taped additions, and a screenprinted paper cover
Dimensions
sheet (each): 23 11/16 × 17 13/16" (60.2 × 45.2 cm)
Publisher
Gavin Jantjes, Hamburg
Printer
Gavin Jantjes, Hamburg
Edition
20
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Object number
787.2022.a-l
Type
Portfolio
Department
Drawings and Prints

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