Faceless men of military intelligence 'Soweto - adapt or die' 'PRIME minister' reads the caption to a strik. ing P.W. Botha wearing him.
hibition, 'Art Attacks Apartheid', which will be on display at the 'Festival of Pro Africa Centre, 38 King St, London WC2.
The collection provides a powerful visual record of close-up of white South African leader bloody butcher's apron and displaying the heads of recently. executed black guerillas on a shelf behind This is one of the thirty paintings and photomontages included in Martin Lovis's exgressive Art' organised by the African Dawn Group from 21 August to 4 September at The and black the Napower in South Africa 32 Party came But as Lovis walla can aUSO out. be the symbols and understood by oppressed people in other countries.
He transforms the standard government hand-out photos of beaming benevolent politicians by blotting out facial detai and emphasising the shadow! and sinister Cal mosphere the ministerial offices In 'The Future' we see Vorster and Botha looking to each other for mutual support while a wreath in the foreground carries the slogan 'God bless Suid Atrika' Another montage has the faceless men of the Department of Military Intelligence in front of a background sophisticated military and surveillance equipment mr sold anticating South Africa's friends in the West. Glossy For 'Capitalising Lovis has taken his format the standard glossy group por trait of the board of direc LOS of any successful multinational; but CLIC faces here are more famiiar to us in Britain Thatcher, Oppenheimer the chairmen of Barclays Rio Tinto Zinc, Racal, anc BIS Ed wardes...
This is the third Lon don showing for 'Art At tacks Apartheid and Lovis is constant v adding to and updating the collection to developments side South Africa.
called Adapt or Die' has been used as the fold-out cover on a publication by the Interna tional Defence and Aid South Africa "The Whirlwind the Storm' Lovis As work reminds us, the black population in South Africa constantly serves and recycles the symbols and images of its economic and politica Now, in photograp: tomorrow's politica poster.
The exhibition deserves a wider viewing than it has received in this hire out his work to galleries, , festivals and the like, he can be contacted through Socialis:
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