Wayne Barker highly rated contemporary SA artist Monoprint portrait of Gandhi 2017

Offered for sale is a highly collectible monoprint by the contemporary and highly rated South African artist Wayne Barker. This is a digital giclee print with hand painted detail signed witht he artists initials and dated 2017. The image is based on a  studio portrait of the world famous  Indian Politicain , activist and lawyer who much like Mandela inspired civil rights and freedom movements throughout the world. Gandi was an anti-colonial nationalist a Hindu who was a central driving force facilitating the independence of India from the British state/ Raji largely through persistent non violent resistence and protests , Gandi has a strong link with South Africa having lived in the Country for 21 years from 1921 practising as a  lawyer. The image Barker has used is probably a studio portrait from the 1930;s based on the iconic and still relatively youthful appearance of the man . Wayne Barker is a Johannesburg based artist with a career spanning more than 4 decades during which time he has achieved a stellar reputation as a leading avant garde artist working across various media from traditional painting and drawing to installations performance art video and collaborations. This is a relatively subdued and understated artistic statement from Barker but very striking with the artists dramatic use of a red paint thumbprint to create a Bindi on the forhead of Gandi which is strictly speaking inappropriate as the Bindi is traditionally an adornment for married Hindu woman a "holy dot" . Possibly a joke or gender-slur is intended by the artists. The print is signed bottom right  in felt pen/ink with the artists initials WB  in a quirky sloping scrawl resembling a profile of a dinosaur or  the Loch Ness monster and the date 2017. 

Postage for this item is R120 via Postnet or R140 for courier delivery to major cities in SA. Collection is welcome from Emmerantia Jhb.