Gavin Jantjes (1949) - Against Apartheid

Very beautiful lithograph by Gavin Jantjes (born in 1949) and titled 'Against Apartheid'.
Dated 1983, color lithograph on paper, signed and dated at the bottom right.
Numbered 44/100 in the bottom left.
Dimensions 60 by 85
He is an artist, a South African painter, but also an exhibition curator, writer and speaker.
He studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town.
He will leave apartheid-era South Africa to study in Hamburg.
He is a founding member of the German anti-apartheid movement and obtained political asylum in Germany in 1973.
In 1979, he published 'South African Colouring Book'.
It is a work made up of 11 silkscreen prints pasted together, exploring Apartheid in the form of a children's coloring book.
He will be a senior lecturer in Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Arts.
In 2004, he joined the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo as a senior consultant for international contemporary art exhibitions.
He also directed the project "Visual Century" on 20th-century and contemporary South African art, which led to the publication of the work "Visual Century: South African Art in Context" in 2011.
He has held a great many exhibitions in galleries and museums. Notably in Stockholm, Berlin, London, Liverpool…
It was exhibited at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, and also in Stoke-on-Trent.
Their works are in the Tate Britain collection (London).
But also in the collection of the 'Arts Council of the Wolverhampton Art Gallery' (Coventry City Museum).
And at the "National Museum of African Art" (Washington, D.C.).
A highly engaged artist! With a body of work whose composition is very harmonious.