Johannesburg
- Another painting of President Jacob Zuma with his private parts exposed went
on display at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town on Monday night, according to a
report.
According to
The Cape Times, artist Ayanda Mabulu's painting of Zuma wearing traditional
attire and his penis exposed, entitled Umshini Wam [weapon of mass destruction,
according to the artist's description] is part of an exhibition - Our Fathers.
The
exhibition also has works from artist Brett Murray whose controversial
painting, The Spear, resulted in protests against Johannesburg's Goodman
Gallery in May.
The Spear,
which also depicted Zuma with his genitals exposed, was later removed by the
Goodman Gallery and the City Press website. The artwork was also classified
with a rating of "16N" by the Film and Publication Board because it
displays nudity.
Mabulu's
painting is priced at R75 000.
"He is
not naked; I did not paint him with an uncircumcised penis. This is a metaphor
that shows he is not a boy; he is a man, an elder, a father, a leader,"
Mabulu was quoted as saying.
"In
this painting I'm engaging my elder in the language of my mother-tongue, the language
that carries the culture of my people, the language he understands the most.
"Through
this painting, I respectfully, as one of his children, ask my father why he is
starving us. Why he is negating his duties to his children, the citizens of
South Africa."
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