Brett Murray: I am an African too - SOLD
Brett Murray (b 1961)
I am an African too - 2008
Metal and resin - Edition 1/5 (Diptych)
Each panel 42,5 x 29 cm (2)
Signed, numbered and dated on the back
The only work in the edition produced to date
Sold - 2016
Brett Murray’s diptych, titled I am an African too, offers a satirical approach to politics and ideology, although quite different from that of a political cartoonist. This work formed part of an exhibition titled Crocodile Tears which looked at the African Renaissance ideologies of the Mbeki era, and refers directly to his I am an African speech. It comments specifically on Mbeki’s quiet diplomacy regarding the political catastrophe that was developing in Zimbabwe under Mugabe.