We would love to share about the exhibition Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective (1970 – 2023).

Thami Mnyele Foundation invited Gavin Jantjes, who was a good friend of Thami Mnyele, to participate in Thami Mnyele Foundation 30 year anniversary event in 2020.

This timely retrospective of Oxfordshire-based South African painter and printmaker Gavin Jantjes (b. 1948, South Africa) is his largest solo presentation in the UK to date. It brings together more than five decades of the artist’s diverse and distinctive practice.

Through over 100 prints, drawings, and paintings, as well as archival material, the exhibition celebrates Jantjes as a significant and critical agent of change while tracing his development as a painter, printmaker, writer, curator and activist.

Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective (1970–2023) is organised by Whitechapel Gallery and Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with The Africa Institute, Sharjah. Curated by Salah M. Hassan. Presentation at Whitechapel Gallery is curated in collaboration with Gilane Tawadros and Cameron Foo

You can see the exhibition from 12 June to 1 September 2024

Photo: Gavin Jantjes, Untitled, 1989, Acrylic on canvas, Arts Council Collection, Image courtesy the artist

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