A fundamental figure in South African art and history, Dumile Feni explored the injustices, suffering and hopes of black South Africans during apartheid through drawing, painting and sculpture, offering an incisive commentary on the human condition and the struggle for freedom. A social and political commitment demonstrated by powerful works such as African Guernica (1967), painted shortly before his London exile, which earned him the nickname “Goya of the Township”, or the bronze sculpture History which expresses all the brutality of the master-slave relationship.
