‘The violence of racist tyranny’: African Guernica goes on display alongside Picasso masterpiece
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Dumile Feni's "African Guernica," created in 1967, is on display at the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid, directly opposite Picasso's "Guernica." This marks the first time "African Guernica" has been exhibited outside of South Africa. The exhibition is the first in a new annual series called "History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme," which aims to juxtapose works from different cultures with Picasso's masterpiece. "African Guernica," on loan from the University of Fort Hare, reflects Feni's rage against apartheid in South Africa, similar to how Picasso's work depicts the Nazi bombing of Guernica. The initiative seeks to re-evaluate the museum's famous work and address historical biases that have marginalized African art. Feni, a self-taught artist who died in exile in 1991, created the work using charcoal and pencil.
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AI-ExtractedFeni died in New York in 1991 after spending almost a quarter of a century in exile.
The aim is to take works from different cultural and geographical frameworks and put them alongside Guernica.
African Guernica has never before been exhibited outside South Africa.
African Guernica was drawn by Dumile Feni in 1967.
Picasso's Guernica itself could not have existed without African sculpture.
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