When the news hit yesterday of the death of the world’s greatest humanitarian of my generation you could almost hear the cries of grief — and celebration.
When the tears dry and the dancing winds down, there will still be the art. And much more to come.
This commemorative public artwork outside Durban, SA, is composed of 50 steel columns representing the 50th year of his capture, and evokes the prison bars he faced for 27 years. ‘Release’ was created by Marco Cianfanelli.
Shadow Boxing, a five-metres-tall metal public artpiece, also by Cianfanelli, was unveiled earlier this year in front of the Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg.
Shanghai-based ‘seal artist’ Phil Akashi paid tribute to Mandela earlier this year by affixing the Chinese seal of the character for ‘freedom’ on the front of a boxing glove, then walloping a wall i 27,000
See more artistic expressions of love, gratitude, respect and remembrance to the man the people called Madiba (father).
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