Description
Man is an oil on canvas work by Wayne Barker, created in 2013. At 30 × 42cm, it’s an intimate-scale piece from an artist better known for large, provocative, mixed-media installations.
Wayne Barker (b. 1963, Pretoria) is one of South Africa’s most significant contemporary artists, having risen to prominence in the late 1980s during the height of apartheid-era political unrest. He founded the influential Famous International Gallery (F.I.G.), which gave early exhibition space to artists including William Kentridge and Kendell Geers. Barker’s work — spanning painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation — engages with land, colonialism, race, and reconciliation, and has been shown at the Venice Biennale, the Johannesburg Biennale, and in his major 2010 retrospective, Super Boring, at the Standard Bank Gallery and SMAC Gallery.
Barker’s work is held in the South African National Gallery, the Johannesburg Art Museum, and the SASOL, Anglo American, and GENCOR collections.
