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Affichage des articles du avril, 2019

Exhibition : BitterKomix - La Cité des Arts, La Réunion

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Bitterkomix  used to be a South-African, Capetown-based comics' magazine in the 90'/00's. It was created in 1992 (as a remember, the Apartheid regime felt in 1994) as a collective zine and was mainly designed by Anton Kannemeyer x , alias Joe Dog and his mate Conrad Botes x . Some great South African. illustrators also collaborated with them : Joe Daly (check his awesome  Red Monkey  series -  The leaking Cello Case  or  John Wesley Harding ), Karlien DeVilliers x ( My mother was a beautiful woman,  we're still looking forward the release of the next one !), Lorcan White... A scratchy vision of the post-Apartheid South African society This art exhibition introduces us to the world of the two main drawers : trashy drawings, provocative and politically incorrect tone serving their libertarian, humanist vision of the post-Apartheid South African society. A clever work that scratched the whites' conservatisms and q...