Anton Kannemeyer

"In April/May 2008 Kannemeyer held his first New York exhibition, The Haunt of Fears (a reference to a 1950s horror comic anthology published by EC Comics). The exhibition, at Jack Shainman Gallery, was praised in the New York Times for its 'semiotic sophistication, graphic ingenuity and X-ray political vision'. In Fear of a Black Planet - the title this time quoting the 1990 album by the American rap/hip-hop group Public Enemy - Kannemeyer continues his investigation of the fear and anxiety that underlie South Africa's fragile democracy. As always in his work, the thin veneer of polite white society is peeled away to expose the hypocrisy and racism that lurk beneath, but Kannemeyer is as relentless in his critique of the corruption and greed endemic amongst the country's new political elite. Socio-politics and the individual psyche are equally scrutinised in the ongoing Alphabet of Democracy series and related N is for Nightmare works."

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