Anthony Wakaba Mutheki was tagged by sections of South African media and art lovers as Africa's Van Gogh, in Kenya, where he was born, however, he was virtually unknown. But in South Africa, his adopted home, Mutheki’s name and that of Nelson Mandela are spoken of in the same sentence. Anthony Wakaba Mutheki's work [Courtesy]“Who sews his own clothes out of canvas using a needle made of bicycle spikes,” Ngammau asks rhetorically, amazed at Mutheki’s spontaneity. Suddenly, I ended up on the streets, where I stayed for almost two years,” he once told South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. From the United Nations offices in Geneva to major galleries in New York and Philadelphia, Mutheki’s art had hit the high street.

Source: Standard Digital May 30, 2021 06:56 UTC