Artist: Charles Sekano
Date: 2003
Size: 59 x 84 cm
Museum: University of Pretoria Museums (Pretoria, South Africa)
Technique: Drawing
A 2003 pastel drawing titled, Multiple Segregated Faces by the South African artist Charles Sekano (b1943). Sekano went into exile during the early apartheid era, working in countries like Kenya and Tanzania. Short Biography: Charles Sekano was born in 1943 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He left South Africa in 1964, and stayed in Kenya for three years. It was in Nairobi, where he developed as a visual artist and a Jazz musician playing piano. His drawings and paintings celebrate the bohemian, multiracial world of the Nairobi nightclubs that offered an often perilous escape from the drabness and oppression of the Daniel Arap Moi regime and a colorful alternative to the deadening restrictions of apartheid in his own country. It was only in 1997, over age 50, that Charles Sekano returned to South Africa with his Kenyan wife and two children. He exhibited the first time back in South Africa at the University of Pretoria in 2008. Sekano has exhibited widely in Kenya, Holland, Germany, Japan, the US, UK and South Africa. His works are in private collections across the world and in various museums, including the Völkerkunde Museum in Frankfurt, Germany and the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, USA.
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