Anton Kannemeyer

Anton Kannemeyer’s work is an hilariously potent right-left combination of humour and critique. Known to be responsible for the emergence of high comic satire within South African art, (along with Conrad Botes, with whom he co-founded the sometimes-subversive press Bitterkomix), the Cape Town-based artist’s most recent series, Alphabet of Democracy, documents – in ways both funny and frightening – the hidden absurdities of life in his home country.