Mthethwa was born in 1960 in Durban,Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. "His work is grounded in tradition, yet he imbues it with a riveting contemporary presence. He yanks the viewer through the looking-glass into his painterly planet. It is a world full of possible "windows", yet these openings are flat surfaces soaked in subtly modulated fictions. And his paintings serve as...read more