Ndiyakuthanda (I Love You)

Notes

"After attending part-time classes at the Community Arts Project in 1986, Vanyaza gave up his carpentry job to devote himself full-time to his art. He has since had successful local and international exhibitions and is currently lecturing at Sivuyile College in Gugulethu. In this pastel drawing a tense interaction between a sangoma and an elegantly dressed woman is captured with densely rich and vivid colour. The blank, almost sinister visage of the man, and the alarmed and even indignant expression of the woman, suggest a situation at odds with the title of this work."¹

^1,Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works from a Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape town, unpaginated.

Literature

Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works from a Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape town, illustrated in black and white, unpaginated, cat. no. 43.

Provenance

Property of a Gentleman.