Conrad Botes’ painting and sculptural practice has its roots in comic book drawing, which he has been exploring for over a decade. Together with Anton Kannemeyer he is co-founder and publisher of Bitterkomix, an iconoclastic comics magazine founded in 1992. The narrative content of his work is usually related to race, gender and violence and their disturbing relationship to power and hierarchy… This biting satire, frequently directed at South African society, politics and religion, is channelled into both his painting and printmaking, and his comics.
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