The Mudariki Post

By   Lloyd Pollak First published in exhibition catalogue for My Reality, Mudariki's  first solo exhibition in 2012 Richard Mudariki is an award-winning Zimbabwean artist who has exhibited widely in Harare, Cape Town and Johannesburg. He has been living in South Africa for the past year, and My Reality , his first solo exhibition, presents a body of work that reflects the ongoing crisis that obtains in the country of his birth.  However, despite the title, his paintings make no pretence to portray real events. They candidly admit that they are fabrications in which old master compositions, poses and plastic sequences of interlinked figures, are severed from their original historical context, and projected into a fresh frame of reference where their meaning is transformed, so that they comment on the iniquities of the Mugabe dictatorship, and draw attention to other injustices of far wider import. Mudariki’s work can be profitably compare...