Welgemeend August Art Month - 2019

36 ALEXANDER PODLASHUC The Pope is Dead. Long Live the Pope signed and dated 1991 oil on canvas 100 x 139 cm Podlashuc Collection “For Pod, religion was a metaphor for politics. For him the structure – of domination – endures, despite seemingly profound change. The changes taking place in 1990 in South Africa were for him typical of this. Here we see a series of white people in a row of telephone booths sharing the news of change: The alarmed cleric (incumbent state bureaucrat), the suspicious man peering furtively at the future and the cheery lady calling abroad, while her son holds their sharp fanged hounds close…” Leo Podlashuc