When I started shilling for Soutie Press I was expecting a cake walk. The art of Anton Kannemeyer and Conrad Botes – from their large-scale works to dime-store comic books – is after all famous worldwide, revered, controversial (ka-ching!), iconic, culturally indicting, relevant and enduring, and undeniably, irrevocably, inimitablygood. Start some social media profiles, promote the shit out of it guaranteeing targeted reach, and convert to sale – easy!
In the August 2020 edition of Art Times, Conrad Botes and Anton Kannemeyer take a moment to talk about their new books, a fresh wave of censorship and the hypocrisy of the middle class.