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Shades of Change

A work made of offset lithograph on white wove paper.

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  • A work made of offset lithograph on white wove paper.

Date:

1982

Artist:

Sergio-Albio González
Cuban, born 1931

About this artwork

Theater was a critical component of the cultural work that Medu organized in Botswana. One of the group’s acclaimed plays was Shades of Change. Written by Mongane Wally Serote, the two-man play is set in a prison cell amid the fervor of the 1976 Soweto uprising.

In 1982, for the second run of the play, Medu member Teresa Devant traveled to the Market Theatre in Johannesburg to audition South Africans. She cast Lammy Shoba and Joka Scott, who performed the play in Botswana for five months just prior to Medu’s Festival of Culture and Resistance.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Albio Gonzalez

Title

Shades of Change

Place

South Africa (Artist's nationality:)

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1982

Medium

Offset lithograph on white wove paper

Dimensions

60.5 × 42.3 cm (23 7/8 × 16 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Artworkers Retirement Society

Reference Number

2018.476

Extended information about this artwork

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