The canvas with Jacob Zuma mutilated discontented Automatic translate

The picture, which depicts the President of South Africa, showing the genitals, the protesters stained in red and black paint.

In one of the galleries of Johannesburg an emergency occurred. One of the visitors painted red crosses on Zuma’s face and his genitals, while his younger accomplice smeared the painting with black paint. According to official figures, the younger vandal was captured by the guards of the gallery.

A painting called The Spear divided the inhabitants of South Africa into two camps. The African National Congress (ANC) government organization describes it as “rude, disrespectful, and racist,” while others recognize the right to vote for artist Brett Murray.

Already in the news bulletin for Tuesday among the vandals recognized university professors. On the video from the cameras you can see how he dipped his brush in red paint and slowly painted two X’s on the genitals and face. After some time, another man splashed black paint on his hands and applied it to the picture.

Andrew Harding, a BBC correspondent for Goodman Gallery, tweeted: “The portrait of Zuma was mutilated in black. The man who did this told me that "the picture was offensive." The guards of the gallery took him. The second was also arrested. ” According to the journalist, the men were taken away, and the gallery was closed.

In its report, the BBC quotes one of the vandals: “I do this because the picture is offensive to President Zuma.”

Murray previously noted that he had no purpose to offend someone with his work. It was only "an attempt at a humorous satire over political power and patriarchalism in the context of other works at the exhibition and the course of events in South Africa."

Demonstrations in support of the ANC were already taking place in Johannesburg, which demanded that the picture be removed from the exhibition. It was assumed that on Thursday the case will be thoroughly heard in court. Judge Katry Setilone noted that this is a matter of high national importance.

The church is more radical. A spokeswoman for the Shembe Baptist Church, Enoch Mtembu, calls for punishment on the head of the author of the picture, Murray, and notes that a person who has offended all the people deserves to be stoned.

According to official figures, the painting was bought by a German collector for a little over 16 thousand dollars.

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