BREAKING: New Zuma Penis Painting Hung In Cape Town Gallery [PIC]

Could Jacob Zuma’s Penis be the most painted presidential member of all time? Artist Ayanda Mabulu has created another painting that displays our President’s bits and pieces. It is on display at the AVA gallery in Cape Town, and the question on everyone’s lips? Will it get defaced?

The painting has JZ in traditional Zulu attire with his nether regions exposed for all to see; entitled Umshini Wam it is part of an exhibition called Our Fathers. What everybody is waiting to see is whether this creation is going to cause as much of a furor as Bret Murray’s The Spear. Paintings of President Zuma’s rope and tackle do not come cheap. Mabulu’s painting is priced at a hefty R75 000.

Mabulu was reported as saying:

He is not naked; I did not paint him with an uncircumcised penis. This is a metaphor that shows he is not a boy; he is a man, an elder, a father, a leader.

This is as fair a point as you will find, but after the rather ridiculous outrage over Murray’s painting it is debatable whether the point will hold water with the South African masses. He went on to describe the thesis behind the work:

In this painting I’m engaging my elder in the language of my mother tongue, the language that carries the culture of my people, the language he understands the most.

Through this painting, I respectfully, as one of his children, ask my father why he is starving us. Why he is negating his duties to his children, the citizens of South Africa.

One of Mabulu’s other paintings – Ngcono ihlwempu kunesibhanxo sesityebi (Better poor than a rich puppet) - was referenced often during The Spear escapade as it also depicted South African leaders in compromising positions; the question asked was why this painting did not create as much of a stir as did Murray’s.

[Source: Times Live]

http://www.facebook.com/777productions Deon Fialkov

Blah blah blah …these artists bore me with their unoriginal concepts of art…
RedRanga

Guys, calm down – he is engaging el presidente in his mother tounge. ANCYL is too busy wanting to move into Constantia to care, and besides, Ayanda isn’t white…so its all cool
Spike

The leopard-skin really brings out his Rolex…
http://twitter.com/PikeyJim MALALAPIPE

hahahahahahahah
Mike

I think a t-shirt with just a penis with the words JACOB ZUMA would sell well.
truth

not only the painting shud b defaced, the artist as well shud b defaced, the bas_stard.
Ches

Looks like he has severe piles…
brad

I hope one day when people paint me they constantly give me such a huge dong…
Shaun Madyaka

lol……….hardly Mr president, Its wat you get when you’ve disrespected a gud man, just for the sake of gettin the power, what u’ve done to MR Thabo Mbeki, its been done to you double. hahahaha
OMFG

Yeah, don’t you just love the hole! *heave*
http://www.facebook.com/mkhululimkay.mncube Mkhululi Mkay Mncube

No one deserves to be direspected
khetz

Aah not again dis is boring now. Dis so called artist,where is you’re creativity?! What’s so special about Mr Zuma’s. “p”.if there’s a special message you want to put across,I suggest you paint yours or your fathers and we compare it with zuma’s.maybe then we will get da message.
zaeak

ha ha heeeeeeeeeha
kruman

this is indeed amazing how one can wake up the next morning and paint..trash..how many such paintings have we had on African and World leaders?
Not even Bill Clinton received such harshness during the lewinskygate era..i mean..this is so unbecoming of artists and must be resisted.shame on your Ayanda..i doubt if you ever enjoyed fatherly warmth and care..in your words..I quote..He is not naked; I did not paint him with an uncircumcised penis. This is a metaphor that shows he is not a boy; he is a man, an elder, a father, a leader..what is metaphoric there? is that how to honour elders?
john

Painting the President like this for the second time is mad disrespectful. But the President should also be able to take a hint. I never saw anyone paint such pictures of Mandela or Mbeki.
Sharon Dean

Way too big Ayanda!!
LUNGANI

I AM NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE PAINTING. THOSE RESPONSIBLE THEY SHOULD BE PUT IN JAIL. WE WERE BEING VICTIMIZE DURING OLD REGIME BUT NOT SINGLE PAINTING OF THIS NATURE. WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY
LUNGANI

THESE KIND OF PAINTING ARE MAKING OUR COUNTRY AT RISK OF UNNECESSARY WARS
Tee

Respect for elders! Can these ppl paint their fathers with their penis hanging out? NO!!! It getting annoying.
iMash

maybe we should deface zooomer

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