Louis Maqhubela

“What is apparent is that the accumulation of all his experiences produced magical paintings that belong to the here and now”

“It would be a mistake to characterise his work as the art of an exile”

“Why would your ancestral form of expression suddenly be deemed 'foreign' to the black man of the 20th century”

“Even abstract art by a black practitioner was a declaration of war against being stereotyped, bearing in mind that abstraction has, for centuries been Africa's premier form of expression.”