Luan Nel : Malta Bella

Luan Nel (Malta Bella) is an insightful look into the work of artist Luan Nel. Known for his paintings of the natural world as well as his performance work as Donatella Visagie amongst others. The book broadly covers all three decades of this artists output. Nel subscribes to an art practice that consistently catches the audience unawares with its poetry as well as with an attention to detail and timing. It is no ordinary monograph with essays by leading art writers and interviews with artists and activists covering areas of identity, our South African context and the queer archive.
Striking that this is not the unfolding of one academic reading of an artist’s work. It includes an insightful and touching collection of essays by authors – Alexandra Dodd, Brenton Maart, Wilhelm van Rensburg, Robin Sassen and interviews with artists, Moshekwa Langa, Ilya Rabinovich, and Social Justice lawyer and activist Keval Harie.