​Contemporary South African Art

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Born in Cape Town on the 8th August 1974 Dyaloyi is surely one of South Africa´s most promising young painters. Drawn to art as a young boy drawing and sketching anything and everything, he attended art classes for two to three hours everyday after school. Today, aged 30, his restrained palette could be that of a man twice his age and experience.

Living in Khayelitsha, Dyaloyi paints with an uncanny determination, trying to unravel the mysteries of the human condition through his medium. Rubbing sand into his oil paints and using mostly untreated canvases or rough board his work resonates his environment and subjects.

His work fits into a broader genre of South African painting, which has its roots in the Thupelo programme. Dyaloyi´s imagery began to crystallise around the time of South Africa´s First Democratic Elections. He pays special attention to the South African context and hopes to highlight "… the black people´s level of existence." Thought provoking, powerful, at times poignant in subject matter, one can look at his art as "Neon neo-township" - ordinary citizens rendered in heightened colours, larger than life. He prays that his images will bring about understanding.