‘The violence of racist tyranny’: African Guernica goes on display alongside Picasso masterpiece

South African artist Dumile Feni's "African Guernica," drawn in 1967, is now on display at Madrid's Reina Sofía museum in the same location where Picasso's "Guernica" was first exhibited 34 years ago. Feni's work, a smaller but equally powerful drawing depicting violence and racial tyranny, is part of a new exhibition series titled "History Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme." The pairing of these two anti-war masterpieces—separated by decades and continents but united in their depiction of brutality and human suffering—places Feni's artistic response to apartheid-era South Africa alongside one of the 20th century's most iconic anti-violence statements.