Butcher Boys (1985/86) is a
sculpture made by South African artist Jane Alexander of three life size, oil
painted plaster figures with animal horn and bone details, seated on a bench.
The humanoid beasts with powdery
skin, black eyes, broken horns are devoid of their outside senses – their ears
are nothing more than deep gorges in their heads and their mouths are missing,
appearing to be covered with thick roughened skin.
The artwork represents the brutal
dehumanizing forces of Apartheid in South Africa.
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