Dion Cupido South African

The  studio-produced paintings of Dion Cupido are a contemporary combination of portraiture and abstraction. Cupido’s work has the appeal of collage, as he layers paint and graffiti. Cupido has utilised his intrigue with street art to explore identity and recollections of the past. Writer and historian Ashraf Jamal wrote that the artworks of Dion Cupido “represents the very newly minted post-transitional moment in South African art; a moment in which our dark history and its democratic afterglow are both beside the point.”