The lone supporter of artist Brett Murray’s work wore a ripped lab coat covered in red blood-like smears and camouflage combat trousers.
“It’s pathetic that I’m the only one here… A sign of our lack of civil action,” said Anthony Posner with one wrist handcuffed, and his mouth covered by an aeroplane eye-mask.
He paced back and forth, close to the riot police and the Goodman Gallery.
He waved a camera with an extremely large, phallic microphone attached in one hand and a newspaper article on Murray in the other.
“I’m on the side of the artists,” shouted Posner.
He said that he had been working as an activist for freedom of speech for many years and runs an organisation called the Max Gorilla Movement.
“The fact that I’m the only person protesting for the painting says South Africa doesn’t deserve its democracy.
“It was inevitable that the exhibition would be closed down. If you don’t like something, the only thing you can do is close it down,” said Posner.
The Star