Well-known for his bold, innovative public art pieces and large-scale sculptural works, Marco Cianfanelli graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1992. His most iconic work is Release, a monumental fragmented portrait of Nelson Mandela that was erected in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on the 50th anniversary of Mandela's arrest there in 1962. Cianfanelli's wor