With the emergence of a First Prize
winner, last night, at the grand finale of African Artists Foundation (AAF)-organised National Art Competition, in Lagos,
it appears that artists in Nigeria may have been losing grip on the future of
art in the country.
This much was echoed in the
controversial First Prize I-DentitiTrees by Sesu Tilley-Gyado. Few
minutes before the announcement of the three winners, the leader of the jury,
Prof El Anatsui, in his speech disclosed that the winner was arrived at through
“a democratic process”. The votes of the three artists in the jury, he stated,
were “overwhelmed” by that of “the non-artists”.
Tagged, IDENTITY: Who Do You Think You Are?, the competition has First Place, Tilley-Gyado gets N2
million naira; First Runners up, a collaboration of Halima Abubaker and Zemaye
Okediji, N1m Naira for Outstanding Concept; and Victoria Udondian’s Arti-tude,
N1m for Outstanding Production.
Other
members of the jury were Bisi Silva, Oliver Enwonwu, Francois Sastourne, Maki
Osakwe, Yasue Maetake, Caline Chagoury, Yvonne Ike, Michelle Okocha and Prof
Peju Layiwola.
(Full report soon).
(Full report soon).
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