For Gbemi Elekula, art, design go with ladies' sanitary culture
FROM formal training in a construction discipline to five-year career in the financial sector, Gbemi Elekula was prepared, consciously or not, to be an entrepreneur. But neither the real estate, nor the financial sector would win her area of interest in adding value to Nigeria's business circle - the creative industry won. Read more.
TRACKING art of sculpture, from ancient Africa to post-modern period, has exposed time disparity between the two basic sub-medium of cast and welded metal. While the cast medium made its formal entry during colonial period, welded metal didn't emerge into mainstream space until the late 1970 to early 1980s. MORE.
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| CEO of DreamHome, Gbemi Elekula. |
FROM formal training in a construction discipline to five-year career in the financial sector, Gbemi Elekula was prepared, consciously or not, to be an entrepreneur. But neither the real estate, nor the financial sector would win her area of interest in adding value to Nigeria's business circle - the creative industry won. Read more.
Cast, welded metal art practice disparity in post-modern Nigeria
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| A welded metal sculpture titled Sunflower by Olu Amoda. Pic: c/o of the artist. |
TRACKING art of sculpture, from ancient Africa to post-modern period, has exposed time disparity between the two basic sub-medium of cast and welded metal. While the cast medium made its formal entry during colonial period, welded metal didn't emerge into mainstream space until the late 1970 to early 1980s. MORE.
Ajueshi's plans for young professionals in art management skills
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| Jeff Ajueshi, Founder/Artistic Director of Thought Pyramid Art Centre
Abuja and Lagos. Pic: c/o Thought Pyramid. |
ART
galleries in Nigeria, like most parts of the world, are the fountains
from which the passions of artists, collectors, curators and other
professionals in the visual culture economy get watered. MORE.
Against suspicion, curators struggle in post-independence Nigeria
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| Godwin Adesoye's 'New Market' (oil and charcoal on canvas, 5ft x 4ft, 2015). Pic: c/o Translucent S.I. |
DURING
60 years of post-independence Nigeria, curatorial practice was hardly
active in mainstream exhibition circuits. Strangely too, some artists in
Nigeria, still do not agree that artistic presentation requires
critical input from a professional not involved in the creation of their
art; they view curators through the prism of suspicion. MORE.
At 60, Ayoade shows 'Faces and Figures', celebrates with 'twin sister' Nigeria
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| Uncertainty (alcohol ink on yupo paper, 2019), by Mukaila Ayoade. Pic: c/o the artist. |
FROM
working in Lagos, Nigeria, to his current base in Chicago, U.S., artist
Mukaila Ayoade brings into a single space his oeuvre of over 30 years. MORE.
In Suowari's monochrome strokes, beauty, fashion blossom
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| Ama' (ink and acrylic on paper, 5 x 8ft, 2020) by Jacqueline Suowari. Pic: from the artist. |
DESPITE being the oldest form of art, figurative painting has been defined differently by each generation of artists across cultures. In the unfolding world of 21st century contemporary art that is giving figurative painting diverse tones, Jacqueline Suowari is one of such artists, whose brushstroke and ballpoint of fluidity are in romantic flow with monochromatic contents. MORE.
Dokolo, dos Santos art patronage in web of massive 'corruption'
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| Olu Oguibe’s obelisk titled Monument for Strangers and Refugees, (50 ft, 2017). Pic: c/o Kassel Square. |
In the crossfire of prosecuting
alleged massive corruption of one of Africa's controversial families,
the dos Santos of Angola, some contemporary art collections are being
trapped. Read more.
Ghariokwu In ‘Dance Floor’ of Fela’s Album Cover Design
As
long as Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, remains a recurring
subject on global creative space, designer, Lemi Ghariokwu, would not
stop being a human encyclopaedia on the controversial musician. For the
20th year anniversary of Fela’s death, it would have been an incomplete
landmark not to hear from Ghariokwu, who was the musician’s album cover
designer for almost two decades (1974-1992). READ MORE.
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| Lemi Ghariokwu, speaking to guests during the exhibition, in Lagos. |
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Filling Mosaic Art Vacuum With Olaopa's Mission
Ofili, Adjaye Get Queen's Honours
Nigerian-British artist, Chris Ofili
and his Ghanaian-British counterpart, architect David Adjaye, are on the list
of Queens’s knighthood honours in the New Yearear.
Adjaye is the
lead architect of the Smithsonian's new museum of African American History in
Washington, DC, among several note able works of his. Ofili, a
read more.
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short of rich presentation comes as expectation.
Interestingly, every edition, Experience
Nigeria Art comes in modest texture, but richness in art contents and
presentation. For the 2016 edition, artists, patrons and other professionals
were honoured with African Art Awards, a spice of Experience Nigeria Show and
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How Art Confronted Recession In Year 2016
By
Tajudeen Sowole
LIKE
other sectors of the economy, the art market started the first quarter of 2016
with a journey into uncertainty. And by the time the Federal Government
officially confirmed that the economy had entered recession, the effect of
weakened purchasing power was already hovering over art patronage, so suggested
the lure that followed.
A Stern Mirror Of Preludes, Pretexts, Presumptions
By Tajudeen Sowole
a look at. For the artists of Connectivity Of Vision, there came the support of READ MORE.
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Biomimetics... Music legend, Uwaifo 'solves' sculpture challenges
Filling Mosaic Art Vacuum With Olaopa's Mission
By Tajudeen Sowole
AS one of the oldest media of
visual representation, mosaic art, whichdates back to the third millennium BCE,
is still, in contemporary era, mostly used for outdoor works. Perhaps,
confining it to outdoor, particularly in a country like Nigeria where the
demand for it is not as regular, has been the reason for its decline and weak
appreciation.
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| Mosaic mural for outdoor wall covering of a private building in Lagos. |
Also,
being a medium of art that requires an artist's painstaking attention in
placing spots of materials to form clusters of images, read more.
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By Tajudeen Sowole
Art competitions as crucial
inputs that come with honours such as awards across various other areas of art
patronage and promotion are no doubt the oil that lubricate art appreciation in
the Lagos circuit. And when the specific art completion in focus is the oldest in this part of the world, Experience
Nigeria Art Show, nothing  | |
| Clara Aden’s Hopephobia won the star prize at Experience Nigeria 2016. |
How Art Confronted Recession In Year 2016
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| President Muammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha; Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and his wife, Dolapo, during the artists' visit to Aso Rock. Picture: By Tolani Ali. |
However, 'the show must go on.' The art
exhibition spaces and auction circuits - two main outlets for the art market -
still filled their regular spots, perhaps,
to keep the spirit of art patronage alive. In fact, a new entrant MORE HERE.
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A Stern Mirror Of Preludes, Pretexts, Presumptions
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A
set of sculptures titled ‘Sleeping Beauty’
by Peju Alatise
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Populated with miniaturised
nude figures, a body of work by Peju Alatise, shown as Preludes, Pretexts, Presumptions at Kia Showroom, Victoria Island,
Lagos, accosts behaviourial patterns, prosecutes and perhaps convicts norms
into the penitentiary of perception. But like every
artist who wields
their creative freedom in a complex task of reminding
everyone to visit the mirror, the
verdict in Alatise’s incendiary concept is piercing.
A visit
to the exhibition, three days after its formal opening, presents the artist's
oeuvre in an internal, three-way competitive texture between the materials
used, technique applied and the theme in focus. But with the truncating of
social structures in developing countries, particularly the Africa region, the
theme in this exhibition MORE HERE.
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Futuristic Space For Artists of Connectivity
By Tajudeen Sowole
Whatever Badejo Abiodun,
Adeleke Akeem, Owolabi Ayodele And Babatunde Bolaji hoped to achieve with Connectivity
Of Vision may not exactly get the right attention now. The idea of what the
artists described as individual solo exhibitions under one collectivity
appeared like a futuristic concept that more artists and galleries might
embrace in the years to come.
In a developing economy such as Nigeria's
where less privileged artists are incresingly struggling to have a debut solo
art exhibition, a space that allows two or more artists have pool of resource
for solo within a group show is indeed worth taking  |
| A painting, Sunday Morning, by Abiodun Badejo |
a look at. For the artists of Connectivity Of Vision, there came the support of READ MORE.
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Biomimetics... Music legend, Uwaifo 'solves' sculpture challenges
By Tajudeen Sowole
When Prof. (Sir) Victor
Uwaifo, a music star of legendary status with profound career in the academia,
stepped out into the visual arts space, for a solo exhibition, the creative
enterprise in its full length came to fore. Inside Nimbus Gallery space of
Bogobiri, Ikoyi, Lagos, Uwaifo used the opening of his solo art exhibition
titled ‘Biomimetics Of Sculpture:
And What Is Art?,’ to
unveil his research work on three dimensional art as well as launch of a
12-track new music album, You Are The Finest (Wabugie).
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Sculptural depiction of Captain
Moore and Oba Ovonranmwen (1897) by Prof. Victor Uwaifo
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Expressed
in sculptures using materials such as resin and ivory - most times with glazing
- Uwaifo's work is explained in the academic process of creating art. Most of
the human figures on display, including his self-portraits and depiction of
1897 Benin Punitive Expedition, are, perhaps, appropriated as museum pieces,
given the scale of themes involved. MORE.
Berthing Shonibare's Wind
Sculpture VI in Lagos
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
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| British Deputy high Commission, Simon Shercliff (left)
Director programs British Council, Louisa Waddingham; Director Visual Art
British Council, Emma Dexter; representative of MD GTB Bank Babajide Sipe and
the exhibiting artist, Yinka Shonibare MBE, during the exhibition in Lagos. |
By Tajudeen Sowole
When Nigerian-British artist,
Yinka Shonibare (MBE) opened his exhibition, the ‘clique’ character in Lagos
and Victoria Island art community shed its arrogant weight and moved to Ikeja,
an unusual axis for art events. The occasion was a Lagos, Nigeria stopover for
world tour exhibition of Shonibare's Wind Sculpture VI.
Shonibare,
one of African Diaspora's biggest art exports to the world has been touring
cities with his new public space work, Wind Sculpture series since 2014.
Currently, the sculpture, a six metre high, is on display at Ndubuisi Kanu
Park, MORE.
Organised by Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN), a recent show at Omenka Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos, to mark World Interiors Day, art, craft and other areas of visual arts categorised as accessories in design exposed the economic paradox of Nigeria, where majority live in extreme poverty amidst vast riches of the country.
From paintings, miniature figural and abstract table pieces to ceramics and other works that either serve both decorative and functional purposes such as window blinds and mirrors, the show depict that even in the period of distress, luxury could be an elixir.
The show also offered an opportunity to appreciate the contribution of interior designers to the creative industry, especially in the areas of crafts and arts.
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One of the works from IDAN
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What exactly is World Interiors Day all about? As IDAN president, Anslem Tabansi explained, it’s a yearly global event initiated by the International Federation of Interior Architecture/Designers (IFI) to bring to the public the roles of practitioners in improving the environment.tMORE.
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