The works reflect the thoughts process of the émigré but where a less competent artist would have presented gloomy and depressing images we have an exuberance borne out of his choice of colours which manage to save the portraits from depressing the viewer.
Rele art gallery presents “You May Enter” a solo exhibition by contemporary Nigerian artist Tonia Nneji from 2pm on November...
A 1987 graduate of Film as Fine Art from Central St. Martin's School of Art, Zak Ove worked in film and music, collaborating with bands such as Soul 2 Soul. Fascinated by the new direction of black music, he said he engaged often with the question of “how do I translate the screaming of hip hop music like Public Enemy into something static; how do you make a sculpture scream?”
‘For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.’ – Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor After the Federal Government of...
In a popularity contest between the male and female body, the female body will win. Yet, in a battle of...
Kainebi Osahenye is soft spoken, self-effacing but prodigiously talented. Usually not the tallest man in the room, he however produces...
The first time I heard about autism was in the movie Rain Man starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. It...
Zinno Akpoghene Orara better known as Zinno Orara needs no introduction. One of the very first contemporary Nigerian artists to...
Ike Ude’s portrait of Nollywood’s actors, actresses and directors is currently showing at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art...
Most visitors to Holland, even those making a brief stop-over at Schiphol airport, almost always leave with a porcelain ceramic...
Nigerian art has been missing a critical element, sculpture has been relegated and Rele has opened up a critical conversation
Peju Oshin’s debut at the Gagosian may have broken footfall records for an opening night but its relevance lies beyond attendance numbers. It lies more in the urgent conversations it has managed to open up around issues that resonate in contemporary diasporic discourse.