Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts

Monday, November 13, 2023

Françoise Gaime Gilot, The Feminist Muse of Pablo Picasso


Artworks in Honour of Françoise Gaime Gilot, The Feminist Muse of Pablo Picasso

To me, Françoise Gaime Gilot was the most beautiful and intellectual of all the Muses of Pablo Picasso.

Attractive and expressive and not submissive like the other women.
She was a feminist.
Her refusal to be submissive annoyed him.

I have done these artworks which I am also going to mint as NFTs in memorial tribute to her.
- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima.

Françoise Gaime Gilot 

(26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023)












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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Highlights from the 2022 Lagos Book and Art Festival

 


Highlights from the 2022 Lagos Book and Art Festival








The 2022 annual Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF) opened on Monday November 14 at the popular Freedom Park on Lagos Island in Nigeria. 
LABAF 2022 is specifically dedicated to Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya, the most phenomenal Nigerian artist and the most published African artist who is famous for his intriguing prints, paintings and sculptures. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C; the Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden, National Museum and National Art Gallery in Lagos among other places in his illustrious career as an iconic visionary of contemporary art in over five decades since 1957 to date. He celebrated his 90th birthday on August 30. 
Onobrakpeya spoke about his life and works as a artist during an exhibition of his installations.  A short documentary film on his popular Harmattan Workshop in his homeplace, Agbarha-Otor, Delta State was screened and Co-founder of CORA and LABAF, the polymath and patron of the arts, Toyin Akinosho spoke on how Onobrakpeya has been part of LABAF from the very beginning.

There was a symposium on "Our Inheritance: What I Took From Bruce" by Barret Akpokabayen, Kunle Adeyemi, Juliet Ezenwa, Oguchukwu Ejiofor and Nse Abasi Inyang.

Later famous veteran artist and administrator, Pa Timothy Adebanjo Fasuyi and Prof. Ebun Clark spoke about the early years of Onobrakpeya from being one of the "Zaria Rebels" at the Ahmadu Bello University whilst studying fine arts to the later years moderated by Mufu Onifade, artist and arts writer.
 



LABAF 2022 on the theme of "Pathways to the Future" runs from November 14-20 at the Freedom Park and virtually via Zoom and on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. 



Acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani's "Saworoide" and "Lift"  by young filmmaker, Abraham Amkpa were screened on the opening day. Kelani was present for the Q&A interactive conversation with the audience on his political film produced in 1999.

LABAF 2022 is the 24th edition of the hybrid international book fair and art festival founded in 1999 by the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), as a literary and visual festival for “freedom of creative expression to herald the rebirth of Democratic governance in Africa’s biggest nation”. There are over 50 books in focus with over 60 independent sessions of literary conversations, visual arts (fine and applied arts and crafts); performances in poetry, drama, dance, music and sociocultural interactions with participants in Nigeria and other countries. 

The Curator/Director, Jahman Anikulapo, said the discourse around "Pathways to the Future" is meant to “figure a way out of the ‘State of Flux’ which led us to a ‘Fork in the Road. See the programmes on https://www.lagosbookartfestival.org.


Sunday, September 5, 2021

Please, Don't Return Nigerian Artworks in Foreign Art Galleries and Museums

Please, Don't Return Nigerian Artworks in Foreign Art Galleries and Museums

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#museums #artcollection #curator #conservation #preservation #drawings #artexhibition

If you see the dilapidated buildings in the National Museum and National Gallery of Arts in Lagos, you will not want the Nigerian artworks in foreign museums to be returned to Nigeria.Because, Nigerians cannot preserve or protect our artworks. They are better preserved and safer in American and European art galleries and museums.

My masterpiece of painting, "Blessed Mother" I made live in the Education Unit of the National Museum in Onikan on the Lagos Island was later missing from the museum and never found till date. Some of my colourful illustrations were missing at the UNICEF in Nigeria in 1988 and not found till date.

The private art galleries don't have the funds and management for the preservation of artworks and many of the galleries have incompetent staff without certification in art curation or preservation. Many galleries have  closed without any any records of the whereabouts of the artworks. I have lost priceless works without trace when custodians relocated without notice.

Nigerians cannot preserve our artworks.
Please, don't return them to Nigeria.


- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima 

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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Yusuf Grillo, the Pablo Picasso of Africa Has Passed On

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Yusuf Grillo Has Passed On

The Pablo Picasso of Africa.
One of the greatest artists of all time alongside my mentor, Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya who is still walking upright and working in his Art Studios at over 88 years.
Grillo was one of the great revolutionary artists of the famous "Zaria Rebels" of the Zaria Art Society of the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology in Zaria that later became the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Kaduna State of northern Nigeria. 

The "Zaria Rebels" led by Uche Okeke, the proponent of the Igbo Uli art in contemporary modern art included included Onobrakpeya, Demas Nwoko, Simon Okeke, Jimoh Akolo, Oseloka Osadebe and Emmanuel Odita. Like Grillo, they were all iconic artists of outstanding genius.

Farewell to the Great Grillo.

Born1934
Brazilian Quarters of Lagos, Nigeria
Passed On23 August 2021 (aged 86)

Monday, April 27, 2009

Unemployed Artist Uses Remaining Cash as Medium for Economic Statement

27 Apr 2009 07:30 Africa/Lagos


Unemployed Artist Uses Remaining Cash as Medium for Economic Statement

TORONTO, Canada, April 27/PRNewswire/ -- A casualty of the 2008 economic crisis, unemployed conceptual artist Brian Rushton Phillips, has used his remaining cash as a medium to comment on the downturn and his own financial uncertainty.


Entitled 'Financial Security (Blanket)', the project incorporates 208 American dollar bills, sewn together with thread, to form a makeshift security blanket.


The fragility of the blanket conjures an oxymoronic image, consistent with the current state of global unemployment, homelessness and financial insecurity.


The work has been pre-released online:


http://www.rushtonphillips.com/financial_security.html.


For further information: and press materials: +1-416-807-1341, mail@rushtonphillips.com


Source: Rushton Phillips Collaborations

For further information: and press materials: +1-416-807-1341, mail@rushtonphillips.com