Original Story Published by: Tony Okuyeme for New Telegraph
The Wheatbaker is set to host the Contemporaries II in celebration of the Nigerian Independence Day. It will showcase 38 sculptures, paintings, and mixed media works by three avant-garde contemporary artists: Kainebi Osahenye, Kenny Adewuyi and Kelani Abass.
The Contemporaries II exhibition, which is supported by the Wheatbaker and Louis Guntrum Wines, and runs from October 1st, 2018 to January 15th, 2019, presents strong visual narratives and powerful figurative abstractions which explore historic socio-political narratives, the dignity of labour, technology, and the environment vis-a-vis unbridled consumerism.
“The Contemporaries II marks the nations’ 58th Independence Day, presenting three artists who have contributed significantly to the vibrancy of Nigeria’s contemporary art scene.”
Osahenye combines spray paint with oil, pastel, and acrylic, experimenting with dynamic fluency and fluidity to explore figurative gestures which interrogate society’s insatiability vis-a-vis the earth’s limited natural resources.
Kelani creates intricate multi-media works, in which small mechanical parts retrieved from his family’s printing press, are layered with photographs and archival materials as the artist ex plores personal stories against the background of social and political events frozen in time and memory. His ‘man and machine’ series on canvas explore the interchangeable co-dependency between man and technology.
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