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54 results for “Ibrahim Buhari Gambo”
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Start at the white star in the centre and follow one petal outward. Ibrahim packs leaves, scrolls and hatching so densely that every return…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Janus 2 moves in close: two heavy-browed profiles fill the square, a hatched teardrop beneath each eye, a black diamond hanging where they …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Two faces in profile, back to back, and a flower opening exactly between them. Ibrahim gives the Roman god of doorways a playing-card symme…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
In the rest of Made in Lagos a yellow sun shines over the scene. Above the Central Mosque, Anth Ezeokoye turns it into a crescent moon. It …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Where ethnic sentiment is used to divide, Clement Obioha paints Nigeria's three largest peoples as one band: three instruments, three voice…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
There is a moment when something long known becomes clear. Mikenobi gives it a carved face, in the spirit of the Igbo carvings that give fo…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
Silk has always meant luxury. Mayowa Enoch Aiyedogbon gives the word to Ankara, wrapping a woman in Nigeria's beloved wax-print cloth: our …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Look at her ears: two steel hex nuts where gold should be. Yemisi wears a crown of beaded tendrils and two sharpened red combs. KeO makes h…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
KeO calls her a mask depicting the beauty of a young lady. He then gives her a tongue stuck out at the viewer and a star for a beauty mark.…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
The building every Lagosian can draw from memory, its roof shaped like a general's cap, with a working crane standing beside it. Anth Ezeok…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
About twenty insects, each on its own thread, lift a rhinoceros that seems entirely at peace with the arrangement. Anth Ezeokoye's pen draw…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
An homage to the rapper who made Igbo sound like the obvious choice. Clement Obioha exaggerates the beard and the bulk and leaves the side-…
