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84 results for “edo benin bronze art”
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
A building made of angles, drawn so that it seems to move while standing still. Anth Ezeokoye catches the Civic Centre from the road, with …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Clement's feminist is a woman who builds the life of her dreams, carries a man's load and keeps a woman's kindness. He paints that double s…
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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. 19/20Curator's Note
The subject is the child. Godwin Edet Munam's masked ancestors sit with their backs to a crowned infant, guarding it, praying for it and fe…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Deep blue-black skin, a gold halo, heavy pearls at the throat, arms folded close. Dayo turns the figure away from us and lowers the eyes, a…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Heiwa is Japanese for peace, and Ezeh crowns the drawing with heavy block characters above a hand rising out of swirling waves. Then a ribb…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
A butterfly's beauty is half the story; the rest is the change it took. Ekundayo dresses three women for the moment of emerging, the one at…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Her face is drawn in black and white while everything around her blooms in colour. Then you notice the hand resting on her shoulder, the on…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
One plane parked, one lifting away: the two halves of every trip home. Anth Ezeokoye spells the airport's name across the terminal exactly …
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Awẹlẹwà, the slender, beautiful one, carries what Funmilayo Tejumola calls the hope of an African renaissance. Under a gold-beaded fringe h…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
A ring of white light, one eye flaring like a star, an ochre robe over a bare shoulder. Dayo paints Christ as a young African man with a fu…
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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…
