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15 results for “Sandro Perovic”
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Two feline goddesses walk hand in hand: Mafdet, cheetah-headed, holding up a bleeding heart, and Bastet, grey and cat-headed, raising her s…
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STU. 20/20Curator's Note
Egyptian art usually kept its kings remote. Sandro Perovic gives his pharaoh a family and lets them touch. A hand rests on a shoulder, a ba…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
Ai_mayor reduces the person to a black outline, eyes closed, and still makes it the calmest thing in the frame. Flowers, stripes and a purp…
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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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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
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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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
The face is all there, looking straight at us, and still it nearly vanishes. Black and white marbling runs across the features until skin b…
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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
The face is filled with black, leaving only silver eyes and lips, so the person stays unnamed. The one bright, living thing is a red and bl…
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STU. 59/60● Selling FastCurator's Note
Some women do not wait to be noticed. Ekundayo leaves her body as pencil and paints only the chartreuse dress, and her carriage does the re…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
Everything here pulls toward the pale circle at the centre, and one thin white line cuts straight through it. That line, Aiyedogbon says, i…
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