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84 results for “edo benin bronze art”
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
St. Clvtch gives the warrior spirit within him an ancestral face: a Benin-inspired mask honouring his Edo roots, worn over a body in heavy …
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
The collar is the detail to find: wide, white and a little old-fashioned, worn with complete confidence. Ekundayo keeps her face in quick p…
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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
KeO turns a girl's name into a playing card. There is a looping A in the corners, a mask at the centre, and in place of a body, a comb. Abi…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
In Nigeria, a celebration has not begun until someone dances. Ekundayo catches three dancers at its height, faces left in soft pencil, the …
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
Everyone has made this face, and everyone has received it. Ekundayo leaves the young man in loose pencil and spends his only paint on a ban…
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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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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-…
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STU. 60/60Curator's Note
The cheekiest of KeO's named cards: lashes lowered, tongue out, and a pair of combs hung at her ears as earrings. He takes the humblest too…
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COLL. 30/30Curator's Note
A woman's head floats a hand's width above her shoulders and casts its own shadow. Clement Obioha turns the caricaturist's instinct inward,…
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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
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…
