ART NEWS

Brighter Future, 4ft x 3ft, Oil on Canvas by Nathaniel Ogunyale

Arthouse is organizing the fifth edition of the annual Affordable Art Auction at the Kia Showroom in Lagos. This event will come up in March.

The aim of this show is to  boost the interest of young and new collectors by presenting works at accessible prices, under one million Nigerian naira. Art buyers, connoisseurs and art lovers can be looking forward to the show. More details will be provided  here later.

In Memoriam: Prof. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir.

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

On the 29th of December 2019, the African arts community lost one of its most committed and brilliant scholars, Prof. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. 

 Sidney occupied a crucial place in the lives and careers of many scholars of her and the following generations.

She was seen last at the Triennial in Ghana in 2017 where ACASA formally recognized her distinguished contributions to the field of global African art as a scholar, teacher, and mentor.

 She will be remembered for her pioneering work on contemporary African art as well as her research among Idoma and related peoples of the Niger/Benue confluence.

Our hands are clean

Another painting by Nathaniel Ogunyale 

Title: Our Hands Are Clean: Oil,Torn paper on Canvas, 4ft by 3ft.

This painting highlights the deceptive nature of man in attempt to always wanting to prove innoncence while having one thing or the other to hide.

Jollof Rice- An Installation

One Day Exhibition of An Installation

Jollof Rice: An Installation Art produced by Nathaniel Ogunyale in commemoration of Lagos State Polytechnic's 40th Anniversary

The Origins of Procreation

The Origins Of Procreation
Legends Of Africa 

 

Long ago a man and a woman came down from heaven, while another man and woman came out of the ground. The Lord of Heaven also sent a python, the non-poisonous snake, which made its home in a river. In the beginning men and women had no children, they had no desire for one another and did not know the process of procreation and birth.

 It was the Python who taught them. He asked the men and women if they had any children, and on being told that they had none, the Python said he would make the women conceive. He told the couples to stand facing each other, then he went into the river and came out with his mouth full of water. This he sprayed on their bellies, saying "Kus, kus" (words that are still used in clan rituals). Then the Python told the couples to go home and lie together, and the women conceived and bore children. 

These children took the spirit of the river where the Python lived as their clan spirit. Members of that clan hold the python as taboo; they must never kill it, and if they find a python that has died or been killed by someone else, they put white clay on it and bury it human fashion.

The hunter and the lion

The Hunter And The Lion

 Folktales Legend (Nigeria)

There was a hunter who often went into the bush to hunt. Hunting was his work. No other work was so sweet to him as hunting. Every day he was trying to find where the most game could be seen. The bush was all known to him. He knew that in some places there was game and in other places there was none.

One day when the hunter was far in the bush looking for game, he heard a noise that sounded like something coming toward him, but he could not see anything. In a moment he saw a large lion almost on top of him, and it was coming toward him. The lion was so near that it was no use to think of running. The hunter trembled with fear, for he did not know what the lion was going to do with him. Any moment the lion might catch him and kill him. Even if he had wanted to run he had no strength in his legs, because they were shaking.

The ram and his friend

The ram and his friend

Folktales Legend (Nigeria)

There was a ram and his mother and his sister. Every day they would go for a walk. One day his mother and his sister went away and left him. He ran about trying to find them. 

He came to a friend, another ram, and said, "Friend, did you see our womenfolks go along here?" The ram said, "No, I did not see your women folks here. Only your mother and your sister. I saw them pass here, but I never have seen your women folks."

The ram said, "Never did I see any one so dumb as you are. You are the dumbest person left in the world. Who is my mother, not to mention my sister? If a man has a mother and a sister, they are like a wife to him. Or is a mother not a woman? 

You are dumb, my mother is my head woman. A wife will do for you the same things which a mother will do for you."

This thing is true. A mother and a wife are about alike. 
Some say that a wife is better than a mother, but it is not true.

What do you think?