African art collecting picks up
More African individuals and businesses are spending on or investing in art than a few years earlier, with the focus on contemporary art produced by artists on the African continent or in locations elsewhere , anecdotal evidence and art market trends suggest. There’s also an emerging trend toward restitution of historical cultural materials now outside Africa. At Bonhams’ sale 21 May 2014, entitled Africa Now and billed...
Victor Ehikhamenor’s Contemporary Magic
Chronicles of The Enchanted World is the title of a selling exhibition of a selection of paintings and sculptural installations by Victor Ehikhamenor, on display 21 May -19 July 2014 at London’s Gallery of African Art, writes SAJID RIZVI. Ehikhamenor’s reputation traverses disciplines. He’s an artist and photographer, raconteur and writer of short stories and, imminently (we hear), a novel.(1) There’s something...
Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga: Transformation
A new exhibition of works by Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga opens in London 12 September 2013, the first solo show by the Kenya-born artist in the British capital. The works in the October Gallery London exhibition 12 September – 26 October 2013 are predominantly wall-hanging sculptures created from tin cans, steel wire and oxidised sheet metal forms. While the techniques Gakunga uses are common to the fibre arts across many traditions,...
africa95, Africa05 and beyond: El Anatsui in conversation with Sajid Rizvi
The artist El Anatsui, featured in the Royal Academy Summer Show 2013, spoke to Sajid Rizvi, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Eastern Art Report and publisher of the first book on the artist’s work (El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa | Buy this book) at the opening of his exhibition at the October Gallery, London, in August 2005. Below are edited excerpts: Sajid Rizvi. What has happened since africa95 in the world of...
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