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Ikechukwu Andrew Emueze holds Art Exhibition

Ikechukwu Andrew Emueze holds Art Exhibition –

Contemporary African Art

One of Nigerian’s foremost artistes, Ikechukwu Andrew Emueze of Foundation for Black Heritage (FOBHE) has scheduled to hold a solo exhibition. The exhibition titled Harvest will be held at Imperial Chinese Restaurant, Victoria Island Lagos from the 1st of April ,2011 till the end of the month. According to the artist who believes that Nature is the greatest artiste ,the exhibition with the theme “Harvest is a collection of the various phases my work has undergone” he notes.

Emueze whose work is currently evolving, believes that art is his medium of communication. “I paint to pass a message, using different mediums and styles, but recently my style has changed. My art work is becoming more simplified because I have come to the realization that every thing in life should be simplified”. According to Prince Debo Akingbade, Executive Director of Imperial Chinese Restaurant, the exhibition would be a detailed revelation of the originality and artistic nature of Andrew Emueze , whose work is very inspirational.

Emueze has organised many solo exhibitions amongst them are: Crossroad of Style and Civilization held in Alliance Française, Ilorin Kwara State in 1997, Christmas fiesta held in Alliance Française, in 1998, Searching held in Lagos in 2000, That I might See held in Apapa Lagos in 2001 and others.

by Esther Onyegbula

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Peter Sibanda – Contemporary South African Artist

“Peter Sebanda is so literal and exact that this becomes his strength and signature. Graduate of the Open Window Art Academy, his glossy, lush, detailed paintings depict woman, mostly black, in surroundings so opulent as to be positively palatial. With colour so rich, intense and glowing that it seems more Technicolor than pigment, with meticulous detail and hallucinatory finish, these works are a species of Grand Kitsch. I can compare them to no other artist except that master of kitsch, the Amarican Jeff Koons.

Yet Sibanda also refers, via Hollywood and Disneyworld, to Africa, a specifically contemporary South African. He reflects a very beautiful black middle class and its aspirations while offering a critique of its advance into luxury and decadence. ‘The Splash’ which I would never attempt to interpret in a short article such as this, is one of the most bizarre, puzzling and fascinating paintings I have seen.

Do not miss this exhibition which, I would go so far as to suggest, heralds a new era in South African art with a new generation of artists. African Renaissance, perhaps?

(Ingrid Stevens)”

Peter Sibanda was born in 1972, Mabopane, North West.

He attended Pimville Primary School in Pimville Township near Soweto and in 1983 attended Fortune Kunene Primary School and later Illinge High School in Vosloorus Township on the East Rand.

1990 he was moved to Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria where he completed his Matric at Phelindabe High School.

In 1993 he moved to Soshanguve, north of Pretoria where he now reside.

Artistic Profile

During the process of developing his art interest, a female librarian from Vosloorus took him for a visit to the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1987, that visit stimulated his interest in the arts. Later that year he began private lessons offered freely at the Johannesburg Art Gallery under the guidance of Michelle Jersky and Stanford Cher, up until early 1990 when he moved to Pretoria.

1995 – 1997 he studied art at the Open Window, School of Visual Communication, and obtained a higher Diploma in Fine Art and a certificate in Visual Communication.

He began painting full time in 1997 after his first group exhibition.

Group Exhibitions

2007 September – Cape Town Group Exhibition

2007 ‘Saint Sebastian Exhibition’ – Association of Arts, Pretoria

2006 ‘Celebrating Rembrandt’ – Association of Arts, Pretoria

2004 ‘Pretoria’- Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town

2000 ‘Resent work’ by Peter Sibanda and ‘Living masks’ by George Rock’

1999
# ‘8 former students’
# ‘B(L)ACK by popular demand’1997
# ‘Extentions’- The Open Window Gallery, Pretoria
# ‘Little Germs’- The Open Window Gallery, PretoriaAchievements in Art Competitions

July 2007 Won ‘The Coke Side of Life’ Competition held by the (ABI) Amalgamated Beverage Industries

Finalist in the following National Art Competitions
# 1998 – Sasol New Signatures
# 2000 – Ekurhuleni Fine Art Awards
# 2001 – ABSA Atelier
# 2004 – Johannesburg Art City ProjectArt and Design

Stamp Designs In 2001 he was commissioned by the South African Post Office to design the first international letter rate postage stamp, and a commemorative envelope for the Johannesburg World Summit held in August 2002.
# 2002 designed the Aids Awareness Stamp Booklet, containing 10 self-adhesive stamps for the South African Post Office. Other parts of these stamps were on the cover, of the November – December edition, of Setempe Magazine.
# 2004 commissioned by the Philatelic Services in Silverton, to design 5 postage stamps as well as a commemorative envelope, for the Post Office, in celebration and commemoration of 10 years of a democratic South Africa.
# 2005 asked by the Philatelic Services in Silverton, to design 2 Christmas Postage Stamps as well as a commemorative envelope, for the South African Post Office. These were issued on the 3rd of October 2005. Other commissions
# 2004 commissioned to paint a portrait of Mr.F.Titi, a former CEO of ARMSCO in Erasmuskloof Art Collections
# ARMSCO
# Telkom
# Pretoria Art Museum
# Philatelic Services
# Private Collection