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Shrinking sources, generated from financial survival, and resulting in displacement of individuals as key components confronting coverage makers the world over, stray into the palette of Nyemike Onwuka. With what seems just like the artist’s new interval in geometric artwork, the central theme about migration will get louder in his mixed oeuvre and new strategies.


Merely titled Exodus, Onwuka’s physique of labor, which simply confirmed at Signature Past Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos, hoves over two weak victims of financial and political migrations: girls and kids. Curiously, the artist’s Exodus isn't just an extension of documented info, from which reference could possibly be tapped, but additionally embrace his "personal experience" and encounter with some victims outdoors Nigeria.


From a distinct signature of scratched canvas that creates aging notion, Onwuka, in Exodus, provides his new fashion, a checkered-like patterns described by the exhibition’s curator, Burns Effiom, as "new cubism." And why not? Contemporaneity is increasing the artwork area throughout genres, such that one can’t actually query a coinage similar to "new cubism" a time period in Onwuka’s artwork vocabulary, derived from the early twentieth-century artwork motion linked to Pablo Picasso and Georges Brasque.


As complicated as that coinage is, the paintings concerned resembling Hidden Manufacturers sequence Saved Inside, Mild On the Exit, Unbroken, and Blurred Fantasies, assert the artist’s depth of strains and mixing such with fragility of multicolour utility to retain strong picture that boosts the portraiture themes in producing an embossed impact. Extra emphatic is the optical impact generated, notably in Blurred Fantasies collection.


As regards the theme, Onwuka shares his expertise of how "young girls are compelled into intercourse slavery abroad," even within the so-referred to as superior democracy of western international locations. The survival of the twenty first century, he laments, make "women and kids most susceptible.


With a contemporary discovered love in ‘new cubism’, it seems just like the artist is regularly resting the scratched and decaying canvas approach, isn’t it? "I am not accomplished but with it," Onwuka clarifies. Sure, so it appears; paintings from the methods nonetheless dominate the exhibition.


"As artwork has no boundaries, so is my method and magnificence," Onwuka assures.

The extra one tries to create ventilation for Onwuka’s new cubism voc to flee by contemporary area, the additional a conviction of complexity turns into salient. However the curator of Exodus, Effiom defends the artist’s idea of ‘new cubism’:"Onwuka is bridging the hole and bringing the contemporary into the avant garde."


A curatorial word from Effiom explains additional: "The artist favours fragmentations and geometrical kinds. He has diminished his presentation to cubes and geometrical kinds thus heightening his discourse. As a result of colours have varieties and sub-varieties, this swirling vitality is even juxtaposed along with his extra fashionable oeuvres.


"His visible language is embedded with sympathy and empathy that evokes building of communities by humanity, utilizing painting and set up. Human persona as topic.


He delivers a strong message whereas searching for options and creating options as if in settlement that in each problem, so lies the seeds of answer.


"Tangible and intangible symbols fused collectively manifests in objects; colours; concepts that bellows his narrative additional for a essential mass that he so needs to entry the hope he intends for his topics in Exodus.


"The use of set up might be of any form. However the concern right here is visible artwork.