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ECLECTICA CONTEMPORARY

BOOTH C18

Based in the heart of Cape Town, South Africa, eclectica contemporary sees
itself as an African gallery with an international vision. Four African artists from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, each caught in inherited grievance, yet never wholly defined by their colonial past, each, rather, inspired by the power of painting to shapeshift reality, invoke the fantastical, reinvent an on-going and compromising norm – black abjection, black misrepresentation. Titled ‘It feels like I’m talking to the moon, eclectica contemporary’s contribution to AKAA 2022 is designed to further debate on on-going experimentation in contemporary African painting, its European inspiration, and its diasporic and global impact. A thrilling gamble indeed.

Artists presented at AKAA 2022:
Samson Bakare, Johannes Phokela, Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, Nedia Were

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Samson Bakare +

Samson Bakare (b.1993) is a multidisciplinary Nigerian artist. His work centres around propagation of black identity and values in both contemporary and retrospective context. While representing historical scenes, Samson has been able to document black people in different time and space. His narrative covers portraits of African men and women with blank expressions as they strive for cultural emancipation. The East African Coptic art has been the basic influence in his exploration, even as the theme and subject remains a hybrid of classicism and stylisation which he calls Afro-classicism. Samson has depicted several satirical pieces with an attempt to review the excesses of British imperialism and projecting racial equality. His painting features figures with reconstructed forms and a fusion of comical rendition.

Yet I Blossomed

2022

182.88 x 152.4cm
acrylique sur toile
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Man of the Century

2022

213.36 x 152.4 cm
acrylic on canvas
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Hold the Forte

2022

122 x 122 cm
acrylic on canvas
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Hold the Forte 2

2022

152.4 x 122.4cm
acrylic on canvas
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Johannes Phokela +

Johannes Phokela (b. 1966, Soweto) is a South African artist currently living and working in Johannesburg. Phokela began his formal art career in 1984 at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Academy in Johannesburg, where he obtained a three-year diploma. In 1987, he relocated to London, where he completed a foundation course at Central St. Martins: University of the Arts London before acquiring a bachelor’s degree at Camberwell College of Art: University of the Arts London (1988). He then completed a master’s degree at the Royal College of Art (1993) and remained in London until his permanent return to South Africa in 2006. Phokela has established a distinguished career both locally and internationally.

Upstart and Blowout

2022

59,4 x 42 cm (diptych)
Oil on paper
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Ukthwala - Honeymoon

2022

59,4 x 42 cm
Oil on paper
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Judgement of Paris

2022

42 x 59,4 cm
Oil on paper
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Salon - (Candle Bathing Series)

2022

42 x 59,4 cm
Oil on paper
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Bob-Nosa Uwagboe +

Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, born in 1974 in the Edo State, Nigeria, received his professional education at the famous colorist school, Auchi Polytechnic, where he graduated with a Higher National Diploma in 2004 and specialized in painting. Bob-Nosa, after his one year of mandatory service to the nation as a member of the National Youth Service Corps at Abuja, he relocated to Lagos to set up The Protest Art Studio to transform his creative energy into an experimental path that has resulted into thought provoking themes and oftentimes spark anger, pain, passion and visions that are not often defined by the subject matters and defy the borders usually set by artistic canons. He evokes emotion with his art in which he employs diverse materials which seem unconnected at first. He often succeeds in challenging the audience to become more deeply involved with his work provoking varied interpretations and reflections mostly concerned with issues of falsehood, deception, bad leadership and reaching to the unreached.

Unlabelled 2

2022

122 x 183 cm
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
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14500€
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Resistance

2022

86 x 91.5 cm
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
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7500,00 €
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My pride

2022

137 x 168 cm
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
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14500€
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Good news

2022

86 x 91.5 cm
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
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7500€
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Nedia Were +

Born and raised in Kenya, self taught artist Nedia Were is based in Nairobi city. His deep desire to create started during his childhood, when he would copy cartoons from newspapers, magazines and comic books while recreated them in his own likeness and image. Were is the first prize award winner of the Manjano Art Competition and he has participated in a number of exhibitions both local and international. Were’s artwork is a visual response to the discourse surrounding representation of African figures within the Visual Art realm especially within art learning institutions and Art History. The artist interrogates traditional notions of beauty. The artist challenges western ideas of modern beauty within the canon of painting, with a specific focus on figurative paintings and portraiture. The human figure is a recurring motif in his Were’s work so as to reflect on beauty, taste, politics and the society.

Omukhana

2022

100 x 120 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
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Feel langa (I feel free)

2022

237 x 153 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
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Portrait of Wasike

2022

120 x 120 cm
Acrylic on canvas
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VAKHANA VA VAGA

2022

240 x 230 cm
Acrylic on canvas
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Vambotso Vaviri I (The two brothers)

2022

122 x 122 cm
Acrylic on canvas
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Vambotso Vaviri II (The two brothers II)

2022

122 x 122 cm
Acrylic on canvas
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