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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Two African Contemporary Art Shows





Richard Onyango - Peponi Crossing Garsen Ferry in 1979 - Acrylic on canvas


Peterson Kamwathi - Kumbu Kumbu Woodcut print

Hi!
Welcome to African Works - we are dedicated to the collection, promotion and sale of contemporary African Art.

If you are in or near Kenya, let me start by inviting you to two shows!

Paintings, prints and sculpture by eight exciting contemporary artists from Zimbabwe and Kenya
at The Talisman Restaurant, Karen, Nairobi on Tuesday 14th August

from 6.00 pm to August 27th 2007

and

New works by Richard Onyango, Peterson Kamwathi and Ed Cross
at Gallery Baraka, Lamu

Private View with Drinks 6.00 pm Saturday August 18th, to 15th September 2007
Richard Onyango is one of Kenya's most celebrated artists, long collected by the doyen of African contemporary art collecting, Jean Pigozzi for his Collection of Contemporary Art in Switzerland www.caacart.com/ and exhibited in Africa Remix, the Venice Biennale and several other major international shows in Europe and the USA. In this group of work we see Richard turning his attention to both Lamu and the roads and ferries to Lamu from the seventies and eighties. Using his extraordinary powers of concentration and photographic memory he is able to "rewind the video cassette " as he puts it, and faithfully reconstruct the specific buses, boats and scenes from his boyhood of thirty years ago. I will be posting more about Richard's work in future...
Peterson Kamwathi is one of Kenya's rising art stars, a master printer who has trained at the London College of Printing, Peterson brings a purity of vision and purpose which is exceptional, his work is also unusually "contemporary" in that it has both conceptual and spiritual elements to it.

Those unable to attend but who would like to see more or better quality images of the work - please let me know by email at ed.r.cross@gmail.com

I have posted here some images of work from both shows - with more to follow - if you would like to know more details and prices, please email me.

All the Best

ed




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