Michael Armitage : paradise edict / Meek Gichugu [and ten others] ; edited by Anna Schneider.
Publisher: Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 215 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cmContent type:- sti
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- Paradise edict
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Includes art from Meek Gichugu, Jak Katarikawe, Asaph Ng'ethe Macua, Peter Mulindwa, Theresa Musoke, Elimo Njau, Magdalene Odundo, Chelenge van Rampelberg, Edward Saidi Tingatinga and Sane Wadu.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, 4th September 2020-14th February 2021; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 13th March-6th June 2021.
Includes bibliographical references.
Paradise Edict highlights pivotal series by the British-Kenyan painter, Michael Armitage and positions his body of work within East African painting and sculpture of the 20th century. His wide array of subject matter ranges from the relationship between humans and animals, and political events in his native Kenya, to European landscape traditions in opposition to an East African understanding of nature. With large-format oil paintings on lubugo bark cloth, the British-Kenyan painter joins motifs and artistic traditions from Europe and East Africa in a variety of ways, upsetting visual stereotypes and an excepted balance of power in the process. The artist draws inspiration from political events, pop culture, folklore and personal memories, weaving these into mythically charged and dreamlike images.