Hmmm!!!....
'What runs through the mind of an artist before the birth of a true masterpiece?' This is a question that plagues everyone, especially in today's chaotic world where your identity is easily lost.
The response to this inquiry is the thing that I have embarked to discover in my visit to 'Characters', a presentation at Denk Spaces. At the passageway to the exhibition was a presentation by the showing craftsman Erasmus Onyishi. What had at first had all the earmarks of being a negligible tangle of wires and mess took frame upon more watchful perception as a settlement of ants walking up the divider. This blended media piece, Straightforwardly Shut, was maybe what opened our brains to the presence of different types of workmanship separated from authenticity, an idea we had been pretty much shut off to.
Venturing into the building, eyes started to load up with ponder. Each different work was a vivid and vivacious articulation of the equivalent, unique subject: Personality. The displaying specialists had recognized themselves through their work by their decisions of shading, line, surface and frame, and each work spoke to us all in various ways. One of Henry Eghosa's expressive works, portraying a lady during the time spent dressing in customary clothing appeared to whisper, our way of life is our pride. Stephen Osuchukwu, in his honorable version of an elephant crowd, attracted center to the female authority elephant whose initiative position is relatively synonymous with its personality. This female cow is the most seasoned and biggest in the crowd and is in charge of driving the elephant group. Their survival lays on her expansive shoulders. On more profound reflection we understand that, maybe, we are a kind of authority when we are given administration positions.
Obinna Makata, in his work Excellence More profound than Beauty care products II, drives us to understand the need to keep up our own one of a kind characters in our current reality where society directs what to wear, how we should look and, eventually, who we progress toward becoming. Another work of his, Of Race and Character, discloses to us Africans that we don't really fit in with the name [Black], however our personalities are rainbows of shading, in light of the fact that there is a sprinkle of something uncommon in every last one of us. His cunning work of Ankara underlines distinction. Similarly as every Ankara design gets its excellence from its interesting example, so we get our own from our distinction in personalities.
Guarantee O'nali, whose novel style would recognize him in the most remote corners of the world, gives us another interpretation of the term, character. Since who are we, truly? It is something to be profoundly reflected upon. His works, in a cool and basic way, prompt the watcher to watch the unpredictability of man's adventure through life, and the steady fight to keep up his actual self.
Toward the finish of this really rousing and educational presentation, I returned nearly on an alternate plane of psyche. I had taken away one general exercise. In the expressions of Mr. Nnoli, "Craftsmanship is constantly engaged with our lives... It opens the way to our individual innovativeness."
What's more, in reality, I have genuinely been propelled to open those entryways, and reach for the enchantment in more imaginative ways.