By Iminza Keboge
Published July 2, 2018
Nairobi National Museum (NNM) has announced that it shall host two month-long art exhibitions from July 5, 2018.
While Amalgamation by Drishti Chawla is a show of paintings, John ‘Silver’ Kimani and Clinton Kirkpatrick shall be showing
monotype and woodcut prints in their joint exhibition titled Life and Other Fictions.
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Amalgamation runs July 5 – 31 in Creativity Gallery and Life and Other Fictions July 6 – 31 in Creativity Gallery. The Art
Curator at NNM says Both shows shall remain open 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM daily.
The opening of the two shows is free, NNM says, but visits on other days shall attract the usual entry fee to the National Museums of Kenya’s sites and monuments.
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Meanwhile, NoonPowell Fine Art in the United Kingdom is introducing the work of Eigil Nordstrom, a Norwegian contemporary artist to art lovers.
The starting point of the work by Nordstrom, NoonPowell Fine Art says, is the experience of light.
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“His process of painting involves the act of recollecting sensations of atmosphere and light, while also allowing the fluidity of paint to surprise, to pretend it is a flicker of light on a surface,” NoonPowell Fine Art says.
The way light presents itself in memories from the Norwegian mountains, or the way it is trapped in a box, pouring in through an opening and assuming the guise of a tangible substance on the floor.
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Born in 1991, Nordstrom moved from Trondheim, Norway, to the UK to study fine art at The Art Academy, followed by a Master of Arts degree at City and Guilds. He was awarded the ArtGemini Prize in 2014.
