By Iminza Keboge
Published October 17, 2019
A three-month exhibition of art by some of Tanzania’s best known practitioners is running at Nairobi Galley in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, till January 13, 2020.
The work on show includes that the famed Tinga Tinga style artists like George Lilanga whose art graced many exhibitions of African contemporaries in Düsseldorf (Germany), Paris (France), London (England) and Tokyo (Japan); Robino Ntila, a visual artist, curator and critic whose work ranges from realist to abstract, mixing cubism with aspects of African silhouettes;and Abdul Mkura whose style changed during US America-led war against Iraq when he started using black as a background of his work.
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Also being exhibited in the show dubbed Legendary Artists of Tanzania is the work of Mohamed Wasia Charinda, Muzu Suleimani, Aggrey Mwasha, Claud Chantanda and Joseph Lyombo.
The 90-day exhibition is presented by National Museums of Kenya’s Nairobi Gallery and Joseph Murumbi Trust.
Coming on the weekend of October 25 – 27, 2019 is the annual Affordable Art Show –cum-fundraiser that is touted as being the ‘biggest art event in East Africa’.
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Kenya Museum Society (KMS), the organisers of the event, say on show and sale shall be more than 300 pieces of art and that the funds raised shall be used in supporting National Museums of Kenya (NMK).
The venue for this ‘unmissable event’, i.e ‘An event you can’t afford to miss!’, is the Courtyard, Former Administration Building, Nairobi National Museum on Museum Hill.
Tickets may be booked via phone 0724 255 299, 0780 755 231 and 020 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org.
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Then comes the International Art Show of Surrealism of the 21st century featuring the work of Radhika Menon of India, Nikolina Petolas of Croatia, Paula Rosa and Santiago Ribeiro of Portugal from October 29, 2019.
Titled Surrealism of Goa, Zagreb, Lisbon, Coimbra and organised by Santiago Ribeiro in partnership with José Simão Mayor of Santa Clara, this exhibition shall be presented at Rainha Santa Isabel Memorial Art Gallery in Santa Clara in the city of Coimbra in Portugal.
Radhika Menon comes from Kerala in South India where she attended primary education prior to relocating to Mumbai and then moving to Goa where she currently
lives. Her art has been exhibited in Brazil and Indonesia. She shall be exhibiting for the very first time in Portugal.
Nikolina Petolas, on the other hand, lives and works in Zagreb from where she sends her work to exhibition around the world.
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Paula Rosa lives and works in Lisbon, where she also promotes her art worldwide. She has participated in many national and international exhibitions.
All the three artists exhibiting in Coimbra are part of the International Surrealism Now, touted as being the largest exhibition of the surrealist art of the 21st century that was first organized by the Bissaya Barreto Foundation in 2010.
Santiago Ribeiro, the curator of International Surrealism Now, says he has since 2010 exhibited his art in Germany, Russia, USA, Poland, France, England, China, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Monte Negro, Romania, Japan, Taiwan and Brazil.
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