Jacob AFOLABI
(1940)
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Jacob Afolabi was born
in 1940 in Ikirun, Nigeria. He was the first artist to
flourish from a workshop in Oshogbo, Nigeria in 1962.
While first employed as an actor there, Jacob Afolabi
was soon to become internationally known as a printmaker,
muralist, painter, textile artist and gallery director.
He
is currently working with the African Studies Museum in
Oshogbo.
Afolabi's flowing images
and morph figures are constantly reinvented in various
elastic shapes seemingly in motion.
In some works it is as
if electrical currents send sudden shock waves into the
composition.
One of his murals once
enlivened a gas station wall along one of Oshogbo's main
streets.
source: "30 years of Oshogbo Art",
U. Beier
Selected
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AFOLABI GALLERY
