... experience as artist, poet and philosopher. 46»Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art he Nigerian artist and poet Obiora Udechukwu is perhaps While in the past he concentrated on the rhetoric of line and best known as one the who redefined...

... for an Before a going and coming was held at Enugu from tion featured artists such as onslaught on his people. In November 2-9 where it drew Obiora Udechukwu, Chike Ani• the painting the General's that goes...

... may a studio apartment and a monthly hibition (Sewhenu Akran, Kunle Filani, Obiora Udechukwu has remarked on his have seen the walaa used for the calli• stipend for the duration of his stay. The Don Akatakpo, Wole...

.... There is lated by Uli scholars from Uche Okeke to Obiora a profound impact on the history of Nigerian art. a justification behind the connection, however, Udechukwu, the art relies on the lyrical power of The art department was started in 1961, but dur• because a majority...

... him among a line-up of young, highly achieving African cultural practitioners in Britain in the past two decades, which includes Dambudzo Marechera, Ben Okri, and the Grammy Award-winning performers, Seal and Shade. In the Fall, Obiora Udechukwu held a most engaging exhibition of new work...

... are represented at major international expositions where their presence has so far been spotty at best. With a board made up of such major African cultural figures as Sudanese artist Ibrahim El Salahi, Nigerian artist and academic, Obiora Udechukwu, the curator Okwui Enwezor, director of the South African...

..., and telegraphic mode. In these scious artist. In the fashion of lence on other persons based on threatening clouds of color series, her ink and pencil dots her notable mentors-Obiora their perceived...

... as a particularly "Study for Fallen Dreamer," show Obiora Udechukwu, both of the faculty of main motif, and both raised essential ques• us the sphere with it's coordinates traced...

..., was chaired jointly by Alloy Ohaegbu and February, both artists used the sphere as a particularly "Study for Fallen Dreamer," show Obiora Udechukwu, both of the faculty of main motif...

... hibition (Sewhenu Akran, Kunle Filani, Obiora Udechukwu has remarked on his have seen the walaa used for the calli• stipend for the duration of his stay. The Don Akatakpo, Wole Lagunju, etc.) ability to work in a difficult color...

... devices, engaging employment of the cyclic perspective. these are consciously turned into potent signs of not just Throughout the 1970s Egonu continued to simplify temporality, transience, or modernist rebellion, but his form in what Obiora Udechukwu has...

... Obiora Udechukwu AFRICA in VENICE...

..., paint, and lacquer. Collection of Obiora and Ada Udechukwu. Courtesy the artist slow that there is no need for me draw a sketch. I develop EA: We would break it into several sections. The first one the works organically. I start from a point and it grows accu- would be to do a series of units...

... at the University 66 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 33 • Fall 2013 of Nigeria, Nsukka. There, under the leadership School came by way of his training at the Obafemi of Okeke, the next generation of artists — which Awolowo University in Ife, where in the late 1980s included Obiora...

... in English, and and their libraries. this is comparable to the situation for most of Afri- This raises another question: Obiora Udechukwu can art history. There is no reason why a history of said, at the ACASA meeting in New York in 1995, European Renaissance art could not be written and that the best...

...: In response to the first question Nsukka. Even though I was nineteen at the time, from Chika I would say that my first real engage- El Anatsui let me sit behind him in his studio and ment with African contemporary art was through watch him work. Obiora and Ada Udechukwu had the ill-­fated TransCape...