Gallery/Dealer Photos (1)
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Aime Mpane
Bright Bimpong
Diako
Donald Locke
El Anatsui
Etiye Dimma Poulsen
Frank Bowling
Mohammad Omer Khalil
Obiora Udechukwu
Osi Adu
SoHyun Bae
Tayo Adenaike
Tesfaye Tessema
Wosene Worke Kosrof
Pefura
Juliana Zevallos
Owusu-Ankomah
Olu Amoda
Uche Okeke |
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Sample Art Work (2)
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Afi Nayo
Suites of Love
mixed media
September 6th - October 13th, 2007 |
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
NYTimes
ART IN REVIEW;
Aime Mpane -- Bach to Congo
By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: January 19, 2007
Skoto Gallery
529 West 20th Street, Chelsea
Through Jan. 27
As one of New York's very few full-time commercial spaces devoted mainly to contemporary African art, Skoto Gallery is worth keeping an eye on. Its present show is a strong solo by the Congolese-born artist Aime Mpane, who divides his time between Kinshasa and Brussels.
Skoto's front gallery is given over to large sculptural installations that address Western pillaging of Africa, military and cultural, that gained full force in the late 19th century and continues. In one piece a tiny sculptural figure of a European soldier casts a huge drawn shadow on the gallery wall. In another, shown at the 2006 Dakar Biennial, the life-size figure of an African man, made entirely from matchsticks, stares at a grave marked 1885, the year Africa was definitively carved up and distributed among several European nations.
Even with colonialism ended, the mining of African culture continues, as suggested in a third sculpture, of the German... [ Read all ] |
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Exhibition Photos (10)
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SKOTO GALLERY 529 West 20th Street, 5FL.
New York, NY 10011 212-352 8058
skoto.gallery@verizon.net www.skotogallery.com
National Theater, 2007, steel, conduit pipe, nails, 24x19x18 inches.
Olu Amoda
Head & Tie: Fashion Architectonic
May 10th – June 30th, 2007
Skoto Gallery is pleased to present "Head & Tie: Fashion Architectonic ", an exhibition of welded steel and mixed media sculptures by the Nigerian-born sculptor Olu Amoda. The reception will be on Thursday, May 10th, 5-8pm and the artist will be present.
Olu Amoda's sculpture has always sparked critical engagement with the public due to his ability to create engaging works that address some of the relevant issues of our time, as it attempts to investigate how individual perspective and reality is influenced by societal group consciousness, treating memory as a cultural rather an individual faculty. To the artist, art must engage individuals in a very deep and personal way, and in ways that may not be shared by every member of the society, art also can forge common bonds among various groups and since the creative process is al... [ Read all ] |
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Location And Getting There |
529 West 20th Street, 5FL.
New York, NY 10011
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Skoto Aghahowa
Alix du Serech
Directors |
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Tuesday - Saturday,
11am to 6pm |
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