| Kule Ingozi |
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15 April 1984, Sierra Leone
I spent my younger years running from conflict until I was captured and forced to fight. My youth ended just before my 8th birthday, my family taken away from by carnivorous vultures.
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‘The Enemy's Child’
[from the ‘Blood Simulacra’ drawings series]
2008
58cm x 48cm
Damar Resin, Pigment, African Blood, African Soil
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| About the Artist |
My work is not an attempt at healing, the things I have seen and done cannot be cured, or erased that easily. I am merely a billboard for a world brainwashed by greed. |
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Idols of the Cave (Detail)
2007 180 x 110cm |
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Abstract painting in black, red and silver with smashed, but working chandelier to the top, and at the base a requisitory with nest of human remains and eggshells. |
Idols of the Cave
2007 Oil, sand, bone, glass on canvas 110 x 180cm |
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Abstract painting in black, red and silver with smashed, but working chandelier to the top, and at the base a requisitory with nest of human remains and eggshells. |
I Ingozi have killed a white man
2006 Oil, Sand, Newsprint, Bone, Plastic figurine on Canvas 140 x 180cm |
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Abstract painting featuring found objects and printed pornographic imagery |
Dante Cantos 20 (The man who cried into his own arse)
2006 Oil, Sand, Newsprint on Canvas 140 x 180cm |
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Abstract painting featuring copy of Dante's death mask and human bone. |
Table setting for Midas (Detail)
2006 120 x 180cm |
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Collage of pornographic material attached by rope to a metalic gold field painting with bones and gold plated cuttlery attached to base. |
Table setting for Midas
2006 Oil, Metallic Paint, Newsprint, Cardboard, Bone on Canvas 120 x 180cm |
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Collage of pornographic material attached by rope to a metalic gold field painting with bones and gold plated cuttlery attached to base. |
I dried myself with criminal air
2007 Oil and Cobra on Canvas 140 x 180 cm |
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Text based painting inspired by the writings of Rimbaud featuring killed and stuffed cobra
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The Enemy's Child
2007 Found Resin, African Soil, Artists Blood 28cm x 50cm |
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Original drawing made with the artist's unique medium, consisting of found resins, pigment, African soil and artist's blood. It forms part of the artist's 'Blood Simulacra' drawings shown at the Royal Academy in Feb 2008. |
Riven
2008 Damar Resin, Pigment, African Blood, African Soil 58cm x 48cm |
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Part of my 'Blood Simulacra' drawings to be shown at the Royal Academy in Feb 2008 |
The Carnivorous Vulture III
2008 Found Resin, Varnish, Pigment, African Blood, African Soil 58cm x 48cm |
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Part of my 'Blood Simulacra' drawing series to be shown at the Royal Academy in Feb 2008. |
Bitter Presence
2007 Found Resin, African Soil, Artists Blood 28cm x 50cm |
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Original drawing made with the artist's unique medium, consisting of found resins, pigment, African soil and artist's blood. It forms part of the artist's 'Blood Simulacra' drawings shown at the Royal Academy in Feb 2008. |
Marabou Stood
2007 Found Resin, African Soil, Artists Blood 28 X 50CM |
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Original drawing made with the artist's unique medium, consisting of found resins, pigment, African soil and artist's blood. It forms part of the artist's 'Blood Simulacra' drawings shown at the Royal Academy in Feb 2008. |
Like a tree split by lightning
2008 Damar Resin, Pigment, African Blood, African Soil 58cm x 48cm |
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Part of my 'Blood Simulacra' drawing series to be shown at the Royal Academy in Feb 2008 |
My father still sings in my dreams
2008 Damar Resin, Pigment, African blood, African soil 58cm x 48cm |
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Part of my 'Blood Simulacra' drawing series to be shown at the Royal Academy in Feb 2008 |
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| Education and biography |
| I have drawn since I was a child, but have learned painting during the two years in London. My first works was shown in stolen spaces, but my first gallery show was at Meskalito gallery in East London in 2007, where I showed my ‘Idols of the Cave’ painting. I am excited to work in new forms and have worked with the curator Alfred camp on ‘Ein Grosser Schwartzer’. This has been a big challenge as I understand that art is more than objects, but how the objects work with each other to make more than is physically there. My last project ‘Cockaigne Culture’ at the Royal Academy in London which closed in February 2008 has resolved many material questions, and I have also felt confident to argue for my own understanding of concepts, and win through. |
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| Future shows |
| I am excited to be working on new sculptures with cursed objects and I will hope to be showing them this year in London. If you have object that you think to be cursed or give you back luck then you can send me images at 'kuleingozi@gmail.com'. I do not look at my email many times in winter, so please wait for reply patiently. |
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