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Bukola OrioyeVoyage of Savagery and Servitude -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa2024
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"Voyage of Savagery and Servitude" delves into the brutal history of racial exploitation and resilience. The figure, dignified in a blue cloak and crowned with a wide-brimmed hat, gazes forward with a determined expression. This central figure is set against a white background, symbolizing a cotton field—a stark reminder of forced labor and the exploitation endured by Black bodies in the Americas.
The words “Little Africa on Fire - Tulsa Race Riot - June 1st, 1921” evoke the horrors of the Tulsa massacre, where a prosperous Black community was destroyed by racial violence. In the background, the turbulent sea alludes to the transatlantic passage, underscoring the journey of enslaved Africans and the enduring impact of that history. The blue hues, contrasted with fiery tones on the horizon, capture the struggle between oppression and resilience, loss and hope. This work serves as a reminder of the resilience embedded within a painful legacy, and the indomitable spirit that perseveres across generations.
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Orioye Bukola, born in 1993 in Osogbo, Orioye is a native of Ekiti State. A graduate of Chemistry from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Trained by Mr. Tope Fatumbi of Topfat Art Gallery; Adamasingba, Ibadan 2019. He is inspired by societal issues and life demands, beauty, culture, and African Spirituality – with a focus more on the female gender as a conduit to all else. His philosophy is about simplicity and determination without harm none.
Orioye's mind quest has progressed to infused questionings and suppositions in his canvases beyond mere rhetorical aesthetics; (as the trendy atmosphere now seems mostly to suggest). His works speak in metaphors that flow between the past, the present, and the postulation of the future. He probes on relics to unearth anchored reasoning which shares semblances with contemporary happenings.
His stylistic sense is inventive of punkish style piles of hair reminiscent of the 80s and discotheques, parted with sharp oblique angles which are reflections of the hard chiselled surfaces of the Yoruba effigies he introduces into his works, seasoned with a strong sense of fashion.
Orioye is concerned with African spirituality and how it interfaces with the identity, memories, worship, and total well-being of the people. This adaptation of the past to interface with the present and postulate a futuristic nuance is evident in his warm leathered-clad supersonic subjects whose demeanour echoes the Star Trek, UFO, and intergalactic Adour of postmodern Hollywood cinematic periods.
This pendulum of interactions between the past, the present, and the futuristic postulations, defines Orioye’s works and lends them a certain direction. The combinations create inquisitiveness for explorations that permeate the borrowed eras, espousing bygone traits of exhumed investigative nuances, memories, identities, and spirituality of bygone cultural epochs. It will be exhilarating to calmly observe the growth of Orioye Bukola’s sojourn in the interpretations of his curious and investigative narratively placed overtures.
- Creator:Bukola Orioye (Nigerian)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Ibadan, NG
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1717215565822
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