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Bukola Orioye
Jewel and Chain I
2023

$4,500

£3,368.01

€3,899.94

CA$6,254.27

A$7,044.42

CHF 3,648.05

MX$85,551.63

NOK 46,338.67

SEK 43,956.14

DKK 29,098.95

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Hello, chained beauty! Let’s revisit the echoes of our past. And dent ourselves in the history untold. Golden chains, silver strands, and a black hat, History of our captivity worn with pride. Adorning ourselves in shackles of chains O blessed trinket of slaves! Our new, gracefully obsessed gaze The arrow dug deep into the flesh. While the scream of pain echoes through the air. Our tune of pain is sweet music to their ears. Once a tool of oppression, an object of shame to our ancestors’ grief, Now full regalia of finery, a fashion that masks our misery, In our freedom, we recreate our beauty, once painted in black dirt with a touch of blood stain. Now adorned in pure gold with a touch of pearls. The hat twirls with elegance and class. Yet, echoes our oppression in clear glass. No doubt! Our makeup is like war paint, and our lips are finely carved like curses. The beauty we carved was a barricade to what we heard. Our beauty and fierceness: an everlasting mystery Yet, defying all odds, and taking us to where we don’t know. Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist 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 chiseled 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 they interface 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 demeanor 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 lent 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:

2023

Dimensions:

Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil,Acrylic

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Ibadan, NG

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1717212296422

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