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RARE - KELANI ABASS NIGERIA "SCRAP OF EVIDENCE" PAINTING SCULPTURE MOMA SOTHEBYS
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FREE via Standard shipping (1 to 5 business days) to United States
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None: All purchases final
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Item traits
Category: | |
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Quantity Available: |
Only one in stock, order soon |
Condition: |
Used |
Subject: |
Africa |
Size: |
Medium (up to 36in.) |
Seller Notes: |
“Excellent” |
Artist: |
Kelani Abass |
Signed By: |
Kelani Abass |
Signed: |
Yes |
Title: |
Scrap of Evidence: Cifurian |
Period: |
Contemporary (1970 - 2020) |
Material: | |
Item Length: |
14 in |
Year of Production: |
2018 |
Original/Licensed Reproduction: |
Original |
Item Height: |
14 in |
Style: |
Assemblage, Contemporary Art, Figurative Art |
Country/Region of Manufacture: |
Nigeria |
Item Width: |
3 in |
Handmade: |
Yes |
Time Period Produced: |
2010-2019 |
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More than a week ago |
Item number: |
1598418229 |
Item description
This is for a very rare contemporary piece by modern artist Kelani Abass of Lagos, Nigeria. This is from his iconic 'Scrap of Evidence' series titled 'Scrap of Evidence: Cifurian' signed, titled and dated 2018 on the reverse. The appearance of visible age to the art and the frame is inherent to the work. This in excellent original condition.
In 2009 Kelani Abass discovered a unique family record that would forever change the course of his artistic practice. It sparked the idea for "Scrap of Evidence" –a powerful mixed media series that combines archival photographs, paintings, and metallic letters and symbols sourced from his father’s old printing press.
For his three-dimensional works the artist uses old portrait photographs, often reproduced as small paintings, which he retrieves from the archives inherited from his father's publishing business. Metal typefaces and other elements from the world of printing are added to these compositions. The relationship to memory and the importance of the archive assumes another dimension in his graphic work, where he recreates some of the images by repeated imprints applied with an ink pad.
Among many other accolades, the works by Kelani Abass have been shown in The Museum of Modern Art(MOMA) and auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's. This guy has been in it for a long time now, no overnight fads or hype. *Artist's history below.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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SOLO SHOWS
2022
Oxford University, Oxford – UK
Unfolding Layers of Time, ArtX Curated Projects, Lagos - NG
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2020
1-54 Christie’s, 31 PROJECT, Paris - FR
Iranti, 31 PROJECT, Paris – FR
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GROUP SHOWS
2023
A World in Common : Contemporary African Photography, TATE modern, London, UK
New Photography 2023, MoMA, New York City - USA
Are We Free to Move About the World: The Passport in Contemporary Art, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee - USA
Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, Gropius Bau, Berlin - DE
Art Genève, 31 PROJECT, Genève - CH
Effet de Groupe, 31 PROJECT, Paris - FR
Cape Town Art Fair, 31 PROJECT, Cape Town - SA
2022
Um Defeito de Cor, MAR Museum, Rio - BR
Untitled, 31 PROJECT, Miami - USA
Fragments, 31 PROJECT x Galerie Antoine Dupin, Cancale - FR
KIAF, 31 PROJECT, Seoul - KR
[Re:] Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge - UK
Cinquième Biennale Internationale de Casablanca – MA
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2021
Artissima, 31 PROJECT, Turin – IT
1-54, 31 PROJECT, Londres – UK
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2020
Art Paris Art Fair, 31 PROJECT, Paris - FR
SMALL, 31 PROJECT, Paris – FR
Three Borders, Palais de Lome – TGO
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2019
No Room for Fear, SMO Contemporary art, Londres – UK
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2017
Ori Meta, Odun Meta, Ibikan, ISCP, New York – USA
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2014
Painting the Cliché, Hohensalzburg Fortress – AU
Art for Peace, African Union, Addis Ababa – ETH
Art for Peace, Damla Art House, Istanbul – TR
Art for Peace, Waldorf Astoria, New York – USA
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2010
City of a ThoÉtats-Unisnd Masks, Caterina de Medici/3rd Black Heritage
Exhibition, Nike Art Gallery, Lagos – NG
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2005
Within Our Grasp, National Museum, Lagos – NG
AWARDS
Candidats du prix James Barnor pour la photographie, juillet 2022
WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES
2022
The Room Projects, Bernède – FR
?2020
Malt Air, Maltfabrikken, Ebetoft – DK
2018
Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco – USA
2014
Salzbourg Int. Summer Academy, Painting the cliché – AU
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