"Using the adage; ‘teach me and I will forget, show me and I will learn’, Brian Omollo, Barbara Muriungi, David Maina, Musa Omusi and Jeff Muthondu, picked various topics to impart visual knowledge on moral and environmental degradation."
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"...[Entitled and themed ‘‘Nairobi Re-Viewed,’’ Mrs Collymore called upon five artists to feature in the show, inviting them to either create new artworks with that theme in mind or bring works of theirs that already reflected distinctive ways of seeing our capital city.]..."
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Exceptional art dealers must be intelligent, knowledgeable, intuitive, educated, and business oriented – and that’s just scratching the surface. Art dealer, gallery owner, and curator Wambui Kamiru-Collymore of The Art Space fits the role on all accounts.
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"In subtle combinations of intricate black lines, shades of grey and coffee smudges, the auto-portraits of the artist explore various mental states and plunge the viewer in an imaginary vortex of emotions."
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Re-viewed — the hyphen makes the point — is an exhibition in which six artists were invited to look anew at Nairobi, the city they call home; at its icons and at its people, but avoiding the cliché skyline with its saucer atop the Kenyatta International Convention Centre tower.
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A Group Exhibition
21st May to 1st June 2016
Nairobi Re-viewed: A Group Show featuring work by Osborne Macharia, Anne Mwiti, Dennis Muraguri, Phillip Kere, Aron Boruya and Gakunju Kaigwa.
“Everyone gains agency when their true story gets into the public domain. Gain agency for yourself by
With its questioning of the nature of art layered over its concern for the East African landscape, this is an exhibition that is intelligent, provocative, and one that offers riches on many levels Continue reading on theeastafrican.co.ke
Blurred Lines is the long-awaited exhibition by two of Kenya’s most acclaimed contemporary artists whose art has gone all over the world, yet in recent times both have been fairly quiet, working behind the scenes and staying out of the limelight.
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I’m standing in one of the upstairs rooms of The Art Space gallery when this thought occurs to me. It’s the opening night of David Thuku’s and Michael Musyoka’s exhibition “This for That”. I’ve never met either of the artists before, so it completely blows my mind when I’m hit by a deeply intense
This is a show about decisions and the lack of them. Called This for That it explores reasons why people make bad choices. Continue reading on The East African