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Professor Oseloka Osadebe, one of the founding members of the Zaria Rebels, a group of Nigerian art students at then Nigerian College of Arts, Science and
However, the biennale’s recognition of the Nigerian “artist-designer,” an honor typically reserved for better-known architects and architectural theorists like Lina Bo Bardi, Kenneth Frampton, and Paulo Mendes da Rocha, brings Nwoko’s ideas and design approach to the fore, as well as those of the Zaria Art Society movement he was a part of as a student. Nwoko’s work, which spans from painting, carving, and sculpture, to theater set designs and architecture, is characterized by experimental tropical builds and a veneration of traditional West African craft, and stands as a prime twent...
Nigerian-born artist, designer, and architect Demas Nwoko is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 2023 Venice Biennale.
Arguments over restitution have obscured the fact that work from the continent’s past has had a global influence
Born in Egbe, Kogi State, on September 20, 1935, Jimo Akolo is synonymous with the ‘Zaria Rebels’, but he is one rebel, who is reluctant.