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Paradise lost: Michael Armitage's layered depictions of Africa


Posted 20 May 2021, by
Imelda Barnard
This painting seems to depict a tropical idyll, made up of lush foliage and blue skies. Yet a closer look reveals a more violent scene overlaid on top of the verdant green background: disembodied feet are suspended in the sky and hands pull forcefully at ankles. The serpentine coils rising up one of the ghostly figures echo the writhing tree branches nearby and suggest this is very much a fallen Eden.
The Paradise Edict
2019, oil on lubugo bark cloth by Michael Armitage (b.1984)
Paradise Edict is one of 15 oil paintings by Armitage on show at the RA in an exhibition that challenges cultural assumptions of Africa. The exhibition travels from the Haus der Kunst in Munich and, like that display, this one presents his paintings alongside works by other East African artists. ....

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