UCHE OKEKE

1933, Nimo, Nigeria
2016, Nimo, Nigeria

Uche Okeke is considered one of the fathers of modernism in Nigeria for having identified in the synthesis of linear design not only a personal formal language but also an expressive identity vocabulary for the country at the dawn of independence. He renders essential representations of landscapes, human beings and ancestral symbols in which the aspiration to modernity of post-colonial Africa and the indigenous Igbo aesthetic traditions coexist.

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