Uzo Egonu transferred the nostalgia for the past and the bloody developments of post-independence Nigeria into the visions and testimonies of a foreigner in London in work that includes oil paintings, illustrations and etchings printed on paper and fabric, distinguishing himself as an outsider in the art scene for his personal language – a mix of abstraction, figuration and representation – developed through a rigorous academic education and an unprecedented fusion of European modernism with the pictorial and sculptural traditions of his Igbo origins.
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