Dates: Until February 28, 2021
Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery
Dates: Until February 28, 2021
Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery
We welcome you to a ‘A Journey through the Gallery’ with artists: Justus Kyalo, Paul Onditi, Gor Soudan, Eltayeb Dawalbeit, William Wambugu & others.
This exhibition continues until 28 August 2016.
Exhibiting Artists: William Wambugu, Evanson Kang’ethe and Ray Piwi
Exhibition Until: October 25, 2014
Open by appointment only – Tel: 0735884166
Curated by Samantha Ripa di Meana – sam@r8ts.eu – tel: 0735884166
About
William, Evanson and Ray are 3 artists using very different media. They represent the wide diversity of the upcoming Kenyan scene.
William is a conceptual artist who works with ink on paper. He’s presenting the installation of old scrap books “Hamsini-Fifty” shown at the Goethe Institute last year. As usual his work is the reflection of an evolving society who he analyses and categorizes like an anthropologist.
Ray is a new young photographer who creates images of a great depth. In this series of works, he depicts Kenyan and South African women with the weight of the world that surrounds them. Although he is new on the Kenyan art scene, he has already won several prizes-World Bank, Nikon- and a scholarship in South Africa. Thanks to his perseverance he has managed to transform his hard working childhood into a successful story.
Evanson on the other hand is an artist of the “Old generation” who has managed to evolve and diversify. The works chosen for this exhibition are drawings of everyday life in Nairobi with a trivial sense of humor.All 3 have in common their passion for work and have chosen art as a way of life. They have a humble approach that gives them strengths, power and independence.
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Exhibition organized by ROOTS CONTEMPORARY Brussels
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Exhibition Opening: September 19, 2013, 7 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Exhibition Dates: Until October 18, 2013
About
The exhibition series Sasa Nairobi is the basis of our work in the field of contemporary art. Since 2008, Goethe Institut Nairobi has exhibited more than 30 artists, the last being a performance by Jackie the 3rd.
They continue this series with William Wambugu, a young emerging artist who uses drawing and sketch as medium. William was trained at an art and design school and attended workshops where he forged his strong individual style. In his work he explores his personal world and perceptions and deducts out of each detail a universal comprehension of the world he is living in.
According to the exhibition’s curator Samantha Ripa di Meana, William is a meticulous observer who is inspired by people and circumstances, but more precisely by objects that surround him. She describes his images as delicate and simple which at the same time have strength and great creativity.
For the first time in his career, William is creating an installation merging all the works he has produced up to now. This exhibition presents for the first time a variety of his self-made scrap books. William uses all kinds of print products that he gets hold of on which he attaches newspaper articles, adverts, drawings and paintings that add a new meaning to the original book.
Presented in the way the street book vendors trade their goods, “William gives to the audience his personal view and perception like a kaleidoscope of humankind” says Samantha.
