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17 Contemporary & Modern SOGAL Art Auction

OLAYINKA “ATUNBI”
ODERINDE

Oláyinka ‘’Atunbi” Oderinde is a visual
artist living and working in Lagos, Nigeria.
He has found voice through the medium
of drawing and storytelling employing
variations on print, collagraph, enamels, My approach is a statement about values,
water base, plastic paints as well as dry a pure essence deep-rooted at the heart of
media. This allows him to explore ideas, life. The use of dots represents the variables
subject matter on repurposed papers of cosmic spirit, a symbiosis of the earth,
and alternative surfaces thus, making humanity and existence. The flow of line
his process metaphoric of an alchemist’s symbolize the impressions of reality just as
a sense, not the know ability; for every now
transformation of base metals into “gold”. and then the illusion is much closer to the
His art addresses issues on humanity, truth. So much of this body of work draws on
cultural misinformation and environmental abstraction to expose the propaganda with
consciousness; deep waters he navigates which we are constantly barraged – an attempt
through the lens of spirituality, purpose to shape or confuse public understanding,
a diversion from issues that concern all of
and identity. However, as an open observer humanity, obscuring the truth. This piece was
and partaker, he documents this inner conceived from the place of love and true
voyage in visual and most often, symbolic freedom – yours and mine. With such power
narratives; enamored with the quest to comes accountability, for each other, and for
the earth.
leaving a bold trace on the trajectory of
human existence, through time. Atunbi is
a graduate of Fine & Applied Arts from the LOT 24
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Literature for the Free, 2018
Ogbomoso, Oyo State Nigeria.
Soul Tweets, 2018
Everything Between, 2018
Mixed Media - (W43 x H58) 17 x 23 in.
Signed and Dated (Lower Right)
N450,000 - N500,000 (I,II,III)