Olivers Okolo's - Orange isn´t Blue

Sitges Anytime, March 14, 2023

Born in an agricultural area of Central Nigeria in 1992, Oliver Okolo had two dreams as a child: one of becoming a basketball star and the other of becoming an artist. He combined his two dreams into a series of handmade comics of himself as a basketball star. Drawn to the works of classical artists—especially the Old Masters, he was accepted as an apprentice to Clement Nwafor, an Abuja-based Nigerian artist who beautifully mixes fabric collage and portraiture in his realist paintings...

 

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