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   AMIAF 2023, Participating Artist Oladele Ogbeyemi   Oladele Ogbeyemi sometimes surreal masterpieces are in the private collections of a Belgium Ambassador and the King of Morocco. In 2011, he won the Ben Enwonwu Foundation (BEF) award in Sculpture. He is a full-time experimental visual artist and a member of the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA). A mentee of master metal sculptor Fidelis Odogwu and trainee at Universal Studios of Art, Oladele Ogbeyemi has further established himself as a celebrated recycle spokesman through his revolutionary found-metal sculptures. He uses retired household tools and scrap metals to achieve his rhetorical methodology surrounding the social, cultural, political, and economic attitude of Africans towards the reuse of waste and its proper management. His expertise as a draughtsman and painter has greatly empowered his passion as a disciple of recycling to produce abnormal collectibles. Hence, his selection as one of the AMIAFSLOT2023 visu...

  AMIAF 2023 Participating Artist- Adeniyi Adewole Adeniyi Adewole was a participant in the 8th edition of Rele (Gallery's) Arts Foundation Young Contemporaries 2023. At a quick glance, his works strike the viewer as absurd. However, with deep scrutinizing, the paradoxical valuables become comprehensible and more astounding. Tapping into the wisdom of Africa's past and the wokeness of today's contemporary lifestyle of Africans, he sculpts fabulous dramatic narratives. He is one of few visual artists who have mastered the art of dimensional storytelling. Adeniyi's pieces are wild evidence of a disruptive artist intentional disregard for restraints to what is expected or familiar. At the same time, his artistic musings are exceptionally remarkable considering the exotic characteristics his works possess. Objectively new, his works are different from what we are used to. Hence, his selection as one of the 12 beneficiaries of Artmiabo International Art Festival's AMIAF...

  AMIAF Participating Artist Sotonye Jumbo is a new-fashioned visual artist from River State, Nigeria. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in Bruce Onobrakpeya's Harmattan Workshop. Sotonye further interned in 2020 at the Bruce Onobrakpeya (art) Foundation. In 2018, he was selected alongside Anthonia Nneji and Omofemi Oluwole et al as part of the pioneering TOP TEN finalists of the Next of Kin art competition and exhibition by Thought Pyramid Art Centre. Sotonye Jumbo's representative pieces are multicultural. Predominantly, each of his characters on canvas is a balanced embellishment of the ensuing cohabitation possibility between individuals and extraterrestrials. The sophisticated half-jovian part person subjects are mostly styled in human clothing, sometimes executing household tasks or just gazing at the onlooker in a cool, funky pose. A transcendence of consciousness is required to grasp the celestial subjects in his intensely good works that are divergence from mainstrea...

  Artmiabo International Art Festival, 2023 Curatorial Announcement Congratulations Artmiabo International Art Festival, is delighted to announce Yusuf Durodola as the Curator of the Festival for the next 3 years, 2023-2025 Starting with next year's 2023 festival, themed 'Art of Afrobeats' meaning Fine Artists who's works have a feeling of Afrobeats. Yusuf will be bringing in a youthful fresh multi diverse art energy into the festival. He will have full creative licence and support from Artmiabo. As curator he would oversee the artists participation, graphic design, exhibition layout and all that is necessary to create an international art exhibition experience. We at Artmiabo welcome Yusuf to the team Congrats once again! For info on the festival check out https://www.artmiabo.com/.../artmiabo-international-art... Below are some of the reasons we are thrilled YUSUF DURODOLA Yusuf Durodola is a Guinness World Record Achiever (Largest Painting by Number) for Ecole ...