Fruit market in Embakasi
Leonard Ngure
Painting - 87.5 x 97.5 x 2 cm Painting - 34.4 x 38.4 x 0.8 inch
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2016
Saad Lukwago
Painting : acrylic
139 x 109 x 2 cm 54.7 x 42.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,988
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Dimensions cm • inch
139 x 109 x 2 cm 54.7 x 42.9 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Black wood frame
Artwork dimensions including frame
143 x 113 x 3 cm 56.3 x 44.5 x 1.2 inch
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Artwork location: Germany
Lukwago’s Fek Fek art
When Saad Lukwago started teaching art in high school nearly a decade ago, his students expected him to exude the highest standards of artistic practice in his own works. The same way he instructed them to do and this standard, according to them, was art rendered in photographic precision. However, when some students chanced to see his abstract paintings that he planned to exhibit in a major gallery in Kampala, they felt exceedingly letdown by his “pseudo professionalism“ to the extent that hey labeled his productions as “fake fake art“. Rather amused by the interpretation of his work by his ’naive’ students, Lukwago wasted no time in seeing this new designation as an opportunity and consequently baptised his work, albeit with a tweak, as “Fek Fek Art“ for the succeeding period. He held public shows under the label and also established what came to be a popular Facebook page using the same signature.
Lukwago is not alone in this enterprise. Over a century and a half ago, some of French art history’s most recognisable brands such as Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, et al. did a group exhibition in Paris where on of Monet’s paintings was titled “Impression, Soleil Levant“ (Impression, Sunrise). An art critic reported in the press about the show, disparagingly referring to it as the show of "the so-called Impressionists“, in reference to Monet’s work, the de facto leader of the group. Rather than feel offended by the negative remark, they conversely adopted the inference and dubbed there show the “Exhibition of the Impressionists“, which history writers later permanently called the beginning of the Impressionist movement.
Although Lukwago quit teaching last year to pursue a full time career in art, his art still belches a nostalgic hangover of his recent past. He trained in art education at Kyambago University where he started engaging in group exhibitions at Nemmo gallery as early as his first year. Even when he dabbled in music as a studio hand, DJ, and music scheduler, he continued to be fascinated by animation art.
Today, Lukwago’s art is a reflection of a combination of musical rhythm and strong comic cartoon impressions. Using mainly acrylics because of their fast-drying advantage, Lukwago has established his artistic character of painting in bold outlines and sharp colours in creating his ludicrously overstated caricatures of human figures. One of the paintings titled “The Caucus“ (he admitted that the original titled was “the cock ass“) is about a family meeting of cocks (road politicians) ostensibly engaged in one of their characteristic stratagems, probably with intend to achieve their self-aggrandisement. Lukwago is quite cagey about the details of this work for fear of possible backlash from the all-owerful caucus should they find out that he is out to frustrate their ploy with his nonsensical obscurantist visual rants.
Other works assume the trait of aliens as we know them in science fiction movies. He presents the tall slender figurines staring suspiciously with their extra-large unblinking eyes settling with unease on small heads pinned on towering necks. These too he generously endows with colour, patterns, and contrasts that give the impression of a textile design. With this mastery, it would be interesting to find out if his former students would think again whether his art has actually gained currence or it remains the same old fek fek art.
Nathan Kiwere in the Independent, Sept 09, 2016
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When Saad Lukwago started teaching art in high school nearly a decade ago, his students expected him to exude the highest standards of artistic practice in his own works. The same way he instructed them to do and this standard, according to them, was art rendered in photographic precision. However, when some students chanced to see his abstract paintings that he planned to exhibit in a major gallery in Kampala, they felt exceedingly letdown by his “pseudo professionalism“ to the extent that hey labeled his productions as “fake fake art“. Rather amused by the interpretation of his work by his ’naive’ students, Lukwago wasted no time in seeing this new designation as an opportunity and consequently baptised his work, albeit with a tweak, as “Fek Fek Art“ for the succeeding period. He held public shows under the label and also established what came to be a popular Facebook page using the same signature.
Lukwago is not alone in this enterprise. Over a century and a half ago, some of French art history’s most recognisable brands such as Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, et al. did a group exhibition in Paris where on of Monet’s paintings was titled “Impression, Soleil Levant“ (Impression, Sunrise). An art critic reported in the press about the show, disparagingly referring to it as the show of "the so-called Impressionists“, in reference to Monet’s work, the de facto leader of the group. Rather than feel offended by the negative remark, they conversely adopted the inference and dubbed there show the “Exhibition of the Impressionists“, which history writers later permanently called the beginning of the Impressionist movement.
Although Lukwago quit teaching last year to pursue a full time career in art, his art still belches a nostalgic hangover of his recent past. He trained in art education at Kyambago University where he started engaging in group exhibitions at Nemmo gallery as early as his first year. Even when he dabbled in music as a studio hand, DJ, and music scheduler, he continued to be fascinated by animation art.
Today, Lukwago’s art is a reflection of a combination of musical rhythm and strong comic cartoon impressions. Using mainly acrylics because of their fast-drying advantage, Lukwago has established his artistic character of painting in bold outlines and sharp colours in creating his ludicrously overstated caricatures of human figures. One of the paintings titled “The Caucus“ (he admitted that the original titled was “the cock ass“) is about a family meeting of cocks (road politicians) ostensibly engaged in one of their characteristic stratagems, probably with intend to achieve their self-aggrandisement. Lukwago is quite cagey about the details of this work for fear of possible backlash from the all-owerful caucus should they find out that he is out to frustrate their ploy with his nonsensical obscurantist visual rants.
Other works assume the trait of aliens as we know them in science fiction movies. He presents the tall slender figurines staring suspiciously with their extra-large unblinking eyes settling with unease on small heads pinned on towering necks. These too he generously endows with colour, patterns, and contrasts that give the impression of a textile design. With this mastery, it would be interesting to find out if his former students would think again whether his art has actually gained currence or it remains the same old fek fek art.
Nathan Kiwere in the Independent, Sept 09, 2016
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Saad Lukwago was born in 1981 in Kampala (Uganda) and studied art and design at Kyambogo University. He graduated in 2004. Since art has been a part of his life since childhood, he began to practice it professionally when he began his studies.
He likes to work with acrylic paint as it dries quickly and allows him to work quickly. Nevertheless he likes to use all kinds of other materials. So he also works with pastel and watercolours and even creates collages with everyday materials like cutouts from magazines or used textiles.
He loves to fuse art forms to create extraordinary things that many people can identify with. Around 2010 his artistic collaboration with Jude Kassaga began and they founded FEK FEK ART. FEK FEK ART is an independent style, which uses different artistic genres like graffiti, cartoon and printmaking.
Saad is very interested in faces. He paints them in his own way, plays with them and distorts them to make them look different. A recurring element in his paintings is the eye, it serves him as an instrument of individualization.
For the artist, the creation of a painting feels like an adventure that develops during the process, with colour being an important element of his experimental style.
In addition to teaching art and working on his own works, Saad has also worked as a music manager and presenter on radio shows in the past. Occasionally he tries to combine his various interests, for example with a TV show about art.
He works together with Jude Kasagga in the Halifax studio in Kampala (Uganda).
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