Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Ola ilu (Societal wealth), 2024
Painting : oil, acrylic · 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm 48 x 36 x 1 inch
5,000 - € 10,000
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Shipped from: Nigeria
Delivery to: France , € 335
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Type
Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist
Invoice from the gallery
Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm 48 x 36 x 1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
A powerful presence dominates the canvas. The subject stands with a quiet, grounded dignity. Her gaze is steady and knowing. She wears a vibrant pink headwrap that crowns her silhouette. A white garment provides a luminous contrast against the dark, moody background.
The composition centers on a complex ritual object. This artifact blends organic textures with sculpted forms. Tiny shells create a dense, tactile surface. At the top, blue-tipped figures emerge like guardians of ancestral memory. The artist bridges the gap between Yoruba spirituality and contemporary expression.
Every fold of the striped fabric suggests a deep connection to cultural identity. The skin is rendered with a leathered, realistic quality. It speaks of time, experience, and resilience. This artwork explores the female figure as a conduit for spiritual wisdom. It is a dialogue between the relics of the past and the energy of the present. The narrative unfolds through meticulous detail and a sophisticated palette. The piece concludes with a focus on the intricate layering of beads and carved wood.
Presentation
Orioye Bukola, born in 1993 in Osogbo, Orioye is a native of Ekiti State—a graduate of Chemistry from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Trained by Mr. Tope Fatumbi of Topfat Art Gallery; Adamasingba, Ibadan 2019. He is inspired by societal issues and life demands, beauty, culture, and African Spirituality – focusing more on the female gender as a conduit to all else. His philosophy is about simplicity and determination without harm none.
Orioye's mind quest has progressed to infused questionings and suppositions in his canvases beyond mere rhetorical aesthetics; (as the trendy atmosphere now seems mostly to suggest). His works speak in metaphors that flow between the past, the present, and the postulation of the future. He probes into relics to unearth anchored reasoning that shares semblances with contemporary happenings.
His stylistic sense is inventive of punkish style piles of hair reminiscent of the 80s and discotheques, parted with sharp oblique angles which are reflections of the hard chiseled surfaces of the Yoruba effigies he introduces into his works, seasoned with a strong sense of fashion.
Orioye is concerned with African spirituality and how it interfaces with the people's identity, memories, worship, and total well-being. This adaptation of the past to interface with the present and postulate a futuristic nuance is evident in his warm leathered-clad supersonic subjects whose demeanor echoes the Star Trek, UFO, and intergalactic Adour of postmodern Hollywood cinematic periods.
This pendulum of interactions between the past, the present, and the futuristic postulations, defines Orioye's works and lends them a certain direction. The combinations create inquisitiveness for explorations that permeate the borrowed eras, espousing bygone traits of exhumed investigative nuances, memories, identities, and spirituality of bygone cultural epochs. It will be exhilarating to calmly observe the growth of Orioye Bukola's sojourn in the interpretations of his curious and investigative narratively placed overtures.
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