Richard Onyango (Kenyan, Born 1960) Kangalika On Broken Road In 1969
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2007-01-01 | Acquired directly from the artist in 2007
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- Richard Onyango is one of Africa's most important artists
- Made famous by Andre Magnin and Jean Pigozzi in the 1980's he had worked as a drummer in a band and later as a bus conductor before becoming a full time painter
- Fascinated by buses and vehicles including trains from a young age, Onyango, with his near perfect powers of visual recall, recreated buses and other vehicles that he had seen as a boy
- This painting is one of the finest example from this long-running series and one of the artist's favourite paintings
- Onyango has long been fascinated by the concept of development
- Excited by the vision of his country and continent harnessing and embracing technology to increase prosperity for its citizens
- Central to this is a reverence for the machine and its maintenance
- The bus named Kangalika once glimpsed by the nine year old Onyango is not a sentimental painting, it is a kind of hymn to the bus driver and his machine's struggle against the wilderness and a commentary on the price of infrastructural neglect
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