Madame Trottoir
Provenance : [Timeline chronologique]
2013-01-01 | Acquired from the Jack Bell Gallery, London in 2013
[Propriété non datée]
- Saatchi Collection
- London, Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America, 2014
- London, Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America, 2015
- Literature
- Saatchi Gallery, Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America, 2014, p.137
- Boris Nzebo started his artistic career painting signs for barbershops in Cameroon's largest city and economic capital Douala
- This experience acted as a catalyst for Nzebo's growing fascination with the representation of different hairstyles
- A medium of creativity and perfectionism used to convey identity, social status and ones political stance
- For example, in the present lot the subjects hair dominates the canvas
- Nzebo has carefully and meticulously illustrated different styles, such as the corn row braids at the scalp, the delicate strand falling on the subjects face and the tumbling ponytail
- The plaited heads of his subjects are reminiscent of the late Nigerian photographer J
- D. 'Okhai Ojeikere' who focused on the beauty of hair braiding
- The vivid layers and fine lines are also undeniably influences by the works of Patrick Caulfield, who simplified scenes with graphic, block colour
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