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THE POETICS OF COLOR

Color is never neutral or a cultural bystander.

It has shaped how all societies understand power, emotion, value, and identity.

Language reveals color as a cast of characters, we encounter black, white, red, green, blue and gold as markets, lies, alerts, lights, moods, and opportunities respectively.

These characters are not just metaphors, they are cultural structures of grammar and epistemology.

The Poetics of Color explores colors, as living archives of meaning. It reveals how color operates as both language and system.

It invites us to consider that color does not decorate the world, it constructs it!!

#contemporaryart #africanart #contemporaryafricanart #poeticsofcolour #artconsultant by @ade.adekola

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3 months ago

THE POETICS OF COLOR

Color is never neutral or a cultural bystander.

It has shaped how all societies understand power, emotion, value, and identity.

Language reveals color as a cast of characters, we encounter black, white, red, green, blue and gold as markets, lies, alerts, lights, moods, and opportunities respectively.

These characters are not just metaphors, they are cultural structures of grammar and epistemology.

The Poetics of Color explores colors, as living archives of meaning. It reveals how color operates as both language and system.

It invites us to consider that color does not decorate the world, it constructs it!!

#contemporaryart #africanart #contemporaryafricanart #poeticsofcolour #artconsultant by @ade.adekola

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4 months ago

THE POETICS OF COLOR

Color is never neutral or a cultural bystander.

It has shaped how all societies understand power, emotion, value, and identity.

Language reveals color as a cast of characters, we encounter black, white, red, green, blue and gold as markets, lies, alerts, lights, moods, and opportunities respectively.

These characters are not just metaphors, they are cultural structures of grammar and epistemology.

The Poetics of Color explores colors, as living archives of meaning. It reveals how color operates as both language and system.

It invites us to consider that color does not decorate the world, it construct it!!

#contemporaryart #africanart #contemporaryafricanart #poeticsofcolor #artconsultant by @ade.adekola

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5 months ago

THE POETICS OF COLOR

Color is never neutral or a cultural bystander.

It has shaped how all societies understand power, emotion, value, and identity.

Language reveals color as a cast of characters, we encounter black, white, red, green, blue and gold as markets, lies, alerts, lights, moods, and opportunities respectively.

These characters are not just metaphors, they are cultural structures of grammar and epistemology.

The Poetics of Color explores colors, as living archives of meaning. It reveals how color operates as both language and system.

It invites us to consider that color does not decorate the world, it constructs it!!

#contemporaryart #africanart #contemporaryafricanart #poeticsofcolor #artconsultant by @ade.adekola

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7 months ago

POETICS OF COLOUR..
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#poeticsofcolour #contemporaryart #elementhouse #africanart #contemporaryafricanart by @ade.adekola

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8 months ago

SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS -2025

Every once in a while I come across magic warped in a human spirit. Artist, Richardson Ovbiebo @richardsonovbiebo is magic.

I've collected his artworks and sculpture for a decade and a half. In that time I have seen him grow, and blossom, in both his artistic offering and epistemological standing. I'll share more of his work in another post.

He and I had planned an iridescent light sculpture that displays lustrous, rainbow-like colors five years ago. The scale of the sculpture would have been 🔥. The materials costs were 🔥🔥 too, way beyond our budget then.

On my birthday a few days ago, Richardson displayed his magic again by installing SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS in my home.

Please enjoy 🙏🏿

#showersofblessings #africanart #sculpture #contemporaryafricanart #lightsculpture #richardsonovbiebo by @ade.adekola

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10 months ago

Hi Friends, you are invited to the opening reception of our upcoming exhibition, SUPERIMPOSED: PRINT, MEMORY & MATERIAL ✨

SUPERIMPOSED explores what happens when memory, material, and imagination overlap.

This show brings together five incredible contemporary artists experimenting with mediums and materials within print and edition-making. These artists are translating symbols, layering moments, and reshaping the familiar into something newly alive.

Think of it as a quiet expansion, where fragments become form, and meaning gets renewed, not preserved.

Featuring works by
Ade Adekola
Chukwumeka Anthony
Josh Ike Egesi
Orry Shenjobi
Nkem Okwechime

Opening Reception:
Saturday, Nov. 29
3PM–8PM

On view:
Nov. 29 - Dec. 16, 2025

Closed on Mondays

MÌLÍKÍ, 7B Etim Inyang Crescent., Victoria Island, Lagos

Curated by Ima Ekpo and presented by Fresco Gallery.

RSVP: Link in bio by @ade.adekola

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a year ago

Every once in a while i stumble across an artist whose work i am compelled to embrace.

These incredible pieces by Ghanaian artist Fred Oke Mate joined the studio collection in 2008.

They demand attention, commanding you to LOOK and then they reward you by leaving you in a state of enhanced gratitude (for your time, for looking, for their custody and more).

Collecting in multiples provides deeper access to the artists voice and journey.

Each piece have a certain, you know, "visual audacity".

Collectively they stand symbolic of the ebony forest, claimed by the River Volta, and from which their fish-bitten barks originate.

These marks narrate tales of the subaquatic sculptural exploits, charging each piece with a historical and natural provenance.

Please enjoy, chapeaux @fredokomate #africanart #sculpture #volta #ebony #fredokomate by @ade.adekola

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a year ago

CODE-SWITCH curated by @_the1897 for @vvslagos
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Fun to be out and about... Congrats to @sosamimosa @rv_windsor @ifeanyinwune and the crew at @n.a.h.o.u.s ... Sending love and light 🙏🏿
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#codeswitch #the1987 #contemporaryphotography #vvslagos #nahous #adeadekola by @ade.adekola

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a year ago

📷️ Through the lens - Ade Adekola: Fine Art Photography Boxset⁠
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@ade.adekola⁠
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Ade Adekola is Nigerian-born contemporary artist exploring questions about shifting culture, migration, and globalisation.⁠
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His work dives deep into cultural preservation, transformation, colour and innovation in Africa. For Ade, art is a tool to shift perception and spark changing the minds of his viewers. ⁠
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In a society yawning for change his images are timely in elevating African Contemporary photography.⁠
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Trained as an architect in London, he’s been exhibiting since the early ’90s and has documented the vibrant life of Lagos since 2005. His photography stands at the forefront of African contemporary art — bold, thought-provoking, and deeply timely.⁠
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📸Throughout July, we're revisiting our exceptional collection of fine art photography boxsets. ⁠
🔗 Shop the boxsets via our link in bio ⁠
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Profits from all sales go towards The Hepatitis C Trust's work tackling health inequality for underserved communities affected by Hepatitis C and related conditions. @hepatitisctrust⁠ by @ade.adekola

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a year ago

Tribute Roy Ayers: Freaky Deaky!
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#jazzfunk #raregroove #blackmusic #vinylcollection #アフロビート #アフロファンク #ファンク #ジャズファンク #レアグルーヴ #ブラックミュージック #フェラクティ #ロイエアーズ #ヴァイナル #felakuti #royayers #afrobeat #afrofunk #funkvinyl #coloredvinyl #digitalart #typography #typographicposter #posterart #typeposter #tdkpeepshow #thegoodtype #creativeboom #itsnicethatgallery #typosters #freakydeaky by @ade.adekola

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2 years ago

Tribute Roy Ayers: We live in Brooklyn baby!
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#jazzfunk #raregroove #blackmusic #vinylcollection #アフロビート #アフロファンク #ファンク #ジャズファンク #レアグルーヴ #ブラックミュージック #フェラクティ #ロイエアーズ #ヴァイナル #felakuti #royayers #afrobeat #afrofunk #funkvinyl #coloredvinyl #digitalart #typography #typographicposter #posterart #typeposter #tdkpeepshow #thegoodtype #creativeboom #itsnicethatgallery #typosters #weliveinbrooklynbaby by @ade.adekola

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2 years ago