Bruce Onobrakpeya on El Anatsui and the Annual Harmattan Workshop Experience

“El Anatsui’s works have not only impacted on several upcoming artists, but his work continues to impact on, even his peers. It is this kind of relevance and creativity that institutionally the Harmattan workshop Series strives to rekindle and replicate in the contemporary art of Africa.”

Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya in 2009, speaking during the presentation of the Prince Claus Fund Award to the Nigerian/Ghanaian artist El Anatsui at the Dutch Embassy in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria on the 18th of Dec 2009. The award was accompanied by a modest purse of 25,000 euros. This award is widely considered a befitting tribute to the artist whose work, while in Nigeria in the last 35 years has influenced a lot of younger artists.

Nigerian Artistry by Pat Oyelola

Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation and Mosuro Publishers

Invite you to the presentation of Pat Oyelola's

NIGERIAN Artistry

Date : 27th March 2010

Time: 3.30p.m.

Venue: Harmattan workshop Gallery

10 Elsie Femi Pearse street

Off Kofo Abayomi, V.I.

Lagos

Chairman

Omo-Oba A.O. Odimayo

Presenter

Chief Odunayo Olagundoye

Reviewer

Dr. Kunle Filani

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Mudiare Onobrakpeya
0805 654 4281

Ibiebe Alphabets and Ideograms

DETAILS
ISBN: 978-2509-49-3
Binding: Hard Cover
First published: 2006
Price:$10.00
Publisher: Ovuomaroro Studio Press
Subject: African Studies
STATUS: Available
Contact: Bofound.ng@gmail.com

This book has introductions by Drs. Richard Singletary and Pat Oyelola.
The Ibiebe series by Bruce Onobrakpeya features his invented script of ideographic geometric and curvilinear glyphs. The designs reflect the artist's knowledge of his Urhobo heritage, rich in symbols and the proverbs they elicit, as well as his appreciation of Chinese, Japanese, Ghanaian and Nigerian calligraphy. Onobrakpeya invented and refined this script called Ibiebe from 1978 to 1986, when he revisited in his art, ideas linked with traditional religion, customs and history. The artist clearly delights in the script's forms and visual qualities as well as its power to communicate.These ibiebe ideograms which are often abstract, also lend themselves to calligraphic, painterly and sculptural presentation.