New Face Exhibition At Chevron Plaza

Kenya Thu 25-01-2007

New Face Exhibition At Chevron Plaza
By Maggie Otieno

Come experience art revisited! A collection of tasteful art to satisfy the senses. AfricanColours, in collaboration with Mars Group, is proud to present the New Face Exhibition currently at the Chevron Plaza.

The building, located in Parklands, provides an excellent walk-in walk out space for the display of art work. The exhibition brings together artists from Kenya, Sudan and Zimbabwe including Beatrice Njoroge, Kamisha John, Simon Muriithi, Okello Anthony, Kamal Shah, Salah Ammar, Yassir Ali and Stephen Garan'anga among others.

The exhibition, which opened on January the 15th, presents a rich blend of colour and texture and brings in a delicate and lively feel within the building.

The exhibition space will be available to artists who want to have solo or group Exhibitions. They can contact AfricanColours for more details about the space. The exhibition runs through to February the 24th, 2007.

Stephen Garan'anga's work welcomes you to the exhibition entrance space. Using the drypoint method of print making, his are settings of a typical daily routine for many people in and outside the precincts of the big town life. Obviously scenes from his home in Zimbabwe, it echoes in each piece of work a reflection of Nairobi in different scenarios.

Talking of Kamisha's work.. he says of the themes that characterises most of his works, which ideally is animals in the abstract. "I create my own kind of animals, to be like God and to add my ideas to what already exists". Beatrice sets of faces presents one with a sense of solitude calmness.

They are tranquil yet provides a sense of restless curiousity with the random use of the pallet knife and thick paint texture. "These are studies of my own self potraits". They are among her recent series that she is working on at her studio at the Godown arts Centre. For those who do not understand the world of abstract, the works of Tabitha, Salah and Yassir would not make sense.

The colours and texture that is subject to the artworks reflects the 'creative act' which many times is selfish yet fulfilling to those who appreciate colour if for anything else.

This exhibition, the first organised by AfricanColours at Chevron Plaza, is the beginning of a new avant-garde art by upcoming and established artists that will be featuring works all year round.

We are calling on all artists to come up and use this new space to feature, installation, sculptures, video art and to bring a new passion to exhibition spaces. As one Elimo Njau, proprietor Paa ya Paa gallery once said, "Meanings are brought to people because of passion".

Posted By: African Colours

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