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The Reiners Contemporary Art gallery, located in Marbella, will host until July 30 the work, for the first time in Spain, ‘Revolutions per minute: side B’ in which the Nigerian artist Idowu Oluwaseun shows with poetic metaphors and references to music , fashion and popular culture, global contempt for African culture and people and gender inequality.
The exhibition displayed in the international gallery that opened in 2019 consists of large-scale acrylics on canvas and studies of acrylics on linen.
Oluwaseun began to paint a kind of anti-portraits in which the eyes and faces of those portrayed are hidden behind pieces of cloth.
The same vibrant colors that are proudly displayed to express community status and cultural bond become a symbolic social nuisance.
“The faces are consciously covered to protect the bearers of my message. And to show how anonymous the minority is, “says the artist, who was trained in Germany and who lives and works in the US.
Oluwaseun pays particular attention to the composition and ambience of his reference images, with a strong emphasis on anatomy, volume, fluidity, color scheme, and play of light.
He works in a meticulously refined realm of realism, but keeps brush strokes, pigments and textures visible to leave an obvious human imprint on the canvas surface.
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