A Bird in Flight Worth More Than Two in a Cage….
A Bird in Flight Worth More Than Two in a Cage… At the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art in Lagos, an exhibition of Chika Okeke-Agulu’s work turns the spotlight on his career as a studio artist, a side of the US-based At the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art in Lagos, an exhibition of Chika Okeke-Agulu’s work turns the spotlight on his career as a studio artist, a side of the US-based scholar better known for writing about other artists.
Okechukwu Uwaezuoke writes It is, no doubt, a long way from the 1980s and 1990s.
In his curatorial note, Iheanyi Onwuegbucha rates that period among the most turbulent in Nigeria’s post-civil war history.
For Chika Okeke-Agulu, whose name has lately been more readily associated with art history than with the studio, those years were to leave a deep imprint on both his work and his outlook. The political turmoil of the period, along with the experience of migration, keeps bobbing to the surface in his paintings, drawings and sculptures. Ditto the question of what freedom means when the struggle to secure it never quite ends. The question finds an echo in Chika Okeke-Agulu: Freedom Bird.
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