After some lull, Wangboje’s Art Gallery on Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos is back to Lagos exhibition circuit with the hosting of the fourth solo exhibition of paintings by Ayoola Mudasiru tagged: Echoes of an open eye, holding on April 4.
The exhibition, which will feature about 50 artworks, is predominantly to showcase the artist’s choice style he calls hula motif; an Hausa word for head gear, which he picked from the dress code of Hausas living in Agege area of Lagos.
According to the founder Wangboje’s Art Gallery, Mrs Iwoje Wangboje-Eguavoen, the exhibition is meant to re-launch the gallery back to the consciousness of the artists, patrons and art enthusiasts. “It has been a while the gallery has been off the art scene because of some challenges, which I have put behind me now.
So, flagging off with this exhibition, the gallery is back in full operation, bigger and better to serve the art community,” she said.
“This is about my fourth solo. Most of the other solo shows have been in Abuja, which are not properly documented. So, in a way, this would be my first standard exhibition with brochure,” he said.
Mudasiru described Echoes of an open eye as a play of words around focus, noting that it is something I have been doing for a long time and I keep on doing it. It is a kind of spiritual title, which just came up and I later got the meaning and worked towards it,”
In 2000, he made some good sales from the hula motifs during a group art exhibition of Best of Ife at the National Museum, Onikan Lagos. “That was my first major outing of hula motifs. And I had the highest number of arts works and all were hula motifs,” he recalled.
The exhibition will be chaired by founder OYASAF, Omooba Yemisi Shyllon, while former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is special guest. Royal Father of the day is Oba Kabiru Shotobi, the Ayangburen of Ikorodu. The show will run till April 18.
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