{"id":159,"date":"2012-09-04T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vervega.ro\/?p=159"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:56:09","slug":"africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vervega.ro\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/africa\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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1999-2000<\/span><\/p>\n

We all have a path to walk, and I believe that the path is the most important thing in our lives. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, the path depends largely on our choices, but it is mostly influenced by the context in which we find ourselves at a given moment and the people we find ourselves with. <\/span><\/p>\n

If someone had told me that I would go to Africa, I would never have believed it, but, lo and behold, three years after I graduated from the Academy of Arts, in 1999, though a set of given circumstances, I went to Nigeria, where I lived for 9 months. <\/span><\/p>\n

At first, it was difficult to get used to \u201canother world\u201d, because it is indeed another world, entirely different from the European space. <\/span><\/p>\n

I needed time to accommodate and get used to the new space, and only after 3 months I was given a workshop where I began to work. <\/span><\/p>\n

But work on what?<\/span><\/p>\n

After travelling through many cities and lands (Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna and <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0<\/p>

Yankari), I had the opportunity to see, sense and smell another climate,\u00a0<\/span>other shapes and colours, other human typologies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

I believe, nevertheless, that I was most influenced by the light and by the ripe colours of Africa, with its red earth and exotic plants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

I discovered the fascinating Nigerian world, a simple, exotic, occult world, with an impressive artistic tradition. The wooden sculptures and masks, the instruments used in various rituals, thrilled my senses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This passage from a space into another space and this time off work inevitably made me rethink and rephrase everything on the surface.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In my workshop, I began to paint on small cut-out fragments of already prepared canvas, and then I made many drawings and sketches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The more I worked, the simpler things became on the surface!<\/span><\/p>

Despite the difficulties I met in Nigeria, I believe that my African period meant a new beginning for my art.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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