{"id":2874,"date":"2014-04-19T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2014-04-16T17:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T21:08:16","slug":"victor-ekpuk-krannert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/victor-ekpuk-krannert\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Ekpuk at Krannert Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Moonwalk<\/p>\n

24 January-27 July 2014<\/p>\n

Victor Ekpuk: “Auto-Graphics”<\/p>\n

Victor Ekpuk\u2019s collages are explorations in surface, texture and form. \u201cSometimes, when I approach the paper, I paste instead of draw.\u201d In these whimsical compositions, Ekpuk incorporates his deft, hand-drawn lines into acts of tearing, layering, and assembling.<\/p>\n

Nigerian-born artist Victor Ekpuk is best known for his improvisational use of nsibidi,<\/i> a form of ideographic writing associated with Ekpe, the powerful, transethnic men\u2019s association active in the southern border regions of Nigeria and Cameroon. As a student of fine arts at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife in the mid-1980s, Ekpuk worked in a pedagogical environment informed by onaism,<\/i> a Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 aesthetic philosophy that urged students to explore the logics of pattern and design in indigenous African art forms. Ekpuk\u2019s fascination with nsibidi<\/i> during these years\u2014its economy of line and encoded meanings\u2014led to his broader explorations of drawing as writing, and to the invention of his own fluid letterforms. As a mature artist, Ekpuk has so internalized the rhythm and contours of his \u201cscript\u201d that it flows from his hand like the outpouring of a personal archive.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Ekpuk\u2019s approach to mark making has come to flourish through his investigations of scale, motion, and form. “Auto-Graphics” features selections from several of Ekpuk\u2019s new bodies of work, including collage, digital prints, and his supersized drawings\u2014bold, vibrant, yet restrained compositions in which nsibidi<\/i> signs are magnified, cropped, and glided beyond the picture plane. Their dense grounds of micro-script and bristling opaque forms contrast with the more figural works on view. Like nsibidi,<\/i> which communicates through both visual mark and physical gesture, Ekpuk\u2019s immersive drawings seem to be choreographed with the full force of his body.<\/p>\n

Victor Ekpuk works across a range of media, including painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture, installation, and public art projects. He was also a political illustrator\/cartoonist for the prominent Nigerian newspaper, The Daily News<\/em>, before moving to the United States in 1999. Ekpuk has held numerous residencies at art institutions and universities throughout the United States and in Nigeria, the Netherlands, and France. His work has been collected by major institutions and has been featured in international exhibitions\u2014including the upcoming Dak\u2019art Biennale (Dakar, Senegal) in May 2014. Ekpuk currently lives and works in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

(from the gallery’s press materials)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Krannert Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion<\/strong>
\nCollege of Fine and Applied Arts
\nUniversity of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
\n500 East Peabody Drive
\nChampaign, Illinois 61820 USA
\n(217) 333-1861<\/p>\n

Hours:<\/strong>
\nTuesday-Wednesday & Friday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM
\nThursday, 9AM-9PM
\nSunday, 2-5PM<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0| FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Image:<\/strong>
\nMoon Walk<\/em>
\nby Victor Ekpuk
\n23″x19″
\npastel, acrylic, graphite and collage on paper
\nc. 2012
\nCollection of the artist. \u00a9 Victor Ekpuk
\nCourtesy of Krannert Art Museum, Champaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

24 January-27 July 2014 Victor Ekpuk: “Auto-Graphics” Victor Ekpuk\u2019s collages are explorations in surface, texture and form. \u201cSometimes, when I approach the paper, I paste instead of draw.\u201d In these whimsical compositions, Ekpuk incorporates his deft, hand-drawn lines into acts…<\/p>\n

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