Masquerade costumes like the one on view in the exhibition One: Egúngún are a vibrant part of Yorùbá

Masquerade costumes like the one on view in the exhibition One: Egúngún are a vibrant part of Yorùbá culture. Masquerades are depicted elsewhere in Nigeria, including the shrines in the sacred Ọ̀ṣun-Oṣogbo grove. Adebisi the younger sculpted these distinctive cement figures in 2016. Can’t make it to Oṣogbo to see them? Come to Harlem’s Black National Theatre to see works made by his father Adebisi Akanji, one of the grove’s original sculptors. As he recalled in a 2018 interview, Akanji completed these works while staying in Brooklyn in the 1980s. Works by father and son are made in the style of the Oṣogbo School artists, who pioneered the use of dynamic figures and bold angles to present a modern vision of Yorùbá heritage in the 1960s.Posted by Kristen Windmuller-LunaPhotos Top: Kristen Windmuller-Luna and Bottom: annulla on Flickr. -- source link

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