Sekasiko’s artwork enchants
Sep 18, 2011
EMMANUEL Sekasiko is your typical Ugandan painter – playing safe with nearly everything, taking us through familiar territory and managing to hold us there. I love his work and his ways around the canvas.
By Stephen Ssenkaaba
EMMANUEL Sekasiko is your typical Ugandan painter – playing safe with nearly everything, taking us through familiar territory and managing to hold us there. I love his work and his ways around the canvas.
His show is worth a visit if you love art for its sake. If you love to discover something new, you will have to wait a little longer. For now his palette teases the eye and in the words of one young lady, “makes you thinkâ€.
Sekasiko a graduate of the Makerere University art school.
His solo painting art exhibit starts tomorrow at AKA Gallery opposite Crested Towers building.
It will run until October 15. Sekasiko’s work largely explores nature, particularly women and animals.
He handles his subject with considerable care, negotiating intricate geometric patterns and blending all sorts of colours to produce a different shades. Proportions do not seem to matter to this young artist whose first attempt at art involved drawing childhood images on the walls of his parents’ home.
“My mum whipped me for it,†he says. But today his passion has paid off.
Women figures feature quite prominently in Sekasiko’s work.
There is a celebratory character about how he puts the female image together, emphasising the curves in some of them and showering them in bright distorted colours.
His message though is more serious.
They are vulnerable and often abused, they need protection,†he says. You see the vulnerability in the mild carefully crafted colour schemes with which he executes the various figures and the poignant symbolism of his subjects (as in the pregnant woman before a line of clothes and a group of women sailing on a lake).
He also presents animals, plants and birds in his exploration of nature – little interesting species in various forms.
Line plays only a minor part, giving more prominence to round, cubical patterns against strong, colourful backgrounds. Sekasiko’s work is interesting.
EMMANUEL Sekasiko is your typical Ugandan painter – playing safe with nearly everything, taking us through familiar territory and managing to hold us there. I love his work and his ways around the canvas.
His show is worth a visit if you love art for its sake. If you love to discover something new, you will have to wait a little longer. For now his palette teases the eye and in the words of one young lady, “makes you thinkâ€.
Sekasiko a graduate of the Makerere University art school.
His solo painting art exhibit starts tomorrow at AKA Gallery opposite Crested Towers building.
It will run until October 15. Sekasiko’s work largely explores nature, particularly women and animals.
He handles his subject with considerable care, negotiating intricate geometric patterns and blending all sorts of colours to produce a different shades. Proportions do not seem to matter to this young artist whose first attempt at art involved drawing childhood images on the walls of his parents’ home.
“My mum whipped me for it,†he says. But today his passion has paid off.
Women figures feature quite prominently in Sekasiko’s work.
There is a celebratory character about how he puts the female image together, emphasising the curves in some of them and showering them in bright distorted colours.
His message though is more serious.
They are vulnerable and often abused, they need protection,†he says. You see the vulnerability in the mild carefully crafted colour schemes with which he executes the various figures and the poignant symbolism of his subjects (as in the pregnant woman before a line of clothes and a group of women sailing on a lake).
He also presents animals, plants and birds in his exploration of nature – little interesting species in various forms.
Line plays only a minor part, giving more prominence to round, cubical patterns against strong, colourful backgrounds. Sekasiko’s work is interesting.