Tulifanya Art Gallery to boost the visual art industry
Jan 13, 2005
AS the visual arts’ ball get rolling, the art loving fraternity anticipates yet another year of talent and innovation
By Stephen Ssenkaaba
AS the visual arts’ ball get rolling, the art loving fraternity anticipates yet another year of talent and innovation. And as has been predicted by enthusiasts, the visual arts industry is already looking forward to young up-coming artists to carry forward the banner of one of Uganda’s fastest growing cultural trades.
Tulifanya gallery located behind Crested Towers building is already on board, hosting over 15 young visual artists this month in the first ever such exhibition this year.
The one-month exhibition opening tomorrow, harnesses the raw unexplored talent of many upcoming visual artists.
Some of the participants at the exhibition are self-taught, while others will participate in a major exhibition for the first time. Do not expect perfection at the exhibition.
What we have is a collection of virgin painting wrought with a richly imaginative and painfully passionate presentation.
The exhibition manifests the various faces of Uganda. It highlights a typical Uganda blessed with colour, beautiful environment, wildlife, people, but also infested with problems.
Each of the artists uses different themes ranging from life in the city, activities in the country and life in the wild to portray their interpretation of life around them.
While some artists like Anwar Saad, Majara show an inclination to old school conventional styles like abstract painting and use acrylics, oils, water, colour and canvas, others like Edson Mugalu apply conservative approaches, using backcloth and cowrie shells and other local materials to give their work an indigenous outlook.
A few of them like Ojok Daniel and Damba Ismael venture into the new, discarding their print making style to big canvass painting. This blend of the traditional and contemporary lends a universal appeal to these young painters’ work. For indeed this exhibition thrives on a variety not only of material, but also of styles and ideas.
Whatever different ways they go, these young men keep the viewer’s interest. I, for instance, find Majara’s somber-coloured wavy glazes across the canvass torturing to the eye and mind. Anwar’s peaceful blend of the cool sky blues and the creams fused into long gloomy faces is engaging. Yet Jude Kateete’s dotted images (Pointillism) is simply too creative to ignore.
Saad Lukwago’s dull palate depicting gloomy faces of street children is haunting. At one point, it feels like you are part of the painting. Art is about emotions.
AS the visual arts’ ball get rolling, the art loving fraternity anticipates yet another year of talent and innovation. And as has been predicted by enthusiasts, the visual arts industry is already looking forward to young up-coming artists to carry forward the banner of one of Uganda’s fastest growing cultural trades.
Tulifanya gallery located behind Crested Towers building is already on board, hosting over 15 young visual artists this month in the first ever such exhibition this year.
The one-month exhibition opening tomorrow, harnesses the raw unexplored talent of many upcoming visual artists.
Some of the participants at the exhibition are self-taught, while others will participate in a major exhibition for the first time. Do not expect perfection at the exhibition.
What we have is a collection of virgin painting wrought with a richly imaginative and painfully passionate presentation.
The exhibition manifests the various faces of Uganda. It highlights a typical Uganda blessed with colour, beautiful environment, wildlife, people, but also infested with problems.
Each of the artists uses different themes ranging from life in the city, activities in the country and life in the wild to portray their interpretation of life around them.
While some artists like Anwar Saad, Majara show an inclination to old school conventional styles like abstract painting and use acrylics, oils, water, colour and canvas, others like Edson Mugalu apply conservative approaches, using backcloth and cowrie shells and other local materials to give their work an indigenous outlook.
A few of them like Ojok Daniel and Damba Ismael venture into the new, discarding their print making style to big canvass painting. This blend of the traditional and contemporary lends a universal appeal to these young painters’ work. For indeed this exhibition thrives on a variety not only of material, but also of styles and ideas.
Whatever different ways they go, these young men keep the viewer’s interest. I, for instance, find Majara’s somber-coloured wavy glazes across the canvass torturing to the eye and mind. Anwar’s peaceful blend of the cool sky blues and the creams fused into long gloomy faces is engaging. Yet Jude Kateete’s dotted images (Pointillism) is simply too creative to ignore.
Saad Lukwago’s dull palate depicting gloomy faces of street children is haunting. At one point, it feels like you are part of the painting. Art is about emotions.