Geoffrey Mukasa the creator
Oct 09, 2003
AS an artist, Geoffrey Mukasa is a co-creator in his own right. He looks at life and what it has to offer, appreciates it and uses his fertile imagination to create images
By Stephen Ssenkaaba
AS an artist, Geoffrey Mukasa is a co-creator in his own right. He looks at life and what it has to offer, appreciates it and uses his fertile imagination to create images.
He is holding an exhibition at Tulifanya Gallery, on Hannington Road, near the MTN headquarters from tomorrow to October 31.
It will feature a collection of his works in human and still life.
In what appears free style painting, Mukasa chooses to focus on two major subjects for this year’s exhibition: The female human anatomy and still life.
In the former, he uses a combination of oil on canvas pasted on barkcloth and paper cuttings on cardboard to explore the female anatomy.
He applies collage to bring out some of the most outstanding features on the female body.
Using thick and thin lines, dotted with light and dark shades, Mukasa critically looks at each part of a woman’s body, leaving very little to the imagination.
Through his art, he depicts women as round shaped curvaceous beings with round breasts and ample round bottoms.
This not only portrays his obsession for well endowed female bodies, but also creates a false impression of the female anatomy, which, in reality, turns out in different body sizes and shapes.
However, the dominant presence of the blue and gold colour in nearly all his paintings of the female body not only gives a monotonous composition to many of his paintings, it also portrays his art as lacking in variety.
So is his obsession with the fat female.
“They are the people who bring us into this world. They excite me,†says Mukasa with a chuckle.
While his paintings of the female body are predominately done in either blue or gold colours, Mukasa’s works in still life take on a somewhat different style.
Dotted with light yellow, white and cream hues, against dark blues, a little bit of reds and browns, many of his still life images present a richness in colour lacking in his paintings of the female body.
Mukasa could be described as a breakaway artist with a penchant for distortion.
Inspired by the Western oriented Greek anatomy, his style features very little, almost no traces of realism, but relies greatly on distorted figures to portray his message.
In a bid to come up with unique images, the experienced artist discards his works from their original forms and surroundings and creates his own images out of them.
For example, some paintings of women have triangular curves on them in the place of arms and legs.
He presents the women’s breasts as oranges.
One of his paintings shows a cock seemingly standing on a tray filled with fish and bottles.
A number of his still life paintings feature cocks.
This, according to him is because of the cultural significance and majestic poise of the cock.
Even though he seems to be inclined to distortion in most of his work, Mukasa labours to apply realism to his painting.
For example, he draws real human faces with full-blown facial features.
It is this skill to blend realism and distortion that gives his art a contemporary touch.
AS an artist, Geoffrey Mukasa is a co-creator in his own right. He looks at life and what it has to offer, appreciates it and uses his fertile imagination to create images.
He is holding an exhibition at Tulifanya Gallery, on Hannington Road, near the MTN headquarters from tomorrow to October 31.
It will feature a collection of his works in human and still life.
In what appears free style painting, Mukasa chooses to focus on two major subjects for this year’s exhibition: The female human anatomy and still life.
In the former, he uses a combination of oil on canvas pasted on barkcloth and paper cuttings on cardboard to explore the female anatomy.
He applies collage to bring out some of the most outstanding features on the female body.
Using thick and thin lines, dotted with light and dark shades, Mukasa critically looks at each part of a woman’s body, leaving very little to the imagination.
Through his art, he depicts women as round shaped curvaceous beings with round breasts and ample round bottoms.
This not only portrays his obsession for well endowed female bodies, but also creates a false impression of the female anatomy, which, in reality, turns out in different body sizes and shapes.
However, the dominant presence of the blue and gold colour in nearly all his paintings of the female body not only gives a monotonous composition to many of his paintings, it also portrays his art as lacking in variety.
So is his obsession with the fat female.
“They are the people who bring us into this world. They excite me,†says Mukasa with a chuckle.
While his paintings of the female body are predominately done in either blue or gold colours, Mukasa’s works in still life take on a somewhat different style.
Dotted with light yellow, white and cream hues, against dark blues, a little bit of reds and browns, many of his still life images present a richness in colour lacking in his paintings of the female body.
Mukasa could be described as a breakaway artist with a penchant for distortion.
Inspired by the Western oriented Greek anatomy, his style features very little, almost no traces of realism, but relies greatly on distorted figures to portray his message.
In a bid to come up with unique images, the experienced artist discards his works from their original forms and surroundings and creates his own images out of them.
For example, some paintings of women have triangular curves on them in the place of arms and legs.
He presents the women’s breasts as oranges.
One of his paintings shows a cock seemingly standing on a tray filled with fish and bottles.
A number of his still life paintings feature cocks.
This, according to him is because of the cultural significance and majestic poise of the cock.
Even though he seems to be inclined to distortion in most of his work, Mukasa labours to apply realism to his painting.
For example, he draws real human faces with full-blown facial features.
It is this skill to blend realism and distortion that gives his art a contemporary touch.