“Roots and Routes “ Has Been Featured In Opera Gallery In Dubai
The Opera Gallery is one of the most popular art gallery in Dubai. It had a stunning exhibition of animates the artists of the new Ghanaian scene recently. This exhibition was named “Roots and Routes”
Iranart:Azadeh jafarian:“Roots and Routes: From Ghana to Dubai” has featured artworks by David Kofi Amoateng, Aplerh-Doku Borlabi, Adjei Tawiah, Aboudia, Rufai Zakari, Cornelius Annor, Lord Ohene Okyere-Bour, Raphael Ajetey Mayne and Annan Affotey.
Eyes are speaking to viewers. This artists make artworks that look at you directly. Each one thinks of something different that you want to know about them but their feelings transferred to you. The dark faces with Impressive eyes . Artists desired to show powerful hands and heavy materials. They displayed how they used their skills and techniques and Geographical signs in their works. Bright and graphically colorful art works are one of another things in this collection. They use especially material from their experiences that have signature from their land.
The exhibited portraits impose their magnetic presence, playing with figurative registers, sometimes expressionist, imbued with both joy and nostalgia. Flat areas and bright colors serve a great stylistic richness. For Ghanaian artists share a love of technical and pictorial experimentation.
The Opera Gallery adventure began almost 30 years ago, in 1994, when two first exhibition spaces opened simultaneously in Paris and in Singapore with the aim of showing international emerging artists alongside masters of Contemporary and Modern Art. today opra gallery expanded to include now sixteen spaces locations around the world: in New York, Miami, Miami Bal Harbour, Aspen, London, Monaco, Geneva, Dubai, Beirut, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Madrid.
Opera gallery presents work across all media including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and video .