JOSEPH DAVID OTOBO

b. 1986, Nigeria

Joseph David Otobo was born in 1986 in Nigeria and studied at Yaba College of Technology. He is a conceptual visual artist who likes to experiment: in his two-dimensional works he uses a variety of materials and does not limit himself to painting alone. His subjects come from observing the social and economic situation of his immediate surroundings, details of nature and their colours. The painting offered by the gallery, "Victoria 1" (2021, 90 × 90 cm), is a portrait of a young woman: a purple sweater, a pale circle behind her head, and branches with leaves and clusters of dark berries on either side against a brown-orange background. The work is reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition „Šiuolaikinė Afrikos dailė: tapatybės svajos ir realijos“ (Contemporary African Art: Dreams and Realities of Identity, 2022).

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