This is for a very rare contemporary piece by modern artist Kelani Abass of Lagos, Nigeria. This is from his iconic 'Scrap of Evidence' series titled 'Scrap of Evidence: Cifurian' signed, titled and dated 2018 on the reverse. The appearance of visible age to the art and the frame is inherent to the work. This in excellent original condition.
 
In 2009 Kelani Abass discovered a unique family record that would forever change the course of his artistic practice. It sparked the idea for "Scrap of Evidence" –a powerful mixed media series that combines archival photographs, paintings, and metallic letters and symbols sourced from his father’s old printing press.
 
For his three-dimensional works the artist uses old portrait photographs, often reproduced as small paintings, which he retrieves from the archives inherited from his father's publishing business. Metal typefaces and other elements from the world of printing are added to these compositions. The relationship to memory and the importance of the archive assumes another dimension in his graphic work, where he recreates some of the images by repeated imprints applied with an ink pad.
 
Among many other accolades, the works by Kelani Abass have been shown in The Museum of Modern Art(MOMA) and auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's. This guy has been in it for a long time now, no overnight fads or hype. *Artist's history below.
 
 
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CURRICULUM VITAE

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SOLO SHOWS

2022

Oxford University, Oxford – UK

Unfolding Layers of Time, ArtX Curated Projects, Lagos - NG

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2020
1-54 Christie’s, 31 PROJECT, Paris - FR

Iranti, 31 PROJECT, Paris – FR

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GROUP SHOWS

2023

A World in Common : Contemporary African Photography, TATE modern, London, UK

New Photography 2023, MoMA, New York City - USA

Are We Free to Move About the World: The Passport in Contemporary Art, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee - USA

Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, Gropius Bau, Berlin - DE

Art Genève, 31 PROJECT, Genève - CH

Effet de Groupe, 31 PROJECT, Paris - FR

Cape Town Art Fair, 31 PROJECT, Cape Town - SA

 

2022

Um Defeito de Cor, MAR Museum, Rio - BR

Untitled, 31 PROJECT, Miami - USA

Fragments, 31 PROJECT x Galerie Antoine Dupin, Cancale - FR

KIAF, 31 PROJECT, Seoul - KR

[Re:] Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge - UK

Cinquième Biennale Internationale de Casablanca – MA

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2021
Artissima, 31 PROJECT, Turin – IT

1-54, 31 PROJECT, Londres – UK

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2020

Art Paris Art Fair, 31 PROJECT, Paris - FR

SMALL, 31 PROJECT, Paris – FR

Three Borders, Palais de Lome – TGO

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2019

No Room for Fear, SMO Contemporary art, Londres – UK

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2017

Ori Meta, Odun Meta, Ibikan, ISCP, New York – USA

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2014

Painting the Cliché, Hohensalzburg Fortress – AU

Art for Peace, African Union, Addis Ababa – ETH

Art for Peace, Damla Art House, Istanbul – TR

Art for Peace, Waldorf Astoria, New York – USA

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2010

City of a ThoÉtats-Unisnd Masks, Caterina de Medici/3rd Black Heritage

Exhibition, Nike Art Gallery, Lagos – NG

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2005

Within Our Grasp, National Museum, Lagos – NG

 

AWARDS

Candidats du prix James Barnor pour la photographie, juillet 2022

 

WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES

2022

The Room Projects, Bernède – FR

​2020

Malt Air, Maltfabrikken, Ebetoft – DK

2018

Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco – USA

2014

Salzbourg Int. Summer Academy, Painting the cliché – AU