Emmanuel Eni

Emmanuel Eni, 2015

Emmanuel Eni (* 1967 in Igbanke in Nigeria) - Blackman in european kitchen - is a Nigerian painter, sculptor, multimedia and Performance Artist, poet philosopher, whose works include paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, Performance and poetry.

Biography

Emmanuel Eni studied art at Igbobi College in Lagos and from 1982 to 1984 Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University Auchi and earned the OND (Ordinary national diploma) in Fine Arts. Bachelor of arts degree in Sculpture at University of Benin Nigeria. Eni exhibited at several Biennales including d'art contemporain de Lyon, the Biennale in Dakar (Dak'Art) and documenta 12 in Kassel Germany. He is lecturer in private and public institutions. Considered one of the most outstanding contemporary artists of Africa and the Western world. The Guardian describes his work as an iconoclast of unusual proportions.

Emmanuel Eni is one of the most outstanding contemporary artists in Africa and the Western world. Famous for his fearless soul searching philosophical Art. The Guardian describes his work as iconoclast of uncommon proportions. The Crystallization of art in their different media which he propagates as "Contemporary Barock Art". Emmanuel Eni is the writer and performer of "Blackman in European kitchen", the creator of the "basic metric scale for art products" in "Death of the curator" drama, the inventor of New - light painting Art.

Well-known sculptures

Emmanuel Eni creates sculptures in bronze, fiber Glass, re-enforced Concrete and Terra Kota. His works focuses on the use of recycled and commonly used materials and also very new and modern materials. His famous work include "Elephant" which for the artist represents the mother of all animals and the largest terrestrial mammal. Emmanuel Eni claims that without elephants nature will no longer exist.

Emmanuel Eni's "Elephant"s shape, size and color dons it "alfa sign of a form of natures Comprehensiveness" in the wide acclaim of the work. The sculpture "Elephant" is made of steel Re-enforced concrete with the Elephants complexion of "earths colour" just emerging from a mud bath.

Famous Installations

"Israel and palestine" installation by Emmanuel Eni is a shaped wall of recycled, empty up to 100 (also variable) jerry cans adorned with dynamite dummies. It is an installation that shows conflict and its result. Beyond plausible and currently threatened countries which are at war. Their belligerence of open and constant threats to world peace, using Warheads and missiles to cross borders of combat. The installation also shows the formal language of two components, one of which does not exist in the same context without the other. An anxious euphoria to the modern art of war.

Famous Performances

"Peace Restoration performance"- Israel and Palestine. developed from the installation with the same title the peace restoration performance grew to present a platform to deconstruct and interact with the visual installation. Here the performer employs the flags of Israel and the flag of Palestine. Waving the flag in chaos and frenzy as the flags engage each other in strikes and aggressive counter strikes. Projecting continuous break down of peace. The performance climaxes to the rolling and tying up of the two flags, in a ceremonial pattern suggesting continued efforts at peace.

"Blackman in european kitchen" - a poetic dance musical poem- lyric.

Clearly one of the most celebrated works of Emmanuel Eni, in about 70 performances in Africa, Europe, USA and Scandinavia. Published in "Masquaradeundressing" poetry collection, written by Emmanuel Eni. Published by CPN Publishers United Kingdom in 2006. Blackman in European kitchen poetic musical dance performance is performed by performer / poet Emmanuel Eni, 2 drummers and 3 dancers with a duration of 25 Minutes. Blackman in European kitchen- is about an African who suddenly finds himself in a European kitchen. As he was hungry, he had to cook, as well as his hostess a woman named Sabina celebrating her birthday, including many expected guests. His observation of the kitchen as a great, shiny piano brought new ways to overcome his great challenge. The confrontation with the new kitchen, compared to his old world, draws connections in the differences and similarities of different cultures.

Exhibitions

• „Brightness of the picture" - Sculptures and paintings, Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Bavaria, Germany
• „Haske Zanen“ - Sculptures, paintings and Performance with New-Light - Painting - Art
• Thought pyramid Gallery Abuja / German embassy Abuja Nigeria
• „Art Merchant“ - Sculptures and paintings, National museum Lagos, Nigeria
• Diverse lecture activities in Sculpture, Installation, audiovisual performance and literature
• „Leaf spirit totem“ - 7 m ​​high sculpture for Syke, Bremen Germany (Wood, Terra Kota, Mirror glass, 2011)
• „Blackman in European kitchen“, ICD Institute for cultural diplomacy, Berlin, Germany
• „Ear as a long road“ - poetic Performance, Berlin, Poetry Festival Lyricline
• „Consciences and frontiers“ Installation „Israel und Palestine“ und "Knowledge is power" - SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
• Exhibition / Performance Israel und Palestine „Schlachtfelder“/Battlefields Anniversary of 250. years battle - city of Minden, Germany
• „Black History month“ - Africa reflection - Sculptures and paintings, America Haus, Berlin, Germany
• „2nd African Legends Performance“ poetic musical dance Performance, America Haus, Berlin, Germany
• ARESUVA - African regional summit for visual arts, Abuja, Nigeria
• Visiting profesor New media / performance/ Art University Berlin Weißensee. Kunsthochschule Berlin - Weißensee Berlin, Germany
• „Africanize“ Installation - Grassi Museum, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Leipzig, Germany
• „Africanize“ Installation KUNSTBANKEN Museum Hamar, Norway
• „Blackman in European Kitchen“ - Installation / Performance, Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
• „CharacterLAGOStika“, Goethe-Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
• „Death of the curator“ Installation / Performance, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
• „CrossCulture“ Installation / Performance - Goethe-Institute, Dakar, Senegal
• Publication „Death of the curator“ Drama. E.N.I Publishers, Berlin
• Group Show „Black Paris“ African position on contemporary art of Diaspora. Paris France, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
• „Blackman in European kitchen“ - Performance Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
• „Israel and Palestine“ Installation / Performance Dakart 2006 Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
• „Junking of the Elephant“ – Destruction of a 20 ton heavy "Elephant" Monument of re-enforced Steel Concrete - Before a live Audience. For the Ecology and nature
• „Death of the curator“ Installation / Performance, Grassi museum Leipzig, Saxony Ethnographic collection, Germany
• Guest professor Sculpture - Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA
• Publication „Maskuaradeundressing“ (Poems, Tales and Stories), CPN- publishers, England
• „Water Burns“ - Exhibition / Installation on "Water Uses" in the New Millennium Vienna, Austria
• „History of love“ - Sculptures and paintings. Galerie im Prater, Berlin, Germany
• Making of „Elephant“ (20 Ton monument for nature) und Making of „Leaf“ (7 Meters high monument for Nature) Steel concrete
• „Characteristics of living things“, Castle Colombi Park, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
• „Parts of CIay“ - Centre Monroe for the Arts, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
• „Clear Walls“ - Lisa Parker Fine Art New York, USA
• „Parables“ - National museum, Lagos, Nigeria
• „Creation Story“ - Albertus - Magnus - Haus, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
• Drawing School, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Bibliography

• Emmanuel Eni: Death of the curator. Berlin 2007.
• Emmanuel Eni: elephants and new – light paintings (Ausstellung vom 19. August bis 9. Oktober 2011, Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Hrsg.: Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Kulturamt. Projektmitarbeiter: Anja Braun, Stefan Martinkat)
• Emmanuel Eni: the Art of Blackman in European kitchen. 2017.

External links

• Death of the Curator-Kunstinstallation im Leipzig Museum of Ethnography
• Emmanuel Eni facebook-Profil
• Blackman in European kitchen - public figure, facebook-Auftritt

References

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