SUNDAY VISUALS at Bookartville

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Sundays are the default opening days for art exhibitions in Lagos. We might as well adopt this last day of the weekend for our weekly testimonies on the visual art scene and the motion picture landscape.

Herewith are the stories we are exploring in this newsletter:
Adapting Soyinka’s “Death and The King’s Horseman”, to ‘Elesin’ was not about Yoruba Nationalism -In a short interview two days to his passing, the film maker Biyi Bandele explained why he had chosen to make a film in Yoruba language out of Soyinka’s most critically acclaimed drama-in-English

Onobrakpeya: A Vessel through Which Art Thrives-In a sprawling tribute to the life and career of Bruce Onobrakpeya, patriarch of all of Nigerian contemporary culture, who turns 90 this month, the painter, art historian and critic délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́ describes a man with a proclivity towards suspicious inquisitiveness. jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́ writes of the celebrant: “ Part of what has sustained his colossus status as an artist is “he has never stood in the way of art. Instead, he has, all his life, offered himself as a tool—a vessel—through which art thrives”.