The Africa's port race (2022) Painting by Aluu Prosper

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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Acrylic / Collages on Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 25.5in, Width 14.5in
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  • Categories Paintings under $1,000 Conceptual Art
On December 15th, Ricardo Reboredo & Elisa Gambino wrote that Africa’s ports race is hyped as ‘development’ but also creates pathways for plunder. This key information was expressed in my painting with images of the past and present managing directors of the Nigerian ports authority as at December 2022. Stating, African countries[...]
On December 15th, Ricardo Reboredo & Elisa Gambino wrote that Africa’s ports race is hyped as ‘development’ but also creates pathways for plunder. This key information was expressed in my painting with images of the past and present managing directors of the Nigerian ports authority as at December 2022.
Stating, African countries have long relied on primary commodity exports. This system, which began during the colonial period, largely continues today. The majority of African economies are still set up around two production systems: the export of oil and minerals, or the export of tropical agricultural products (there are a few exceptions, including Morocco).
The ports race is symptomatic of a new pattern in national development.
African politicians are aiming to use the export of unprocessed resources and commodities to develop pockets of domestic value-addition in certain strategic industries. This strategy has become ubiquitous under the umbrella of “resource-led development”. Yet it creates the conditions for the continued plunder of African resources and for hugely environmentally or socially damaging processes.
These paintings of mine are intended to preserve African and mostly Nigerian stories of the present which will play a useful part of the future by using newspapers for collages in my works.
To preserve culture, we must continue to create it.

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Aluu Prosper is a contemporary Nigerian painter. His usually stylized figures show the use of the artistic devices of elongation and exaggeration, as well as his unique style of[...]

Aluu Prosper is a contemporary Nigerian painter. His usually stylized figures show the use of the artistic devices of elongation and exaggeration, as well as his unique style of painting the iconic afro hairstyle. These are his ways of celebrating and negotiating African identity. In traditional African art visual codes, the exaggeration of the head in comparison to other parts of the body is a well-known visual strategy to establish the head as the seat of wisdom and intellectual prowess according to the beliefs in parts of Africa. Prosper plays with the size, forms and presentation of the head of the figures in his paintings as a visual pun to challenge what he considers a one-sided narrative about the size of the head in traditional African art. His style of painting rich afro hairstyle and golden crowns on the heads of his figures are meant to ennoble and dignify the subjects in his work.

Prosper's work does not aim to rehearse the negative stereotypes in African people's relationship with other races; instead, he strives to look beyond negative experiences by painting luscious images of the African people resplendent in beautiful apparel and striking pieces of diadem. By using Nigerian newspapers in his works, he tells stories of the past by preserving stories of the present. While he focuses on black identity, with this he believes that in order to preserve culture, he must continue to create it. Aluu Prosper exhibited his works in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa.



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