Emmanuel Eni

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Emmanuel Eni, 2015

Emmanuel Eni (* 1967 in Igbanke , Nigeria ) is a Nigerian painter , sculptor and multimedia artist . His works include painted pictures , sculptures and multimedia installations .

biography

Eni studied art at Igbobi College in Lagos and fine arts at the Polytechnic University of Auchi from 1982 to 1984 and earned the OND (Ordinary national diploma) in Fine Arts . Between 1986 and 1991 he studied at the University of Benin and graduated with a doctorate. From 1992 to 1994 Eni completed a master's degree in "Art" at the Royal Academy of Arts in London .

Internationally, Eni exhibited at the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon , the Biennale in Dakar (Dak'Art) and the documenta 12 in Kassel . He also works as a lecturer in private and public institutions.

Eni is considered one of the outstanding contemporary artists in Africa and the western world. The Guardian describes his work as an iconoclast of unusual proportions.

Well-known sculptures

Emmanuel Eni creates sculptures in bronze and terracotta . More recently it has focused on the use of recycled and commonly used materials. A famous work was "Elephant". For the artist, the elephant represents the mother of all animals and the largest animal in the country. Eni claims that without elephants nature will no longer exist.

The sculpture received a lot of public attention due to its shape, size and color. The sculpture was made of concrete and was supported inside by iron and steel. The elephant, whose skin color consisted of the tones of the earth colors, looked as if it had just emerged from a mud bath.

After the exhibition, the 20-ton sculpture was to be handed over to a sculpture park that was yet to be established. Since this was not created and no other use could be found, Eni destroyed the sculpture in a live performance on September 23, 2006.

Selected exhibitions / installations / performance activities 2013–2017

  • "Radiance of the image" - sculptures and pictures, Schwarzenbach an der Saale , Bavaria, Germany
  • "Haske Zanen" - sculptures, performance and new light painting art. Thought pyramid Galerie Abuja, and German Embassy Abuja Nigeria
  • “Art Merchant” - sculptures and pictures, Nigerian National Museum , Lagos, Nigeria          
  • Various lecturing activities in sculpture, installation, audiovisual performance and literature
  • "Blattgeist-Totem" - 7 m high wooden sculpture Sculptor Symposium Syke , Bremen (Douglas fir, terracotta, mirror glass, 2011)
  • " Blackman in European Kitchen ", ICD Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Berlin 
  • "Ear as a long road" - poetic performance, Berlin, Poetry Festival Lyricline
  • “Conscience and Borders” Installation “Israel and Palestine” and knowledge is power - SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin  
  • Exhibition / performance Israel and Palestine “Battlefields” on the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Minden , Minden
  • “Black History Month” - Africa Reflection - Sculptures and Pictures, Amerika Haus , Berlin
  • "2nd African Legend Performance" poetic musical dance performance, Amerika Haus, Berlin
  • ARESUVA 1. - African Regional Visual Arts Summit, Opening, Abuja, Nigeria
  • Guest lecturer in sculpture and new media / performance, Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee , Berlin, Germany
  • “Africanize” installation - Grassimuseum , Saxon Ethnographic Collections , Leipzig
  • “Africanize” installation KUNSTBANKEN Museum Hamar , Norway
  • “Blackman in European Kitchen” - installation / performance, Goethe-Institut , Lagos, Nigeria
  • “CharacterLAGOStika”, Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria 
  • “Death of the curator” installation / performance, documenta 12 , Kassel, Germany
  • “CrossCulture” installation / performance - Goethe-Institut , Dakar, Senegal
  • Publication of "Death of the curator" drama. ENI Publishers Berlin
  • Group exhibition "Black Paris" African position of contemporary art in the diaspora. Paris, France and Iwalewahaus , Bayreuth, Germany
  • “Blackman in European kitchen” - Performance Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth
  • “Israel and Palestine” installation / performance Dakart '06 Biennale contemporary art, Dakar Senegal
  • “Junking of the Elephant” - smashing the 20-ton elephant sculpture in front of an audience as a live intervention for ecology and nature
  • “Death of the curator”, installation / performance, Grassimuseum Leipzig, Saxon Ethnography Collection , Germany
  • Visiting Professor Sculpture - Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA
  • Publication “Maskuaradeundressing” (poems, short stories, stories), CPN publishers England 
  • “Water Burns” - exhibition / installation about the use of water in the new millennium, Vienna, Austria - gallery
  • "History of love" - ​​sculpture and painting gallery in the Prater , Berlin
  • Making of “Elephant” (20 tons monument for nature) and “Leaf” (7 meter high monument for nature), reinforced concrete
  • “Characteristics of living things”, Park des Colombischlössle , Freiburg im Breisgau
  • "Parts of Clay" - Center Monroe for the Arts, Hoboken , New Jersey, USA
  • "Clear Walls" - Lisa Parker Fine Art New York, USA
  • "Parables" - Nigerian National Museum , Lagos, Nigeria
  • "Creation Story" - Albertus Magnus House, Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Drawing School, University of Lagos , Nigeria

literature

  • Emmanuel Eni: Death of the curator . Berlin 2007.
  • Emmanuel Eni: elephants and new - light paintings (exhibition from August 19 to October 9, 2011, Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Ed .: Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Kulturamt. Project collaborators: Anja Braun, Stefan Martinkat)
  • Emmanuel Eni: the Art of Blackman in European kitchen . 2017.

Web links

Commons : Emmanuel Eni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dak'Art Biennial of African Contemporary Art: 2006 Recollections 2 . In: kimaniwawanjiru of June 15, 2011. Accessed July 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Elephant makes the mosquito . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . September 23, 2006, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 20, 2018]).
  3. ↑ HASKE ZANEN: ENI'S ART OF LIGHT AND REDISCOVERY . In: agwuenekwachiblog . July 24, 2016 ( wordpress.com [accessed August 20, 2018]).
  4. ^ Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig: Art installation Emmanuel Eni - "death of the curator". Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eni, Emmanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eni, Vita Emmanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Igbanke , Nigeria