Lot 94: OLU AMODA (b.1959) SUNFLOWER 2011 Nails and steel

OLU AMODA (b.1959) SUNFLOWER 2011 Nails and steel belt 193 x 176 cm. (76 x 76 in.) Signed and dated (lower left) Olu Amoda is an internationally celebrated Nigerian sculptor, muralist, furniture designer, and multimedia artist whose iconic work using repurposed materials and metal expresses a very modern African sensibility. Artist's Statement My found-object works are intended that they ask questions or raise issues to which the artist does not proffer any solution. To catalyse the subjects of each work I draw on the history and place of the objects used within. Further tinkering with the form of the specific foundobjects completes an approach to making art reminiscent of childhood drawings on soil canvases.