MAGICAL WORLD OF ARTIST MICHAEL ARMITAGE

The Magical World of MICHAEL ARMITAGE
EXHIBITION review at White Cube

21 September – 30 October 2022
White Cube Bermondsey
@michael_armitage_studio
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This is a short review of Michael Armitage’s exhibition ‘Amongst the Living’, an exhibition of works by Michael Armitage alongside sculptures by Seyni Awa Camara.

I enjoy his wacky magical sublime world that he paints which jives well with Seyni’s sculptures. A full length video of his work is coming soon

White cube statement:
Set within East Africa, Armitage weaves narratives drawn from literature, film, politics, history and myth. The subjects for these new paintings are drawn from a wide range of sources, reimagined with a sensibility that might be likened to magic realism. Whether painted outdoors in Kenya or in Armitage’s London studio, his landscape, or urban vistas, collide timescales – compressing past and present, the real and imagined. Multiple viewpoints, superimpositions of outlines and figures, saturated and vaporous swathes of vivid colour and passages of translucent wash create a dense pictorial language in which materiality and form effortlessly meld, where subject and subtext have equal status and thematic power.
Painting with oil on Lubugo, a cloth made from fig tree bark from Uganda that is traditionally used in ceremonial burial rituals.

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