Emmanuel Eni Explained

Emmanuel Eni AKA Blackman in European Kitchen (born 1967),[1] is a Nigerian-born German artist and poet. He is known as a painter, sculptor, multimedia artist, performance artist and poet. THE NATION Newspapers describes him as one of the world’s most outstanding contemporary artists. Recently, he was listed in Forbes as one of the most famous and popular artists in 2020. Eni, who is famous for his fearless, soul-searching, philosophical art is described as an iconoclast of uncommon proportion https://thenationonlineng.net/how-germany-based-nigerian-artist-turned-lockdown-to-creative-forge/.[2] [3] [4]

Biography

Emmanuel Eni was born in 1967 in Igbanke, Nigeria. He studied art at Igbobi College in Lagos; the Polytechnic University of Auchi; and at the University of Benin.

Internationally, Eni exhibited at the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, the Biennale in Dakar (Dak'Art)[1] and parallel at the documenta 12 in Kassel. He also works as a lecturer in private and public institutions.

He is the inventor and patent holder of New LightPaintings Art, the philosopher of the thesis of "contemporary barock art" - the union of all aspects of art. He is writer and performer of "Blackman in European Kitchen" and is also known as the "sculptor of elephants", and the Father of 100 Elephants.

Eni creates sculptures in bronze and terracotta. In recent times 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 land mammal. Eni claims that without elephants, nature will no longer exist. The sculpture monument received a lot of public attention because of its shape, great size and weight of 20 tons and its color. The sculpture was made of re-enforced concrete. The elephant of the colour of earth tones, like 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 monument in front of live performance of 3000 people. As an ecological statement on the dangers and threat of extinction of the animal nature. The performance intervention he titled "Junking of the Elephant" took place on September 23, 2006.

Exhibitions

"Hope of Love" paintings and sculptures Germany, "THE BOOM" exhibition of new light painting art and sculptures

Bibliography

"Kindonkind"- Poetry anthology. 321 pages of 600 poems published in Germany 2021

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eni, Emmanuel . VIAF.
  2. Web site: 2020-11-29 . Why people call me Senior Artvocate from Nigeria, by Eni . 2023-02-10 . The Guardian Nigeria News . en-US.
  3. Web site: Emmanuel Eni returns, renew in Yusuf Grillo Gallery News Ghana.
  4. Web site: Okuyeme . Tony . 2022-09-14 . The arts, vital tool that shapes a nation – Eni . 2023-02-10 . New Telegraph . en-US.
  5. Web site: Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig: Kunstinstallation Emmanuel Eni - "death of the curator". 2018-08-20. de. 2018-07-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20180707123340/https://grassi-voelkerkunde.skd.museum/ausstellungen/archiv/kunstinstallation-emmanuel-eni-death-of-the-curator/. dead.

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