Basking in a recent recognition by Forbes magazine and the successes of his “Light Paintings”, Emmanuel Eni, from his base, in Germany muses about his art and life in these dire times. writes Okechukwu Uwaezuoke
“You cannot talk about life, without at the same time, talking about conflicts,” the man, who has integrated the moniker “Blackman in European kitchen” – the title of one of his early performance pieces – into his persona, resumes. He wants his listener to accept conflicts, pains, sicknesses, and death as the inexorable realities of earthly existence.
True, his many years of multimedia expressions may have earned him recognition as a painter, sculptor, performance artist, poet, and philosopher. But, they have also helped inveigle the “Contemporary Baroque” art concept into his viewers’ consciousness. He is, also, the creator of the Basic Metric Scale For Art Products , which he alluded to in his drama sketch, titled “Death of the Curator”.
“Even with the lockdown, people are still expected to go to work here in Germany, not only for essential services. They are expected to pay their rent, health insurance, water, light and all the thousand and one taxes. It is hard to make art with such a reality.
And what are these New Light Paintings? Even the artist’s allusion to “paintings [that] can light [up] the night and bring sight to the dark”, among other not-so-intelligible descriptions, leaves the listener none the wiser.
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