
Helene Love-Allotey
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The present lot is an excellent example of Enwonwu's ability to express movement in his dance-themed paintings and sculptures. As Sylvester Ogbechie writes "In his paintings, he had tried to capture this essence [of Dance] by tracking the body in its motions through space, using fractal surfaces and many figures to convey the idea of vigorous movement, which carried the eye in quick jumps to multiple points of focus."
Bibliography
S. Ogbechie, Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist, (Durham, 2008).