Painting titled "Stains of my herita…" by Aluu Prosper, Original Artwork, Acrylic

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Stains of my heritage (2023) Painting by Aluu Prosper

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Acrylic on Canvas, 36x24 in

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Dimensions Height 36in, Width 24in
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Categories Paintings under $5,000 Conceptual Art

Abfillage is an intricate technique and a body of works by Prosper Aluu which began in the mid 2022.
The term "Abfillage" can be seen as a portmanteau of "Abstract", "figure" and "collage" which refers to an exquisitely made artwork that involves the painting of a figure on a newspaper or magazine collage on canvas or paper that has been decorated with colors. These figures are mostly painted with some or all of the attires neglected.
The purpose of Abfillage is mostly to preserve the written stories or actions of the present in the artwork and sometimes highlight it's effects and actions in figurative forms.
The beautiful application of colors on the texts is intended to mollify some of the negative stories and happenings within.
He believes, inorder to preserve culture, he must continue to create it hence the process.
Mercurial Abfillage figuratively describes the psychological effects of bad governance, political, social and economic instability on the mental state of the people dwelling in the geographical region.
It explores themes of anxiety, depression, self-hate, self-harm and other mental and physical states reflected in these powerful works.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Acrylic

Paint using traditional pigments mixed with synthetic resins.

Collages

Collage is an artistic creation technique that consists of making a plastic creation by combining elements of various kinds: more or less flat materials, such as printed oilcloth, painting or drawing, newspaper extracts with text and photos, paper paintings, documents, various objects of low relief, etc. When the creation incorporates elements in relief, one can also speak of assemblage. This also includes glued papers, which employ a variety of papers, including newspaper, and drawing techniques.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Aluu Prosper

Nigeria

Aluu Prosper is a contemporary Nigerian painter. His usually stylized figures show the use of the artistic devices of elongation and exaggeration, as well as his unique style of[...]

Aluu Prosper is a contemporary Nigerian painter. His usually stylized figures show the use of the artistic devices of elongation and exaggeration, as well as his unique style of painting the iconic afro hairstyle. These are his ways of celebrating and negotiating African identity. In traditional African art visual codes, the exaggeration of the head in comparison to other parts of the body is a well-known visual strategy to establish the head as the seat of wisdom and intellectual prowess according to the beliefs in parts of Africa. Prosper plays with the size, forms and presentation of the head of the figures in his paintings as a visual pun to challenge what he considers a one-sided narrative about the size of the head in traditional African art. His style of painting rich afro hairstyle and golden crowns on the heads of his figures are meant to ennoble and dignify the subjects in his work.

Prosper's work does not aim to rehearse the negative stereotypes in African people's relationship with other races; instead, he strives to look beyond negative experiences by painting luscious images of the African people resplendent in beautiful apparel and striking pieces of diadem. By using Nigerian newspapers in his works, he tells stories of the past by preserving stories of the present. While he focuses on black identity, with this he believes that in order to preserve culture, he must continue to create it. Aluu Prosper exhibited his works in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa.