Adébayo Bolaji : In Praise of Beauty

Name: Adébayo Bolaji : In Praise of Beauty
Start: 2024-09-20T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-20T18:00:00+01:00
Location: 16 Narrow Quay, BS1 4QA Bristol, United Kingdom

Schedule

Fri Sep 20 2024 at 11:00 am to 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

16 Narrow Quay, BS1 4QA Bristol, United Kingdom | Bristol, EN

Arnolfini welcome you into the kaleidoscopic and multidisciplinary world of Adébayo Bolaji, whose solo exhibition In Praise of Beauty takes over the first-floor galleries, exploring and questioning notions of beauty through painting, sculpture, film and writing.
Based upon a new body of work (commissioned by New Art Exchange) In Praise of Beauty includes the monumental works in acrylic and oil pastel The Vessel (2024) and No Beauty Without Struggle (2024), mixed-media series I Love you (2024), drawings, and mythological-inspired sculpture with The Head of Medusa (2024). Showing alongside is A Notebook on the Voice (2023), a film which Bolaji describes as ‘a scrap-book, exploring ideas on what it can mean to have a voice, to use it, or to have it used…’
For its reimagining at Arnolfini, Bolaji has added a small number of new paintings and collaged works, developed this year as part of his ongoing philosophical enquiry into ideas of beauty.
In Praise of Beauty is accompanied by a programme engagement activities and events.
Image: Adébayo Bolaji No Beauty Without Struggle 2024. Acrylic and oil pastel on cotton. 400 x 230 cm. Courtesy of Bolaji Studio.
ID: A large rectangular colorful art work by Adébayo Bolaji. Created with acrylic and oil pastels on cotton, it is a variety of abstract patterns in greens, reds, blues, reds, yellows and pinks. Faces and hands feature throughout.