Life III by Peterson Kamwathi

Artwork Description

 

Original title of the artwork: Life III

Peterson Kamwathi belongs to a generation of young East African artists that break with the traditional art canon.

Peterson’s highly codified, symbolic, conceptual works, whose content and concepts go far beyond local relevance, distance themselves from the usual patterns of reception of figurative art from Kenya. Rendered in thick layers of charcoal, pastel, water color and collage, Peterson’s figures are anonymous, static, almost abstract, a physical presence powerfully pushed to the forefront of the picture plane and the viewer’s attention by dense backgrounds devoid of vanishing points.

His practice, fostering the idea of art as a process-based and time-based project, often creates encapsulated visual archives by exploring contemporary themes in series and in layers, each group of works exploring social, political, personal and institutional structures symbolized through the depiction of the human figure. Each work is part of a series, thematically intertwined whilst individually delving deeper into the concept that informs the group.


Artwork details

  • Artwork year 2011
  • Artwork dimensions 152,00 (H) x 183,00 (W) cm /
    59,84 (H) x 72,05 (W) inch
  • Artwork style Contemporary Art
  • Artwork technique Mixed media
  • Additional info

    Charcoal, pastel, paper

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