Olamide Ogunade's paintings warm the hearts of art lovers to red. His
works are, on the one hand, dreamlike, subtle snapshots that speak of the
beauty and transience of the world, and on the other, powerful,
incandescent stories about status symbols, material obsessions and
collective sentiments.
Let's take Stendhal's word for it that 200 years ago, the only mirror walking along the
highway and reflecting the reality around was the novel. Today, there are many more such
creative mirrors giving insight into what is hot, sought-after, marked by the greatest, not
only positive, emotions in the surrounding world. Figuration in visual arts holds strong, and
- where the presentation of the surrounding world is combined with a very original
language, fashionable references to the history of art, including academism, and
everything is presented beautifully, intelligently and inscribed in the new, equal canon of
voices of art. Such an exceptional mirror portraying times and customs is the painting of the
Nigerian artist Olamide Ogunade.
