OSINACHI EXHIBITION @ KVG FEATURED ON Brittle Paper
February 18th, 2020
The Nigerian visual artist and writer Osinachi is set for his debut solo show. Themed “Osinachi: Existence as Protest”, it aims to provoke critical thinking while challenging preconceived norms. In his usual distinct style, Osinachi uses colorful art to offer an alternative interpretation to literature, politics, and ordinary living. The show will be held at the Kate Vass Galerie in Zürich, Switzerland, in March 2020, and will feature limited edition prints and NFTs.
Osinachi, who is noted as Africa’s foremost cryptoartist, is especially remarkable for his use of Microsoft Word—rather than art applications—to create art. Some of his pieces appear in the Art Naija Series anthologies—Enter Naija: The Book of Places (2016) and Work Naija: The Book of Vocations (2017)—as well as in 14’s anthologies—We Are Flowers (2017) and The Inward Gaze (2018)—the last of which had its cover designed by him. We previously covered his work, when he was still making the switch from literature to visual art. He is an editor at 14 and at 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. He is the first Nigerian to showcase artworks at the Ethereal Summit, a conference in New York that seeks to bridge the gap between technology and art through blockchain.
Osinachi