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Summer in the Sahel Print

Richard Ketley

South Africa

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Part of the "Anthills of the Savannah" series based on the novel by Chinua Achebe about an imagined corrupt West African State, this piece addresses our notion of the Sahel as perpetual desert as portrayed in the media. These large pieces are intended as wall hangings and are made of an old truck ta...

Year Created:

2021

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Print, Giclee on Acrylic

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Open Edition

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10 W x 10 H x 0.25 D in

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Yes

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Not Applicable

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Ships in a Box

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Printing facility in California.

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At the moment I am interested in formal elements of painting and drawing inspired by the world around me and the many countries I visit, and in finding meaning where others do not - in the fall of light on a sandy building in Riyadh, the chaos of the shacks of Kampala, the crowded taxi parks of Johannesburg. My art is a search for perfection that is not often found in life. I am fortunate enough to travel widely in the Middle East and Africa, but I have not found my Tahiti - a landscape populated with many Venuses and primary colours, instead I find landscape covered in sandy construction sites, tin roofed shacks, humanity sweating as trucks our loaded with voluminous bundles. But within these spaces there is balance and form and structure - all elements that are abstracted in my paintings.

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