Emmanuel Eni (born 1967), is a Nigerian-born artist and poet. He works in various mediums including painting, sculpture, and performance art.
Emmanuel Eni (born 1967), is a Nigerian-born artist and poet. He works in various mediums including painting, sculpture, and performance art.
Eni is from Igbanke, in mid-west Nigeria. He received a degree from Igbobi-College in Lagos, Nigeria. In 1984 he graduated from the polytechnic Auchi in the same city. The University of Benin awarded him a BA in scultpure in 1991. Afterwards, he attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London where he received a degree in 1993. [1]
He is the inventor and patent holder of "New Light Paintings", the philosopher of the thesis of "Contemporary Baroque." [2] He is the writer and performer of "Black man in European Kitchen" [3] and is also known as the "sculptor of elephants," and the "Father of 100 Elephants." [4] [5] His drama Death of the Curator was performed at the Museum for Ethnography in Leipzig. [6]
He has repeatedly addressed the Israel-Palestine conflict in his works, as in the Dakar Biennale in 2006. [7]
Eni has had exhibitions at the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, France, the Biennale in Dakar (Dak'Art) Senegal, and parallel at the Documenta 12 in Kassel. [8] He holds lectures.
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