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Art's Own Kind - Afrobeat and the Art of Lemi Ghariokwu
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8 June, 2009
Name of Event:
Art's Own Kind - Afrobeat and the Art of Lemi Ghariokwu
Posted by:
Rich Mix
Location:
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Date:
8 Jun 09 - 6 Jul 09
Description:
Mon 8 June – Mon 6 July / Exhibition Launch Tues 9 June, 7.30pm
Q&A with Lemi Ghariokwu & guests / Wed 10 June / 1pm / FREE
Café and Mezzanine / All day / FREE
Click here to check out the exhibit's blog: http://artsownkind.wordpress.com/

For twenty years, renowned artist Lemi Ghariokwu’s colourful paintings were found wrapped around the music of Nigeria’s most charismatic and notorious musician, Fela Kuti. Lemi’s distinctive images of Africa – angry, sexy, cheeky, righteous – were known and owned by hundreds of thousands of people across three continents.

This new exhibition brings together the best of Lemi’s work and reveals how creative and repressive movements in 1970’s Lagos helped give birth to the Afrobeat phenomenon.

More details on the launch and Q&A on our website.

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