#Makemba Kunle

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Sexypink 2012 review ~ Brianna McCarthy (T&T) Mario Benjamin (HAITI) Shalini Seereeram, Makemba Kunle, (T&T) Sheena Rose (BARBADOS) Peter Sheppard (T&T) GAKS (T&T) Public Art book, Richard Acosta (T&T)

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Makemba Kunle's 'Gathering Storm' August 7-21 - Trinidad Guardian http://dlvr.it/S3yBK3

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TUNE IN to the Speak Your Truth Show, 4-6pm (uk time), Saturday 6 November, when I will be in conversation with my majestic, multi - talented Brotha Jason Hospedales, artist, sculptor, composer, musician & art teacher, live from POS, Trinidad. Over the last twenty (20) years, he has worked tirelessly to craft, digest & integrate the spectrum of his historical, cultural & memorial heritage. Brotha Jason integrates his artistic practices & utilizes the ancestors’ potent voices within his DNA to lead him to record & exhibit his perceptions about life & memory in T n T, including African experiences of the Middle Passage. The African woman takes centre stage in his work as Brotha Jason honours and reflects her innate beauty, strength, power, sensuality and motherhood. Her titles of African queen, princess and worshipped divinity are highlighted in his work. His vision meshes with that of his elders: LeRoy Clarke and Makemba Kunle who have painted dramatic African female figures in a new paradigm of canonizing the African female figure. Brotha Jason’s colourful and multi-layered art pieces in his recent solo exhibition Ge­net­ic Re­call, an ex­hi­bi­tion, were created using various techniques to portray his positive feelings of light, love and hope. The themes presented in this work vary from his personal expressions of human figures to philosophical and esoteric concepts used to explore and inspire.   Engaging Conversation Eclectic Music A Pan Afrikan Perspective    We love to hear from you so give us a call, WhatsApp or text us on +44730 541 7668 or leave your comments in the comment box.    http://www.feferitylondon.co.uk/feferity-radio/   https://m.mixcloud.com/Feferityradio/   Download Feferityradio App on iPhone https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/feferity-radio-app/id1574339890   On android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ibitway.feferity #art #visualartists #sculpture #artexhibition #artteacher #composer #musician #africandrumming #afrikanspirituality #trinidadandtobago #trinidadartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CVyp_H9o8QS/?utm_medium=tumblr

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~Sexypink~ Birthday greetings and blessings to Makemba Kunle, our Co-Founder and esteemed Master Artist, on achieving a great milestone, 70 years on this earth. We hope you enjoy your special day and thank you for always being a pillar of strength, creativity and wisdom to all of us.

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~Sexypink~ A lovely read.

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Makemba Kunle to exhibit at Arnim's Gallery - TT Newsday http://dlvr.it/S54MG2

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Studio 66 will on November 18th, launch the 10th solo exhibition of its founder Makemba Kunle. Titled "Jouvay Lasssupper". This new body of work brings in to focus the ideals of longings, the visions and sightings, the celebrations and rituals to which the artist bears testimony in 75 works of varying sizes, shapes and media all executed between 2010 and 2012

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Marsha Pearce. Kunle Carnival Method

Text Size: Restoration of Atlantis by Makemba Kunle, framed in plastic bottles. Photo: Marsha Pearce Makemba Kunle’s tenth solo exhibition of oil paintings, entitled Jouvay Lassuppa, opened on November 18 at the Studio 66 Art Gallery, 66 Sixth Street, Barataria. Kunle explains that the title comes from a vision a friend shared with him. “My friend, who was somewhere in Europe, had a vision in which the heavens opened and there were people having a big dinner dressed in costume, in the sky. I tried to paint that and it turned out to be a J’Ouvert band. So I called that painting and the exhibition Jouvay Lassuppa. I localised and creolised the vision by changing the spelling of the words ‘last supper’,” says Kunle who sees the title piece of the show as “setting a tone of revelling in the here and now.”   Kunle’s paintings are a revelry of colour and marks—dots and dashes among other strokes—which demand that the viewer step back and forth, observing each piece both from a distance and up close in order to discern individual figures or elements. Each piece appears to be one giant form with no one part being seemingly distinct, emphasised or separated from other parts of the painting.   Everything appears to flow freely together and connect with each other. The viewer must look intently to discover features that the artist has incorporated into the work. Kunle attributes this aesthetic of freedom and connectivity to what he calls a “Carnival method” of painting: “A Carnival method,” says Kunle, “is painting with a certain level of freedom, which I feel we get in Carnival. I am not talking about the superficial Carnival. Not the ‘Carnival is colour’. Not the jump-up but the free-up. Carnival is where we get closest to freedom.    “Carnival is where you can find yourself whether European, African, East Indian, Chinese or whatever. In Carnival we are all connected. We tend to see things as distinct from each other but in truth and in fact all of us are one. That is the Carnival I am talking about. Therefore images within my paintings are connected and all of the paintings are connected to each other.”   Kunle confounds the viewer’s capacity for easy spatial perception by playing with positive and negative spaces in each painting. Positive space is the image or the subject that is intended as the focus of the artwork while negative space is that space around what the artists wants us to see. Kunle masterfully manipulates these two spaces so that the viewer’s eyes are not quite sure where to look. “That is where I dwell,” Kunle observes, “in between those two spaces like the calypsonian with double entendre.”   His exhibition offers us a presentation in which we become not only situated in a location between positive and negative spaces but we also find ourselves in a J’Ouvert space of liberty and unity—that bewitching space between night and daybreak—where it is possible to be one with each other and have a union with the spirit realm.   In a number of Kunle’s paintings a female spirit, who the artist refers to as “joy,” becomes perceptible if we look closely. In the J’Ouvert space that his work creates, we can connect with that spirit and revel in her energy. Other elements of J’Ouvert can be found in this exhibition. “J’Ouvert involves taking what you have, recycling and making a costume,” Kunle explains.    In the display of his work, paintings are framed with yellow rope and a number of pieces are set against walls made of wire and old plastic bottles. “This is our nation’s 50th anniversary of independence and still we are allowing Europe and North America to tell us what is fine art and that we must frame it in a certain way, Kunle insists.   Kunle’s body of work and its display offer us an opportunity to witness a freedom of the imagination but even in that freedom there is a careful attention to precision. His  paintings do not present a haphazard and chaotic execution of brushstrokes and the creative formats chosen for exhibiting the work are not random. Everything, including the tiniest dot of paint, has been done with much thought for Kunle acknowledges that “even in freedom there is a discipline.”    The exhibition Kunle’s exhibition Jouvay Lassuppa runs until December 9 at the Studio 66 Art Gallery, which is open daily from 10 am-6 pm. For further information, call 361-9375. Arts Previous Article Photographer Alex Smailes at workNext Article Warner: Ramesh misled me

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The Artist Makemba Kunle (C) Image  http://www.macomag.com/featured_articlesv10i4_b.html

With a career that has spanned over two decades, Makemba has not only created outstanding works of fine art, he has also made it his duty to create avenues of opportunity for generations of young artists to come.

Among some of his more notable achievements in art administration and education have been: the formation of the Caribbean Arts Community and the Studio 66 Art support Community. Under Makemba's artistic direction, both these institutions have become bastions of support and development for artists her at home and throughout the region. He has also developed educational and training programmes geared specifically for young artists in this country. Makemba has also represented Trinidad and Tobago as both administrator and artist at a number of international symposia. Makemba, the artist, first showed his work in 1973 at the Art Society's Annual Exhibition. Since then, he has exhibited on innumerable occasions in solo and collaborative projects throughout the country and internationally. In 1996 he was instrumental in the organization and staging of the historic "The Last Warrior" at the Pamberi Panyard. Makemba's paintings and poetry were also featured at this event.

Makemba Kunle (C)

Makemba has also been commissioned to execute portraits of personalities, which include Kathy Tyson, George Odlum, Tim Hector, and T.U. B. Butler. He has also brought his talents to a number of even more varied artistic endeavours such as stage and set design, costume design for Carnival and formal theatre: graphic illustrations and cover designs for books by some of the Caribbean's leading authors and storytellers. Makemba also wrote and illustrated two books of his own - "A Collection of Illustrated Short Stories" and " The Caterpillar who wanted to fly". Makemba continues to paint and teach at his workshop at the Studio 66 in Barataria..

Information:http://in2artltd.com/kunleM.html

Makemba Kunle (C)

The Gallery at Fine Art at the corner Rosalino and Warren Streets, Woodbrook, will host an exhibition of the recent works by local artist Makemba Kunle. The exhibit, which opens tomorrow, presents the artist’s latest series, Makemba 2009, which “represents a coming together of various approaches, directions and experiments undertaken over the last 40 years, this time with a concentration on draughtsmanship (pen and ink being a favored medium), and efficient resolution, if not dispatch, while still maintaining the spontaneity of the brush strokes for which he is known,” as the Trinidad Express site describes it.

Born at Old St Joseph Road in Laventille, on August 14th 1950, Kunle grew up in Barataria. A former St Mary’s College student, he was trained as a teacher at the Mausica Teachers Training College at Valsayn. Growing up in a community where the artistry of Trinidad carnival culture flourishes, his art was influenced by the power and magnificence of Trinidad carnival. As Kunle himself admitted, “I always had this feeling for art inside of me, so I taught myself everything I wanted to know about art.” Makemba found the ideal habitat for the development of his artistic perspective when he served as NJAC’s artistic director for over 20 years. Kunle has also contributed to the formation and administration of artistic institutions such as the Caribbean Arts Community and Studio 66 Art Support Community which is based at his Barataria home. He has also produced two books of his own entitled “A Collection of Illustrated Short Stories’ and ‘The Caterpillar Who Wanted to Fly’ He has also contributed to the wider national community by a number of initiatives, including his 1997 role as artist-in-residence at the Pamberi Pan Theatre in San Juan when he tutored youths in the theory and practice of artistic skills. He is now artist-in-residence at Studio 66 in Barataria and is currently preparing for his ninth solo exhibition to be showcased later this year.

Information:http://repeatingislands.com/2009/09/28/new-exhibit-by-trinidad-and-tobago-artist-makemba-kunle/

Makemba Kunle (C) Untitled