#Serge Alain Nitegeka

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Serge Alain Nitegeka   (b. 1983)

Morphings in BLACK, 2014 at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY

Site-specific installations created since 2008... Sourced from photographs taken by the artist, the paintings are aestheticized memories of past events, re-addressed and re-worked into a new and wholly autonomous form.

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Serge Alain Nitegeka at Marianne Boesky

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Serge Alain Nitegeka | Black Mass

executed 2016 paint on wood 122.0 × 122.0 cm

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Modern Art, Ancient Tradition, from Africa and the Diaspora

Modern Art, Ancient Tradition, from Africa and the Diaspora

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Serge Alain Nitegeka, Found Form V, 2017 Stevenson

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Serge Alain Nitegeka, b. Burundi, 1983

Untitled (Self Portrait) Untitled (Self Portrait) Cargo South Africa (2009) Charcoal, paint, wood [Source]

Architectural Digest says:

When Johannesburg-based artist Serge Alain Nitegeka was 11 years old, an ethnic civil war drove him and his family to flee their native Burundi for neighboring Rwanda, which in short order fell victim to the same fate. “Nothing is ever normal once you’re forced out of your home,” says Nitegeka, during a visit to his temporary Brooklyn studio. That he is still haunted by his harrowing years as a refugee is made acutely clear in his imposing ­installations—tangles of black wood planks resembling makeshift barriers that require viewers to duck under or step through them, palpably channeling the fear and uncertainty of border crossing.

While artists from Richard Serra to Anish Kapoor to Olafur Eliasson have long invited people to interact physically and sensorially with their monumental sculptures, few have endeavored to evoke such personal and specific emotional responses. Working through his own traumas, Nitegeka wants his creations, constructed extemporaneously on-site, to elicit a sense of insecurity and discomfort. “I make each look and feel as if it’s about to collapse,” he says. “Like a bunch of matchsticks.”

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Serge Alain Nitegeka at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Obstacle courses constructed from lengths of black wood are a recurring part of Johannesburg-based artist Serge Alain Nitegeka’s practice, forcing gallery visitors to reconsider their environment while ducking and bending through the gallery. Having lived and moved often as a refugee during his childhood, Nitegeka connects his own political experience with the gallery visitor’s spatial experience. (On view at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea through Feb 24th). Serge Alain Nitegeka, installation view at Marianne Boesky Gallery, January, 2018.

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Ode to Black by Serge Alain Nitegeka

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Serge Alain Nitegeka - Migrant: Studio study II (2020)

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Serge Alain Nitegeka (Rwandan, 1983), Ode to Black IV, 2017. Paint on wood, 244 × 172 cm.

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ochyming: Serge Alain Nitegeka Burundi, b. 1983 Colour &... https://ift.tt/2TtATrW

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Here is a full view of this week's #WhatIsItWednesday puzzle: Serge Alain Nitegeka's "BLACK SUBJECTS: Still II," 2014, on view in "We the People: New Art from the Collection." The experience of being in exile and seeking asylum is central to Nitegeka’s identity and artistic practice. In both his sculptures and paintings, Nitegeka prefers to use wood, which he associates with the shipping industry as well as "informal housing," or slums. [Serge Alain Nitegeka (Burundian, born 1983). "BLACK SUBJECTS: Still II," 2014. Triptych: paint and charcoal on wood, 96 1/16 x 144 15/16 inches (244 x 368.1 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of Mrs. George A. Forman, by exchange, 2014 (2014:29a-c). © Serge Alain Nitegeka] #albrightknox #art #museum #artmuseum #sergealainnitegeka #wethepeopleak http://bit.ly/2RiNVts

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Serge Alain Nitegeka | Black Mass IV

paint on wood 122.0 × 122.0 cm executed 2016

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SERGE ALAIN NITEGEKA Colour & Form XL, 2017

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Serge Alain Nitegeka (born 1983) works in painting and sculpture

https://www.artsy.net/artist/serge-alain-nitegeka

I Particularly like his work regarding identity as a refugee but he also works a lot in site specific exhibitions and in constantly evolving styles, from found objects and ready mades to detailed drawings and then again to geometric abstract colour blocks. Serge claims he is inspired by themes such as minimalism and abstraction but the political also underpins a lot of his work.