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_{by Bruce Onobrakpeya}

_{The direction for art sales in Nigeria seems to be pointing northwards as prices paid for works of art continue to fetch in millions of Naira a piece. A receding stock market maybe rearing its ugly head but that did not stop top collectors in the country from digging deep into their wallets.}

_{Is this because of the holiday season, a passing high or is it something that will be sustained in the future?} 

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_{Desert Close up By Maria Onyegbule}

Call for Artists

_{The Kumasi Curio Kiosks Project is a project session of “The Kumasi Symposium: Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art”. The arts-based social experiment is designed to provide a context that will stimulate the artist, scholar and activist participants to place themselves and their practice into question and possibly resolutions through collaboration and cultural/artistic interchange.}

<sub>Projected development

“All the sculptures and the frames are plain white or bleached out - as it were, evoking the sense of absence or reconstruction, perhaps simplicity, neutrality or restraint and vagueness or simply incompleteness of the work itself.”</sub> 

_{This is the kind of reaction that South African Artist, Marco Cianfanelli seems to inspire. The son of printers, who grew up in an industrial area and who is himself working out in an industrial area in Johannesburg, he has been described as an artist who “romanticizes space and its inverse”. The intensity that Cianfanelli inspires is not incidental but forms some coherence, at any rate, of the excitement his works bring to the art world and that power which does not leave his audience untouched. Read more here by Caroline Kaminju}