3 Fresh Stuff from Uganada

 

Who has room for a painting that is 210X190 cm in size? Luckily that is why the common folks can buy art magazines and tear out its pages to plaster those works in mini on toilet walls. This here very enjoyable one is by Ugandian/ Ugandan? artist Ian Mwesiga (*1988) and is called "Bright Future" (2020). I love it! The colors and the different activities each character here is engaged in. We recognize Nelson Mandela on the tv screen, but not anyone else, I'm afraid. The dude with the bow tie is looking at a Black and White brochure, and I wonder what's that about. The landscape outside is that a broken city or just a large one? Why is only the label man in his Gap shirt drinking wine? And how come the young woman is looking at us? Whose apartment is this? Why is a person cleaning while the others are chilling? Who are the men on the wal?  The original work does not have a red flag in the middle of the curtain btw. Googling him, I have to say that his paintings are very much eye candy. They are direct, with great colors and craftmanship, and each having interesting set ups. We need to see much more of such artists in museums instead of the same old white men in golden frames, so tired of those. Yes I can now say openly : I am tired of all that impressionist crap.