Talk about film, music, painting or perhaps fashion but a discussion on African arts cannot be complete without an element of paintings and sculpture. "The art market in Nigeria remains rather unknown and I think that when we arrived we did not realize its importance. Wealthy Nigerian bankers and industrialists are now the main buyers of contemporary art regardless of its popularity. For a long time, the Nigerian art world operated in a vacuum, and collectors were known to acquire mostly paintings by Nigerian artists, figurative paintings, often very colorful. And there is an art market there?

Source: The North Africa Journal November 09, 2021 03:10 UTC