Tuesday 12 March 2024

Translucent S.I. Communication


ABOUT US

WHAT WE DO

Translucent Services Incorporation Communication (T S I), is a Lagos, Nigeria-based Media Relation agency and Art Advisory company. Translucent S I is founded as a publicity and art/culture management company for corporate and individual clienteles.

MEDIA MANAGEMENT: We build corporate brand(s) with strategic marketing communication skill via the mass media, by using leading newspapers, magazines, journals, Radio, TV and online outlets.

 ART/CULTURE ADVISORY: We consult for art collectors to ensure that their collection have the timelessness to sustain investment drive and passion. With our experience in tracking the African art market, in Nigeria and Europe, we are capable of guiding collectors to make the right choice and at the right timing.

CREATIVE INDUSTRY: We offer publicity advisory as well as design and execute Media Plan for art galleries, museums, cinemas, TV, Music, Theatre, Art events and Literary projects.            

OUR REACH: Although based in Lagos, Nigeria, Translucent S.I. has the strength to reach targets across West Africa and beyond. We offer publicity service to all sectors, across art/culture economy and other non-creative sectors.              

OUR SPREAD: Translucent S. I. also conceptualizes and organises arts/culture as well as tourism-related events for corporate and individual clienteles. Such areas of focus include Visual Arts, Design, Book publishing, Film, Music, TV and Radio, among others.

Sunday 10 March 2024

How Orimolade created thematic waves with '4939', 'Lagos Biennale'


IN the art hub of Lagos Island, where a major solo exhibition and biennial, held within 3.5 kilometres distance apart, it was a rare double for one artist. 

Thursday 7 March 2024

From Casablanca Art School '...Postcolonial Avant-Garde 1962–1987' opens in Sharjah

'Untitled', dated 1977, by Mohammed Chabãa.

AFTER its acclaimed showing at Tate St Ives, organised in partnership with Sharjah Art Foundation, Casablanca Art School: Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde 1962–1987, the first major museum exhibition of works of the School, has now opened in Sharjah and will be on view until 16 June 2024. 

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Process, documentation for 3D artistry of 'Sculptors Odyssey' at AMIAF 2024

Yusuf Durodola, curator of AMIAF 2024.

THEMED 'Sculptors Odyssey', the 2024 edition of Artmiabo International Art Festival (AMIAF) has been described as an exhibition showcasing processes, documentation, and  presentations of masterpieces sculptures. Again, as it was in its previous two editions, AMIAF 2024 will be showcasing artists from Africa and other parts of the world. 

Saturday 24 February 2024

From bronze casting ancestry, Omodamwen's Beyond Mimesis, brings fresh sculpture

'Trance' (bronze, H60, W24 D60cm, dated 2023), by Kelly Omodamwen.

OVER six years after sculptor, Kelly Omodamwen synergised spark plugs and art, he is exhibiting the importance of history through his contemporary style, technique and theme, built on the background of Benin bronze ancestry.

Monday 19 February 2024

Celebrating traditional, modern carving of Adebayo at ArtMiabo

Adebisi Adebayo.

THE 2024 edition of ArtMiabo International Art Festival (AMIAF) has listed sculptor, Adebisi Adebayo, among the exhibiting artists and special recognition awardees.

Friday 9 February 2024

For Balogun, Sculptor's Odyssey Award of ArtMiabo 'apt, timely'

Dr Adeola Balogun.

THE 2024 edition of ArtMiabo International Art Festival (AMIAF), themed Sculptor's Odyssey seemed to be gathering more steam as a unique exhibition of medium-specific event. One of the exhibiting artists and awardees, Dr Adeola Balogun spoke about the importance of Award dedicated to sculpture, among other related-factors concerning sculptors.

Wednesday 7 February 2024

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February-March 2024

Kelly Omodamwen’s solo art exhibition titled Beyond Mimesis, which showed from February 24-March 3, 2024, at Signature Beyond Art Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos got reviews from our media partners in leading Nigerian newspapers.

Vanguard Omodamwen's fresh bronze captures contemporary sculpture

Sun: Omodamwen's Beyond Mimesis' unfurls fresh sculpture 

A-ARTs: From Benin bronze ancestry, Omodamwen brings fresh sculpture


Friday 2 February 2024

'Cloning artists' with AI possible, Sculptor's Odyssey awardee, Waritimi predicts

Pius Waritimi.

PIUS Waritimi is showing at ArtMiabo International Art Festival (AMIAF) 2024, a gathering of sculpture-specific medium, which also celebrates select artists with awards. As one of the awardees, Waritimi, a sculptor and academic professional noted that the fear of AI producing artworks should be less of concern to artists. But the real danger ahead, he argued, is the fear of tech cloning artists.

Thursday 1 February 2024

Brooklyn Museum celebrates 200th anniversary


WITH a yearlong celebration, Brooklyn Museum kicks off its 200th anniversary in October 2024, honoring the museum’s legacy and looking toward the future.

Tuesday 30 January 2024

Legacy of Timothy Adebanjo Fasuyi (1936-2024), as modernist, educationist


Timothy Adebanjo Fasuyi.

AS one of Nigeria's modern masters, Timothy Adebanjo Fasuyi, also known as TAFAS, combined his career as an artist with being a great education administrator. He has been credited with establishing quite a number of institutions of creative and non-culture facilities of government origin.    Fasuyi, a native of Isona, Osun State, served as Federal Art Adviser. He retired from the Ministry of Education on his 50th birthday. 

One of his children, Akin Fasuyi announced the death of the modernist on January 27, 2024. "The Enigmatic Artist and Educationist Tafas (T.A. FASUYI) went to repose in the Lord early this morning," Akin disclosed. "He was due to be 89 in a few months' time." 

Fasuyi was admitted to study Fine Art at Nigerian College of  Arts, Science and Technology (now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria) in 1954. His first employment as an art teacher was at St. John’s Teacher’s College, Owo in Ondo State, where he taught for 14 months before his appointment as art education officer at the prestigious Kings College, Lagos. 

A pioneer member of the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA), he served as the first secretary, with Yusuf Grillo as president then. He represented the Federal Ministry of Education at interview panels for new entrants into the Federal Service Commission to Canada and the United States, visiting 10 cities in both countries to recruit new officers. He also established the National Children’s Art Exhibition as part of the National Festival of Art and Culture, which rotated among the state capitals. He was the first Nigerian member of International Association of Artists (IAA), based in Paris, and later elected vice president. To his credit, he ensured that the SNA had affiliation to the IAA.

Fasuyi is also credited with the establishment of the National Council for Art and Culture (NCAC), with state branches by merging the Northern Art Group, under Maitama Sule, with the Southern Art and Human Society, under Kola Balogun. 

Although an artist, Fasuyi had a long career in the education sector, where he was also an administrator. For example, it has been established that he spent the last six years of his career at the Federal Ministry of Education to improve Federal Government Colleges nationwide. As an educationist, Fasuyi ensured that art endured as every Federal Government School, to have at least, one art teacher.

In a tribute, one of Fasuyi's colleagues, master printmaker, Dr Bruce Onobrakpeya recalled that the late modernist, a founding father of the SNA, left a strong legacy. "His role in nurturing the SNA was pivotal, fostering a community where artists could collaborate and flourish," Onobrakpeya noted. "His leadership was not just administrative; it was inspirational, empowering artists to explore and express, shaping a vibrant artistic culture in Nigeria."

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In 2017, National Gallery of Art (NGA) celebrated Fasuyi's 80th birthday. At Fasuyi’s 82nd birthday the then Director-General, Abdullahi Muku disclosed that government was going to start documentation of artists in a book form, using the celebrant as a flag off point. “NGA has captured Fasuyi (Tafas) in over 200 pages. We have quite a lot of artists on the waiting list to document, as part of the NGA’s many projects for artists.”

Wednesday 3 January 2024

Hybridised textures of Koko's 'Water Me' explore 'womanism, bodypositivity'


'Ive (Beauty), glazed ceramic, 9 x 8 inches, dated 2023, by Fiyin Koko.

WITH nearly ten group art exhibitions, between 2020 and currently, Fiyin Koko represents the fresh energies of artists driving the emergence of new phase of art in Lagos. Armed with potentials across painting and sculpture, Koko is on self-discovery to be counted among the new generation of artists whose works make bold statements in critical and commercial appreciation spaces.