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Globalization is a recurrent theme in Madu’s work. Often exploring how foreign cultures, technology and the media have impacted heavily on the African population. The painting shows how digital evolution through the advent of the mobile phone in the early 1990’s has transformed social life and communication. Despite the complexities these technologies pose, there is […]
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John Madu
Lagos
John Madu is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose paintings and art pieces overlap between art and design. Through personal iconographic symbols with allegorical metaphors, texture, indigenous patterns and colours, his paintings instigate the development of new modes of critical practice. His most recent subject matter dwells along the lines of the effect of globalization and […]
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3ft X 4ft
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Globalization is a recurrent theme in Madu’s work. Often exploring how foreign cultures, technology and the media have impacted heavily on the African population. The painting shows how digital evolution through the advent of the mobile phone in the early 1990’s has transformed social life and communication. Despite the complexities these technologies pose, there is a growing reliance on the forms/modes for social networking, business transactions and other social, economic, cultural and political codes in our society.
