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The painting explores the effects of globalization on Africa and how the world has become a global village with the movement of people across geographic and cultural borders. Foreign cultures have also been transported through diverse modes and have become homogenized into African traditions and cultures thus impacting on national and individual identities.
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 […]
Read moreThe painting explores the effects of globalization on Africa and how the world has become a global village with the movement of people across geographic and cultural borders. Foreign cultures have also been transported through diverse modes and have become homogenized into African traditions and cultures thus impacting on national and individual identities.