Art to see and collect this holiday
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Nairobi - the centre of East Africa s thriving arts scene
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Michael Armitage And The Power Of Art - Royal Academy
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Armitage paints on a grand scale, with a confidence that is justified. He is funny and disturbing, ironic and humane. Heâs got an outrageous ability to tease the onlooker. Once youâve got past his underwear-modelling chimp, get a load of the baboon posing in the traditional manner of a reclining nude, gracefully spread out with a bunch of bananas in a pose worthy of Ingres or Titian.
Itâs a joke that hits at the heart of the European oil painting tradition Armitage richly reinvents for his own purposes. Born in Nairobi in 1984, and working both there and in London, where he trained, Armitage parodies how European art has represented other places and peoples. His ânudeâ baboon calmly posing in a rainforest bower is a