PAST EXHIBITION
ARTPOWHER Contemporary is pleased to announce its participation at VOLTA Basel 2022, staging the solo show CAN YOU DIVIDE THE SKY? by Ishita Chakraborty (b. 1989), an artist and poet born in West Bengal, India. Chakraborty's art installation conveys a poetic portrait of our coexistence and reflects on migration and identity.
VOLTA Basel Art Fair
, Booth B8
June 13- 19, 2022
Concurrent with Art Basel in Basel Week
www.voltaarfairs.com
Interview by VOLTA Art Fairs
Interview by VOLTA Art Fairs
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WATCH NOW: SHORT VIDEO PRESENTATION
Listen to Aline Alagem talking about her creative process and why she felt the need to create Blue Ripples.
Blue Ripples is a large scale painting made of four canvases attached together.
It’s oil and linen, and it was created in 2020 midst lockdown in Berlin, at a time where we are felt very claustrophobic and static.
— Aline Alagem
After another challenging year, we wish to express our appreciation and thank you for your trust and support.
ARTPOWHER was founded shortly before the pandemic. You have been part of the reason we have been able in continuing our dedication in promoting and presenting Womxn creatives with passion, despite the adversity of these times. We are excited and are looking forward in continuing shaping ARTPOWHER's future together with you in 2022.
ARTPOWHER wishes you a peaceful and joyous holiday season and a prosperous New Year! We will take a creative break starting December 24 and return January 10, 2022.
In the meantime, we invite you to discover unique art pieces added to our collection on Artsy, by Aline Alagem. We want to highlight the painting Blue Ripples, created in the midst of the first lockdown in 2020 — the artist’s response to the situation and Alagem's investigation of unlimited spaces and movements in her inner world. Alagem will present this work in a short video interview next month.
Sincerely,
Anna Maurrasse (she/her)
Founder & CEO
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Past Art Fair
ARTPOWHER Contemporary has staged its first in real life presentation I LOVE SHARING THE BED WITH YOU by SOLA OLULODE, in Volta Basel during Basel Art Week.
I am thrilled by the positive feedback we received on the show and on our publication. I hope we were able to transport an authentic art experience. I'm proud of Olulode's new artistic approach experimenting with new ways to unfold her voice - congratulations Sola Olulode!
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Read Essay by Pacheanne Anderson
Artsy Viewing Room Extended
Closing December 31, 2021
Order now: Sola Olulode - Limited Edition Catalogue
The exhibition ‘I Love Sharing The Bed With You’ is accompanied by a signed limited edition catalogue of Sola Olulode's new body of work, featuring an essay by Art Writer Pacheanne Anderson, and photographs of the artist in her studio by Luzie Zoe Lazarus.
Presenting British-Nigerian artist: SOLA OLULODE
September 20 - 26, 2021
Anna Maurrasse-Tomaiuolo, the Founder of ARTPOWHER Contemporary, is thrilled to announce the participation at VOLTA Basel 2021, staging the solo show ‘I LOVE SHARING THE BED WITH YOU’ by British-Nigerian artist Sola Olulode. This is the artists’s first exhibition in Switzerland and her first solo presentation outside of the UK.
Olulode is a London based artist who works across the medium of paint and textile influenced by Yoruba Adire textiles, an indigo-dyed fabric made in Nigeria by Yoruba women, using a variety of resist-dyeing techniques. The artist reinterprets images of majoritively Black Womxn expressed through diverse reflections of feminine energies, and inspired by her own identity as a queer Black woman.
For her first show in Switzerland and her first solo show outside of the UK, Olulode conceived over the last few months smaller works on paper and larger paintings on canvas, experimenting with new forms of presentation. READ FULL PRESS RELEASE
NEW PUBLICATION
The exhibiton is accompanied by a catalogue of Sola Olulode's new body of work, featuring an essay by Art Writer Pacheanne Anderson (he/they).
Concept & copyright: ARTPOWHER Contemporary, Anna Maurrasse
Photos: Luzie Zoe Lazarus
Design: Giò Black, LYOR
Artsy Viewing Room September 16 - October 1, 2021
Excerpt Volta Basel Press Release
Portrayals of Black Joy - February 2021
Sola's painting Laying in the Grass II has been selected for a digital billboard campaign "Portrayals of Black Joy" launched by Artsy in partnership with Outfront Media, spotlighting emerging Black artists in major cities in the US throughout the month of February. Courtesy of the Artist and ARPOWHER Contemporary! The campaing features also emerging Black artists - Derrick Adams, Dominic Chambers, and Kay Hickman.
