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Agbokou, Félix Nyakpogbé  

Togolese, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 12 February 1977, in Lomé.

Painter (mixed media).

Félix Agbokou studied under Sokey Edoth between 1996 and 1999. He abandoned realism in favour of depicting a fantasy world, and his paintings are spontaneous to the extent that they have no predefined theme. Painted at night and by candlelight, each series of paintings is directly inspired by its immediate surroundings: Lomé, Kouma, Abouri or Ghana. Agbokou uses materials that come readily to hand - leaves of indigenous plants or the bark of local trees - and mixes them with acrylic paint, outlining his forms and individual colours with a black line obtained from a mixture of coconut milk and old nails. His work has featured at group exhibitions, including the ...

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Diabaté, Ismaël  

Malian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1948, in Kayes.

Painter.

Ismaël Diabaté graduated in 1968 from the Bamako national institute of arts and started out painting in a conventionally Western Realist manner. By the mid-1970s, however, he had become increasingly interested in the work of the ...

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Mackenzie, Lucy  

British, 20th – 21st century, female.

Active in Gloucestershire, England.

Born 1952, in Sudan, Africa.

Painter, collage artist. Still-lifes, portraits, scenes from nature.

Hyperrealism.

Lucy MacKenzie studied at Falmouth Art School in Cornwall (1969-1970), Bristol Polytechnic (1970-1973) and the Royal College of Art in London (...

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Schadeberg, Jürgen  

German, 20th–21st century, male.

Born 18 March 1931, in Berlin, Germany.

Active in South Africa from 1950.

Photojournalist, documentary photographer. Figures, city life, apartheid history.

After working as a photographer in Berlin and Hamburg, Jürgen Schadeberg moved to South Africa in 1950. He settled in Johannesburg in ...