The chromatic audacity here is impossible to ignore: a cadmium-yellow face pressed against a cobalt torso, the whole construction trembling somewhere between portraiture and raw chromatic field. Adeyemi's blocky, urgent application echoes the Neo-Expressionist fervour of Georg Baselitz, stripping the human figure back to its most insistent, unmediated presence.
The chromatic audacity here is impossible to ignore: a cadmium-yellow face pressed against a cobalt torso, the whole construction trembling somewhere between portraiture and raw chromatic field. Adeyemi's blocky, urgent application echoes the Neo-Expressionist fervour of Georg Baselitz, stripping the human figure back to its most insistent, unmediated presence.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery