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Blue, darkly,  deeply,  beautifully  Blue Exhibition

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One Off is pleased to present​


'Blue, darkly,  deeply,  beautifully  Blue'.


Featuring works by​
Richard Kimathi
Kyalo Justus
Anthony Okello
Ehoodi Kichapi
​James Muriuki
Rashid Diab
​Dickens Otieno
​Timothy Brooke
James Mbuthia
David Roberts​
Exhibition Run: 
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25 November 2017 - 15 January 2018
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'Blue' at One Off Art Gallery

About the exhibition

Ancient Egyptians used indigo-dyed cloths to wrap their mummies; in Central Asia it was one of the main colours for carpets; for three centuries in Europe and America it was one of the more controversial of dyestuffs, and it would have been familiar to people of many nationalities.

Indigo cultivation probably existed in the Indus Valley more than five thousand years ago, where they called it nila, meaning dark blue. It spread north, south, east and west as the best things often do....Perhaps it was the rumour of a cantankerous djinn in the pot, or perhaps it was its resemblance to the sky, or perhaps it was the way the colour appeared magically, once the textile hit the air, but indigo has often been considered a mystical colour. And one of its mysteries today is that it is part of a spectrum - one of seven official colours, and yet the one that doesn't quite belong...But if you look at a rainbow it is hard to find a stripe of midnight in the place where blue fades to violet.  Indeed, some people argue that it isn't there at all.  From 'Colour - Travels through the paintbox' by Victoria Finlay

And so an exhibition is born. Each of the artworks somehow referencing the history of the magical colour and each infused with a heavy dose of that precious nila. 

Press

EastAfrican - 2-12-2017 - GALLERIES: It's something blue and all that jazz...

Preview of Works

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Smiling people, familiar faces, 2017 by Richard Kimathi - Oil on canvas - 143.5 x 143.5 cm
Father figure, 2017 by Richard Kimathi - Oil on canvas - 172 x 143 cm
Untitled IV, 2016 by Kyalo Justus - Oil on canvas - 140 x 170 cm
Untitled III, 2017 by Kyalo Justus - Oil on canvas - 130 x 128 cm
The Force I, 2017 by Anthony Okello - Oil and acrylic on canvas - 70 x 49 cm
The Force II, 2017 by Anthony Okello - Oil and acrylic on canvas - 70 x 49 cm
Timau Beckons, 2017 by Anthony Okello - Oil on canvas - 83 x 82 cm
Vanity Affair Cow IV, 2016 by Ehoodi Kichapi - Mixed Media on Canvas - 75 x 98 cm
Frog Mock, 2016 by Ehoodi Kichapi - Mixed Media on Canvas - 113 x 76 cm
Vanity Fair Cow I, 2016 by Ehoodi Kichapi - Mixed Media on Canvas - 75 x 98 cm
Untitled - photograph 1/5 by James Muriuki - 47 x 47 cm
Untitled IX (two groups of women), 2016 by Rashid Diab - Acrylic on canvas - 60 x 150 cm
Untitled VI (woman in white), 2015 - Acrylic on canvas - 40 x 40 cm
Untitled II (blue background), 2015 by Rashid Diab - Acrylic on canvas - 35 x 35 cm
Edge of the World by Timothy Brooke - Oil on canvas - 81 x 92 cm
Late afternoon by Timothy Brooke - Oil on canvas - 82 cm x 92 cm
'Doctor' from school uniform series, 2016 by Dickens Otieno - Aluminium cans on coffee tray mesh - 60 x 40 x 13 cm
Head gear, 2015 by James Mbuthia - Acrylic on canvas - 69 x 52 cm
The Conversation, 2016 by James Mbuthia - Acrylic on canvas - 87 x 87 cm
Baringo Morning, 2017 by David Roberts - Mixed media on paper - 50 x 50 cm
Gathering Storm, 2017 by David Roberts - Mixed media on paper - 60 x 70 cm
Off to Market, 2017 by David Roberts - Mixed media on rice paper - 36 x 29 cm
Pressed, 2017 by David Roberts - Mixed media on rice paper - 110 x 66 cm
The Gentle Drop, 2017 by David Roberts - Mixed media on rice paper - 76 x 66 cm

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