Primo Marella Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition THE BLACK GHOST.
The Black Ghost exhibition aims at highlighting the innovative and strong attitude of the most interesting African artists of the new generation to paint towards a new figurative direction, where the characters – mainly black people - become the real protagonists of short stories, involved in extraneous circumstances and visions.
The power of storytelling through portraiture turns into a vehicle for interrogating ideas of cultural heritage and identity.
Most of the times, characters are depicted as flat shapes, with little width, thin lines, almost as they were emptied bodies. If it wasn’t for the presence of human traits, i.e. eyes, nose and lips, they would be pure shadows.
