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Artists unite for unique festival celebration
03rd June 2009. Posted by Luke McNaney.
The London launch of this year’s BASS Festival will commence with a unique collaboration led by renowned Nigerian artist Lemi Ghariokwu.
On Tuesday 9 June, Rich Mix in Shoreditch, London hosts a launch night to celebrate an exclusive exhibition of Lemi’s album sleeve artwork entitled ‘Art’s Own Kind’.
To mark the occasion, a collective of London and Birmingham artists will join Lemi and influential graphic designer Swifty in creating new work inspired by Lemi’s back catalogue.
The artists will come together at Rich Mix on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 June. In not working to a strict design brief, they seek to fuse their artistic styles and improvise to create a new piece, using materials that vary from paint and papier-mâché to aerosols and glue guns.
The artists joining Lemi and Swifty will be led by Simon Redgrave, who has demonstrated his artistry in exploring issues of heritage and culture via his ‘Scholars and Warriors’ portfolio. Lead designer Mandeep Malhi has previously lent her talents to projects including ‘Soho Road to Punjab’ and ‘Bollywood Stills’.
‘Art’s Own Kind’ is the first showing of Lemi’s work in England for five years. The exhibition brings together some of his most infamous designs, including his work for iconic Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, to show how creative and repressive moments in the 1970s bore the Afrobeat phenomenon.
Lemi and typographer Swifty have already indulged in an Anglo-African collaboration, with the latter taking an original Lemi sketch and transforming it into the bold black-and-white print pictured. Original prints of this design will be sold at Rich Mix.
The launch night on Tuesday 9 will celebrate the exhibition’s first week of its month-long run. As well as an appearance by Lemi, pioneering Afrobeat musician Tony Allen – described by Brian Eno as ‘probably the most important musician of the past 50 years’ – will be performing live.
The artist ‘mash-up’ event will precede the launch, taking place on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 between 12 and 6pm. This event will be open to the public and free to view alongside the exhibition itself.
For more info on BASS Festival, the UK’s only month-long urban music and arts festival, please visit www.bassfestival.co.uk.