The Dreamer By Laolu
Details
This limited edition sculpture made in collaboration with Lladro Furniture and Nigerian artist Laolu features the artist’s signature style painting technique that has earned him collaborations with celebrities and magazines. In 2016, Laolu’s work was featured on Beyoncé’s 2016 Grammy-award winning album, Lemonade.
Editors' Note
Featured in The Fader, Vogue, Vice, CNN, BBC, and more, highly celebrated Nigerian artist Laolu Senbanjo is a painter, musician, singer-songwriter, and former human rights attorney. As a child, Laolu found art in everything he saw, particularly inspired by his mother’s tribal body tattoos. These tattoos, along with other childhood memories, helped Laolu recognize the power of his art on the human body. He believes his art transforms into the body, and the body, in turn, becomes the art. "I put my fears on the back of the body and my hopes in front…” The artist says in his 2017 TED Talk, “What are my hopes? I hope that people know Africa is not just one huge nameless continent that is all the same... In Nigeria, we have over 350 ethnic groups and languages, and I am just one artist from one of them. I also hope that I can change the way people talk about African art and that it is not just found in Harlem markets. Every piece of art that you see has a story and every artist has a name." Individuality, empathy, and African nationalism are major themes in Laolu’s expressive works.
Details
This limited edition sculpture made in collaboration with Lladro Furniture and Nigerian artist Laolu features the artist’s signature style painting technique that has earned him collaborations with celebrities and magazines. In 2016, Laolu’s work was featured on Beyoncé’s 2016 Grammy-award winning album, Lemonade.
Editors' Note
Featured in The Fader, Vogue, Vice, CNN, BBC, and more, highly celebrated Nigerian artist Laolu Senbanjo is a painter, musician, singer-songwriter, and former human rights attorney. As a child, Laolu found art in everything he saw, particularly inspired by his mother’s tribal body tattoos. These tattoos, along with other childhood memories, helped Laolu recognize the power of his art on the human body. He believes his art transforms into the body, and the body, in turn, becomes the art. "I put my fears on the back of the body and my hopes in front…” The artist says in his 2017 TED Talk, “What are my hopes? I hope that people know Africa is not just one huge nameless continent that is all the same... In Nigeria, we have over 350 ethnic groups and languages, and I am just one artist from one of them. I also hope that I can change the way people talk about African art and that it is not just found in Harlem markets. Every piece of art that you see has a story and every artist has a name." Individuality, empathy, and African nationalism are major themes in Laolu’s expressive works.
Details
This limited edition sculpture made in collaboration with Lladro Furniture and Nigerian artist Laolu features the artist’s signature style painting technique that has earned him collaborations with celebrities and magazines. In 2016, Laolu’s work was featured on Beyoncé’s 2016 Grammy-award winning album, Lemonade.
Editors' Note
Featured in The Fader, Vogue, Vice, CNN, BBC, and more, highly celebrated Nigerian artist Laolu Senbanjo is a painter, musician, singer-songwriter, and former human rights attorney. As a child, Laolu found art in everything he saw, particularly inspired by his mother’s tribal body tattoos. These tattoos, along with other childhood memories, helped Laolu recognize the power of his art on the human body. He believes his art transforms into the body, and the body, in turn, becomes the art. "I put my fears on the back of the body and my hopes in front…” The artist says in his 2017 TED Talk, “What are my hopes? I hope that people know Africa is not just one huge nameless continent that is all the same... In Nigeria, we have over 350 ethnic groups and languages, and I am just one artist from one of them. I also hope that I can change the way people talk about African art and that it is not just found in Harlem markets. Every piece of art that you see has a story and every artist has a name." Individuality, empathy, and African nationalism are major themes in Laolu’s expressive works.
Additional Details
14.961” W x 12.598” H x 8.661” D
Created in 2023
Porcelain
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