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Saturday, July 09, 2005
A panel to oversee public art in Nigeria?
A long interview with the new President of the Society of Nigerian Artists. The bit that relates to public art is at the end of the long article so scroll down.
Titbits include this rant on the proper positioning and placement of public sculptures# posted @ 11:44 PM
"You will discover that most of the sculptures in Nigeria are [placed] too low, that is why mad people can go there and deface the works by pasting posters on them. The Herbert Macaulay statute situated in Sabo area of Lagos, people went to put a cap on it. At Broad Street, various sculptural pieces situated in the ever busy street are seen from a distance. The pedestal itself sometimes appear somewhat like a story building and the wall when viewing it from a distance. The Obafemi Awolowo's and Tai Solarin's statutes are too low, which makes it possible for people to tamper with them."
