EL ANATSUI TO SPONSOR 12 WINNERS TO DAK’ART BIENNALE 2020!
The artistic director of LIMCAF, Dr. Ayo Adewunmi has announced details of the selection of the Top 100 New Works which will feature at the Grand Finale Exhibition opening on Monday 11 November, 2019. These include outstanding works from Lagos and Enugu Exhibition Centres with the highest number of selected entries of 23 and 22 respectively, 9 each from Ibadan and Ondo, 10 from the Abuja Exhibition Centre, 11 from Benin, 7 from the Port Harcourt Centre, 6 from Zaria and 5 from the Uyo.
Adewunmi also announced that for the first time all 100 successful finalists from across Nigeria would be sponsored by LIMCAF to attend the Gala and Award Night in Enugu. By this LIMCAF sets another record in the history of contemporary art development in Nigeria adding to the existing record of being the first private sector initiative to empower young artists beyond prize money through sponsorship to the Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal.
He added that twelve young artists comprising top prize six winners from 2018 and the six that will emerge at the 2019 Award Night (all selected solely on merit) will be at Dak’art Senegal 2020 solely sponsored by LIMCAF’s Patron, the Ghana-born Emeritus Professor El Anatsui, formally of the University of Nigeria Nsukka.
