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Adébayo Bolaji, Birth 2024. Acrylic and oil pastel on cotton. 154 x 121 cm. Courtesy of Bolaji Studio.
Exhibition
Adébayo Bolaji : In Praise of Beauty
29 Jun 2024 – 29 Sep 2024
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 16 Narrow Quay
- Bristol, BS1 4QA
- Bristol
England - BS1 4QA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Most city centre bus services stop within walking distance of Arnolfini. The nearest stops are at The Centre and Queen Square.
- Arnolfini is a 15 minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads railway station. A taxi rank can be found outside the station.
About
Arnolfini welcome you into the kaleidoscopic and multidisciplinary world of Adébayo Bolaji, whose solo exhibition In Praise of Beauty takes over the first-floor galleries, exploring and questioning notions of beauty through painting, sculpture, film and writing.
‘Beauty, in one sense, is a narrative, an experience, and a value so powerful that it can transform even the most powerful among us into the weakest in a moment. In Praise of Beauty is creative questioning, a deliberate act of bringing beauty into focus, and an opportunity to explore, discover, and rediscover its essence.’ Adébayo Bolaji.
Based upon a new body of work (commissioned by New Art Exchange) In Praise of Beauty includes the monumental works in acrylic and oil pastel The Vessel (2024) and No Beauty Without Struggle (2024), mixed-media series I Love You (2024), drawings, and mythological-inspired sculpture with The Head of Medusa (2024). Showing alongside is A Notebook on the Voice (2023), a film which Bolaji describes as ‘a scrap-book, exploring ideas on what it can mean to have a voice, to use it, or to have it used…’
