Location: Nigeria
Akeni Prosper is a first-class artist of high repute, a painter, sculptor and designer of international acclaim. Studied painting and general art in the prestigious Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, Nigeria, and graduated with several awards.
The Holocaust Series, are a group of collection of Akeni Prosper 's artworks, featured in his Kulukism style. The resonate in the direction of using art for a mild protest against human devaluation by man's ignoble antecedents. The wars must stop! Man's destruction of man must not be encouraged. The world must be a better place. The series are fifty (50) master pieces, acquired and scattered all over the whole world, with a lot of them in the United States, in collection and custody Ellen Robinson Design Center, 100 by 57, Apartment 18, Carnegie House, Manhattan, New York. Some are in the United Kingdom, Spain, and interestingly, Germany. They are widely collected, though they were meant to be a group to be assembled in one place, hung in a collage manner.
These are artworks rendered in the Kulukism style. An invented style by Akeni Prosper, a collection of over 50 prints and mixed media in mostly black monochromatic rendition, and echo of the concept.
The narrative is that the modern day man still inflicts himself with the Holocaust spirit. A self destructive manipulation, though targeted at others. The message is the wars should stop, man's inhumanity against man should be totally decimated.
The world should see more of peace and become a better place.
The art of Kulukism
The art of Kulukism
The cries of the citizens is often echoed in the news around, like a string in a dirge when the sounds of war are drumming...
“Holocaust 4 "The King, the subject, and the Republic"”
The art of Kulukism. The beauty in corruption's ugliness, the trappings of the autocratic.
“Holocaust series 5. " The inferno"”
The sound of nukes, the call to run, the drifting waters, the blood on the river...tears everywhere..stop the wars!
“Holocaust 6. "Violence on women"”
There are certain cases of violence on women that could be likened to Holocaust.
“Holocaust 7. " Beauty in the basement"”
People are forcefully relocated. Hiding is a natural phenomenon, the cobwebs become the companion forging ahead within the clogs of abandonment.
Beauty is no more an object of tolerance. All are forced down at the blast of the siren of the domes.
The land becomes scary when the visitors are crusaders of insurgency. The plants are buried upside down, to announce the coming of the crusaders. Fear is announced. The scare is real.
“Holocaust 1 "scream"”
“Holocaust 2 "Experience"”
“Holocaust 3 "Town cryer"”
“Holocaust 8. "Scare"”
