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About: Age of Heroes
Every challenging period in human history demands heroes. The Covid-19 pandemic confronted us with a puzzle whose pieces require ingenuity, verve and fearlessness. It demanded heroes.
Our heroes confronted this problem with research, resolve and resistance. The vaccine emerged in a flash. Despondency was deterred. Healthcare workers fought back with vigor and bravado; in a battlefield defined by unease and the unknown. Power and resources flowed from the air, the land, and from the heart.
Warriors were born; and history wrote new stories on the faces of the cared for, and the cured. Disease abated. Gloom escaped. A new day is born. A new sunny day which shall forever pay tribute and proclaim this time as the Age of Heroes.
Chu, Artist. 2022.
AWARD WINNER
DIALOGUE
Chu Okoli
66" X 120"
Oil on canvas
Dialogue is communication inevitable. When two similar passions collide in a kiss, an explosion of energy is released sending waves of feelings in concentric flow across the Universe. Time stands still and space collapses.
This piece took 5 years from start to completion. August 2010 - August 2015.
It won a Medici Medal in Painting at The Florence Contemporary Art Biennale in Florence Italy in 2015.