Sulger-Buel Gallery

Sulger-Buel Gallery Sulger-Buel Gallery is a London-based gallery specialising in the contemporary art of Africa and its diaspora.

Las Meninas by Velazquez from Spain invited by Italy and The City of Venice Twelve large human size bronze statues in ...
29/04/2024

Las Meninas by Velazquez from Spain invited by Italy and The City of Venice Twelve large human size bronze statues in St. Mark’s Square in Venice to welcome the visitors to the Venice Biennale, which opened on April 20, and to cover the first two months of the opening of the great international exhibition, location is in the most important square popular and busiest in the city. These are Las meninas , a series of works by the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and Contini his Gallery. A wedding of felinity and power. Do go and salute them

Human, candle-like and architectural forms morph in and out of eachother. A shifting perspective occurs as the image dra...
24/03/2024

Human, candle-like and architectural forms morph in and out of eachother. A shifting perspective occurs as the image draws us in, revealing more details and narratives that are overlooked at a first glance.

​​In his work Hassan experiments with the written and spoken word, exploring the theme of ancient languages erased by colonialism. With invented Kufic-inspired scripts, he plays with the symbols, textures and calligraphy of his Nubian heritage to explore the space between graphic symbolism and literal meaning.

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Image: Fathi Hassan, Candle, mixed media on paper, 2014

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Orange circular forms hover on the surface, they gradually disintegrate into hazy marks of orange as the eye begins to b...
09/03/2024

Orange circular forms hover on the surface, they gradually disintegrate into hazy marks of orange as the eye begins to be drawn further into the depths of the picture plane. They hover between a balance and instability, wholeness and fragments. There’s a shimmering light that also resembles the flickering quality of hot air in the desert.

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Image 1: detail
Image2: ‘The Shine of the Desert’, ink, acrylic, pastel on canvas, 2022
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Organic shapes along with a skin-like palette, bring to mind the organs and viscera of the human body. The evocation of ...
01/03/2024

Organic shapes along with a skin-like palette, bring to mind the organs and viscera of the human body. The evocation of ‘tripe’, which generally creates a visceral response of disgust, is now glistening, beautiful and seen as essential parts of a whole body.

The silken sabra (vegetable silk) ribbons create an ethereal and delicate feel, contrasting the use of discarded materials such as water bottles -the detritus of a consumer society- as the bones of the structure. Therefore within both the subject and material of this piece, there’s a transcending of the lowly and overlooked, into something to be appreciated.

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Image 1: Ghizlane Sahli, HISTOIRES DE TRIPES 057 (HT057), silk yarn on plastic and metal, 2018
Image 2: Detail
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Sekajugo’s separation and identification of ‘The Yellow Jerrycan’ within this image, stands in contrast to the unidentif...
25/02/2024

Sekajugo’s separation and identification of ‘The Yellow Jerrycan’ within this image, stands in contrast to the unidentifiable silhouettes and mass of brown jerrycans.

The question of identity arises, through these distinctions between the crowd and the singular. These silhouette’s convey movement, and a presence that can’t be identified and discriminated against based on ethnicity and class.

Exploring the role of identity in the making of Uganda’s social fabric is important for Sekajugo both metaphorically and materially. Polypropylene is a locally sourced material used in this piece for example, denoting consumerism.

Image: The Yellow Jerrycan, photo print, polypropylene and acrylic on canvas, 2019

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“My work discusses the relationship between the included and excluded and opens dialogue on issues of identity and polit...
20/02/2024

“My work discusses the relationship between the included and excluded and opens dialogue on issues of identity and politics. By working with forgotten historical events and current state policies, I raise questions of power dynamics between the individual and authority on the social and political level. It gives a voice to the marginalized minorities.”(Alfadni, 2020)

The King’s African Rifles (KAR) was a British Colonial Auxillary Forces regiments raised from Britain’s East African colonies in 1902. The regiment’s enlisted soldiers were ‘Askari’s’, soldiers drawn from the native Africans. The parade uniform of the KAR consisted of tall fezzes and cummerbunds, worn by the three soldiers in the left of this photograph. The leg wraps (puttees) worn by the soldiers on the right, demonstrate the regiment’s field service uniforms

Alfadni reveals this sensitive passapge of time that is generally overlooked and ignored, in order to shed light on the pain, exploitation and trauma experienced by these people who were badly affected by colonialism.

Image: Askari Soldiers, East Africa 1902, digital print on paper, 2020

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Animals, humans and surroundings seem interchangeable in these monochromatic drawings. Cisse’s use of the crumbly Fusain...
14/02/2024

Animals, humans and surroundings seem interchangeable in these monochromatic drawings. Cisse’s use of the crumbly Fusain material in a direct and confident manner, creates these fluid lines, where there’s no clear distinction between where one form ends and another begins.

In Fusain III the leg of the bear morphs into the leg of the figure to its right. A moment of change and flux is captured in these mythical encounters.

Image 1: Fusain I, charcoal on paper, 2023
Image 2: Fusain II, charcoal on paper, 2023
Image 3: Fusain III, charcoal on paper, 2023
Image 4: Fusain IV, charcoal on paper, 2023

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Currently on display in the Chazon Museum of Art, Madison. Plain, anonymous figures sit ontop of wooden oars that are dr...
03/02/2024

Currently on display in the Chazon Museum of Art, Madison.

Plain, anonymous figures sit ontop of wooden oars that are draped in traditional Nigerian cloth. They appear to be caught in a moment of transition, of travel and change.

Alatise’s work discusses social issues at the heart of her home country Nigeria. She writes, ‘My work tells a story of a cultural practice that is quickly being eroded” – not (this time) by European ideology, but rather by global trade “as the unfortunate appetite [in Nigeria] for all things imported abandons indigenous practices.” “The unfortunate appearance of the traditional kings and Obas and the Alafin adorned in polyester lace from China is evidence of all that is wrong,” she writes, “This is not a new story, this is an echo of stories from Nigerian colonial era.” (Alatise, 2018)

Image 1: ‘Bluer On the Other Side (The Problem With Immigration)’ (Installation view), wood, textile, granite, acrylic and metal, 2018.
Image 2: Detail
Image 3: Detail

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alatise

Incredible display outside the Royal Academy !
01/02/2024

Incredible display outside the Royal Academy !

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