Dennis Muraguri: New Sculpture: Circle Art Gallery
Past exhibition
Works
For our final exhibition of the year, we have invited Dennis Muraguri (Kenyan, b. 1980) back to Circle for his second solo exhibition with a return to his quirky and curious mixed media sculptures. After taking a break from sculpture for 5 years, he wished to revisit this medium and to find new approaches. Dennis describes the new works as ‘less mechanical and more figurative and influenced by the politics of they day’. In this new body of work, using recycled wood as a foundation, the addition of disparate materials merges seamlessly to give us a sense of harmony. Muraguri makes his choice of media and form seems effortless as if all the parts have grown up together and are natural extensions of each other.
Dennis Muraguri was born in 1980 in Naivasha and is a multimedia artist, based in Nairobi, working in painting, printmaking and sculpture. He graduated from the Buru Buru Institute of Fine Arts with a diploma in Painting and Art History and has been a resident artist at the Kuona Artists' Collective since 2005.
Mostly recognized for his woodcut prints inspired by ‘matatu’ (Kenyan minibuses) his 3 dimensional works are less known. Following his first solo at Circle in 2016, Circle has shown his prints and sculptures at the 1-54 Art Fair in London in 2018, the Johannesburg Art Fair in 2016. Muraguri was invited to participate in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2019. Most recently, Muraguri's work was included in the Kesho Kutwa exhibition at the National Museums of Kenya in 2021.
Dennis Muraguri was born in 1980 in Naivasha and is a multimedia artist, based in Nairobi, working in painting, printmaking and sculpture. He graduated from the Buru Buru Institute of Fine Arts with a diploma in Painting and Art History and has been a resident artist at the Kuona Artists' Collective since 2005.
Mostly recognized for his woodcut prints inspired by ‘matatu’ (Kenyan minibuses) his 3 dimensional works are less known. Following his first solo at Circle in 2016, Circle has shown his prints and sculptures at the 1-54 Art Fair in London in 2018, the Johannesburg Art Fair in 2016. Muraguri was invited to participate in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2019. Most recently, Muraguri's work was included in the Kesho Kutwa exhibition at the National Museums of Kenya in 2021.
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