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		<title>Stevenson Cape Town is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Odili Donald Odita, an artist who has shown regularly with the gallery over the past decade.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Acrylic paintings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years Odili Donald Odita has been acutely aware and contemplative of the tensions, contradictions and paradoxes between here and there, Africa and the Western world, and the idea of a Third World and a mainstream First World. The artist, who was born in Nigeria and has lived in the United States for most of his adult life, understands the distances between the perceived centres and margins of the (art) world, and the filtering and distortions that colour the connections between them. His new work considers this in-between space, a space that is often fractured, disjointed and replete with disjunctions and differences, aesthetically, economically, conceptually. Odita also sees a ‘third degree of separation’ as finding connection within a state of isolation, the cultural limbo of his experiences as an African in the Western world, and more specifically, searching in between these binaries to discover the intricacies of this space, which he understands as ‘the space of colour’. Aside from a series of new large acrylic paintings, Odita will also exhibit his templates and sketches for the works which offer an insight into the artist’s process. In his words: I’ve noticed that often a drawing only turns into a painting six months to a year later. Over the period, the drawing transforms; I might go back [...]]]></description>
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