Rufus Ogundele 心地よい空間へ
感性、 ではない
ギャラリーへ
ムードを選ぶだけで、空間がそれに応えます。光は冷たさや温もりを帯び、空気の流れが変わり、その感情を宿した作品だけが暗闇の中から浮かび上がります。それ以外のすべては、影の中へと退いていくのです。
Rufus Ogundele
The Stage and the Studio Osogbo, 1946. The air carries the weight of Yoruba oral tradition and the energy of performance. Before the brush, there is the stage. Rufus Ogundele moves within the Duro Ladipo Theatre Company, a space where myth and movement collide. He performs alongside his uncle’s troupe, absorbing the rhythms of Yoruba opera and the dramatic tension of stories like Oba Koso. This early immersion in theatre provides the st
ructural foundation for his visual language. The theatricality of the stage later finds its way into the compartmentalized compositions of his canvases. The shift toward visual art begins in the 1960s. He enters the workshops organized by Ulli and Georgina Beier, creative incubators that foster the Osogbo Art School. In 1963, he joins these sessions, finding a space where formal academic shackles are stripped away. Under the guidance o…