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Centre for Contemporary Art,Lagos is pleased to present its public programme on Thursday 1st of October as follows Date Thursday 1st October 2009 Time 2pm (prompt o) Venue - CCA,Lagos 9 McEwen Street, Sabo, Yaba Artist Kainebi Osahenye talks about his exhibition Trash-ing with CCA,Lagos Director Bisi Silva. They are then joined in a panel discussion on the State of Painting in Nigeria by Uche Edochie and Jess Castellote 3.30pm - Refreshments 4. 00pm Talk by Giles Peppiat, MRICS, Director, Bonhams Mr Peppiat's talk will give an overview of the international auction house Bonhams as well as focus on the contemporary African art sales within an international context. Giles Peppiatt studied at St. Andrews University before joining Bonhams in 1989. In 1993 he trained as an auctioneer and conducted his first auction in that year. In 1997 he qualified as a ‘Chartered Arts & Antiques Surveyor’ with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Giles is also the world leading exper...

Opening: Saturday, 12th September 2009, 3pm Exhibition continues till 10th October 2009 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present an exhibition of new mixed media and painterly installations by acclaimed Lagos based artist Kainebi Osahenye. With over twenty years of artistic practice, this current incarnation Trash-ing builds on the continuous process of experimentation which has pushed the boundaries of his painting. Trash-ing signals a new departure from his well-known large-scale neo-expressionist paintings towards the incorporation of more conceptual concerns through a format that increasingly borrows from an installation orientated process. Losing none of his gestural signature strokes, nor the luminosity of his colours or the edginess of his subject matter, Trash-ing highlights some of the issues that have pervaded his work for over a decade. In the recent works these existential, political, religious and everyday themes which habitually manifested with a degree o...