Victor Ekpuk is an Alexandria, VA based artist. Victor Ekpuk has an interest in creating art. It is a challenge for him to create art using ancient African writing systems to express contemporary experiences. African writing and graphic symbols are the inspirations for the paintings of Victor Ekpuk and nurture his love of expression through ancient forms. Victor Ekpuk is particularly interested in Nsibidi, an aboriginal African mode of communication that uses graphic signs and pantomimes to convey ideas.
Victor Ekpuk uses unfathomable symbols and his own modified images and signs to create art that conveys human conditions of joy, pain and hope. African culture separates the ordinary from the sacred by only a hairsbreadth. The art of Victor Ekpuk attempts to convey the emotional responses of the symbols and forms that originate from these cultures. The works of Victor Ekpuk hopes to share the spirituality of life by telling stories and contemplating prayers that heal and inspire us. Victor Ekpuk works by converting shapes to basic lines to form a style that gives the impression of written scripts. Victor Ekpuk combines ancient scripts with contemporary forms to provide background narrative to his compositions.
Victor Ekpuk has also used Egyptian hieroglyphics to build up a set of script images that are mysterious and deeply convincing. The meanings of the scripts by Victor Ekpuk are above literal decoding but are hinted at through their elaborate painted and sculptured forms. The works of Victor Ekpuk is a reminder that the power of literacy cannot be simply reduced to written symbols to convey meaning or content.
Well known works of Victor Ekpuk include The Sage, Ojuelegba, Paradise is Here and Land of the Brave. The exhibitions of Victor Ekpuk have been held in numerous galleries all over the world.
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