OUT OF AFRICA GALLERY
BARCELONA, SPAIN / LONDON, U.K.

Out of Africa Gallery

OOA Gallery was founded in 2011 and is located in the heart of Sitges; a stunning seaside resort, south of Barcelona, steeped in history and a rich culture. OOA Gallery champions contemporary African art, and work closely with an esteemed range of international artists, collectors, patrons, art fairs, and museums, spanning across Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

OOA Gallery is committed to providing a unique platform for emerging and established artists to express their respective narratives, values and experiences through their artistic prowess, and to support them to explore, grow, and flourish in their practice. In the spirit of growth and exploration, the gallery now has a presence in the one of the major global art capitals, London and very soon in Paris too. OOA Gallery London, will extend the gallery’s reach, influence and name, and aid the gallery’s ambitious international programme and agenda.

OOA Gallery has selected two figurative Nigerian artists; in-demand artist Oluwole Omofemi (1988) and emerging artist Matthew Eguavoen (1988). Painted with oil and acrylic on canvas, Oluwole Omofemi’s black women, are depicted with dark, midnight hue skin, etched with deep tribal marks, and are crowned with engulfing halo-esque afros. Despite what on face value could appear to be a bleak outlook, Oluwole’s overarching mission is to showcase afrocentric pride, which he maintains can only truly be championed through how black women view themselves and in turn are viewed by others. Matthew addresses the impact of Slavery on the Africa and its people, the extinction of African traditional values and the growing sensation of religion in Africa, importation of western moral and cultural values to Africa and exiling Africa’s own cultural values as a people, with Africans abandoning Africa for relative greener pastures in western countries.