Adekunle Gold has got some new portraits shot by the legendary TY Bello
ADEKUNLE GOLD : BECOMING KING . I’m
looking forward to attending his coronation .. I got to hear unreleased
music while I made his portraits . …Nothing quite like his sound .. He’s
the real deal…!He’s about to be crowned and I’m certain. Im a song
writer myself ..so I can tell… Nigeria and indeed the world are about to
discover their new favorite genius …
One day I’ll be boasting about how I
heard those songs before they came out .. The idea for @adekunlegold ‘s
portraits came two days before he called me . I had just read about
Bezaleel on Exodus 31 .. And how God gave him creative genius to work
with Gold , silver and bronze . I had made some art images that
emotionally said everything I wanted but just never felt quite right …
Bezaleel’s work spoke to me .. My work was missing some metal .So I
began to study the use of metal in sculpture and design ….how to bring
that into my work I was trying to figure out which of my artist friends
I’d like to collaborate with when Adekunle Gold’s messages started
flooding in . .. He sent me photographs of designs and concepts with
gold elements and asked me what I thought … I just smiled .. God had
gifted me beautiful work and had taken time to prepare me . I tried to
stay calm as I started going on about how I was tying to decode Exodus
31 and bring it into my work .. And roughly described some ideas that I
had for his album art .. I didn’t need to say much more .. He was
completely in . I collaborated with Sobukola Oluwanisola , an artist
friend of mine and we decided on using recycled metal built into crowns
and deconstructed as pieces for the portraits . So here are our
portraits Rustic and futuristic .. Our Adire clad .. King explorer
..Ready to launch !!#tybellophotography #adekunlegold #gold #music
#collaboration #manandmetal #machines
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