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Elisha NyongOdd Tales From an Old Flame -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Surrealism2025
2025
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About the Item
A dream spills open like an old book without words—
Its pages breathe smoke and feathered wings,
keys that unlock nothing, clocks that refuse to tell time.
In the half-light, a figure lingers,
their face fractured into shards of memory,
each fragment whispering a story too strange to name.
Roses sprout eyes, candles bleed blue fire,
and a phonograph spins only sighs.
Love is present here, but disfigured—
a tenderness twisted into riddles,
an intimacy that haunts like unfinished music.
This painting is not a memory,
but the ghost of one—
odd tales retold by silence and shadow.
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Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)
About the Artist
Elisha Nyong’s surreal body of work is a terrestrial representation of his personal “Surrealist’s manifesto,” which he developed as a budding artist. It encapsulates the surreal practice of André Breton and the allusions of Salvador Dalí and is fueled by the psychoanalytic theories of Freud. His style is born of studies and research to better understand creativity by exploring abstract themes of an abstract world with physical consequences.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Demystifying the mysteries of existentialism is the core of my art praxis; my technique rides stately on the back of free-spiritedness and countermanding the superstitions and taboos of the society in which I was raised. The unique themes of my visual allegories are a clarion call to seek out and assimilate dimensions beyond the three-dimensional world... it is a letter, so long I’ve barely begun.
- Creator:Elisha Nyong (1996, Nigerian)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 52 in (132.08 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Ibadan, NG
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1717217178382
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