Abe Odedina was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1960 and currently lives in London and Salvador Bahia. Odedina, who is a trained architect, began painting during a trip to Brazil in 2007 where he fell in love with the popular arts of Bahia and Pernambuco. A full-time painter, Odedina describes herself as a popular artist. The ideas that inspire his work are rooted in the rich figurative and oral traditions of African art, imbued with a touch of magical realism. His work is exuberantly non-elitist, celebrating the power of the everyday and the mythical.

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