Uzo Egonu

Uzo Egonu  (25 December 1931 ruo 14 August 1996) bụ nwaafọ Nigerian na-ésè ihe òsìsè ,onye biri na Britain na afọ 1940 gụrụ gawa, "Uzo Egonu", Diaspora Artists. naanị otu ugboro ka ọ laghachitere n'ala nna ya n'ihi nọ ụbọchị abụọ na 1970,  ọ bụ ezie na ọ nọgidere na-enwe nchegbu banyere ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị Afrịka "Uzo Egonu, Artist", InIVA. Dị ka Rasheed Araeen si kwuo, Egonu bụ "ikekwe onye mbụ si Africa, Eshia ma ọ bụ Caribbean bịara Britain mgbe Agha  gachara iji bụrụu onye nka." Rasheed Araeen, "Recovering Cultural Metaphors", The Other Story catalogue, 1989, p. 86. Dị ka onye nyocha Molara Wood si kwuo, "Ọrụ Egonu jikọtara ọdịnala ndị Europe na nke Igbo mana nke pụtara ìhè bụ, o dowere Afrịka dị ka ihe ngosipụta nke ọgbara ọhụrụ. Na ijikọta asụsụ a na-ahụ anya nke nka Western na Afrika, o nyeere aka ịkọwapụta ókè nke oge a, wee si otú a na-agbagha akụkọ ọdịbendị na-adịghị mma nke Europe, na nke onye omenkà Africa oge gboo. " Molara Wood, "Uzo Egonu's Vision of London", 30 September 2005. First published in The Guardian, Lagos, on 19 December 2004.

 Akụkọ Ndu 
Amụrụ ya na Onitsha,  Naịjirịa, Egonu dị na mmalite afọ iri na ụma ya na 1945  nke bụ mbụ ya ịga England. Obidola ise ihe tupu ọmalite Sacred Heart College, Calabar Rasheed Araeen, "Uzo Egonu 1931–1996", Third Text, Volume 10, Issue 36, 1996, pp. 105–106. DOI:10.1080/09528829608576634. tupu ọ gawa UK, ọ mechara gụọ Fine Arts na Taipografi na Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London,   site na 1949 ruo 1952, " The Creative Case for Diversity in Britain > Further reading on the Artists", Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture. o wee gaa isonye n'ọtụtụ ngosi. 

Na 1977, o so na ndi ojii ndi n’ese ihe na ndi n’ese foto ndị ọrụ ha nochitere anya UK na Emume  Second World Festival of Black Arts and African culture (Festac ’77) na Lagos, Nigeria (ndi ozo bu ndi Winston Branchn,Ronald Moody, Mercian Carrena, Armet Francis, Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede, Neil Kenlock, Donald Locke, Cyprian Mandala, Ossie Murray, Sue Smock, Lance Watson na Aubrey Williams ). "Festac (Second Festival of Black Arts and Culture)", Tate. Eddie Chambers, Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s, I.B. Tauris, 2014, pp. 42–43, 58. Na 1983 otu International Association of Art kpọrọ ya ka ọ nye ya ugwu maka oge ndụ ya niile, nsọpụrụ nke ya na ndị na-ese ihe na ndị opịpị dịka Henry Moore, Joan Miró na Louise Nevelson.  E tinyekwara Egonu na ngosi abụọ bụ isi nke centuri iri abụọ nke gosipụtara ndị isi ojii bụ Omenka nke British: na 1989 ihe ngosi dị ịrịba ama egosipụtara na ụlọ ngosi bụ Hayward Gallery, dị na London na ihe ngosi bụ The other Story, na afọ asaa ka nke ahụ gasịrị Transforming the Crown, nke Caribbean Cultural Center na New York City chịkọtara. Ọ bụ onye otu egwurugwu nka Rainbow Art group, atụmatụ e hiwere na 1978, nke ghotara isi nsogbu dị na njikọ gbasara ọrụ na ebumnuche agbụrụ nta niile gbasara nka , tinyere nke ha. "Rainbow Art Group", Diaspora Artists.

N'afọ ndị sochirinụ ọ nwere nkụchi obi na , nsogbu anya,na abalị iri na anọ n'ọnwa ògọstụ,1996 ọ nwụrụ na London. "Monographs on African Artists| Egonu, Uzo, 1931-1996", Smithsonian Libraries.

 Nhọrọ odide na Ntọala ahapụrụ 
Isiokwu nke ọmụmụ ihe nke Olu Oguibe dere nke a kpọrọ Uzo Egonu: Onye Omenka nke Africa na West (1995), akọwakwala Egonu dịka " onye kachasị ukwuu n'ise ihe n'oge a nke Afrika".   Eddie Chambers ekwunyela gbasara"ike dị ịtụnanya nke Egonu iji ọdịdị ala na ụlọ dị na obodo dị iche iche mere nhazi usoro geometrik na-akpali ma na-enye mmasị, ma nke ọ bụla dị iche na nnọchi anya  ya." Chambers (2014), p. 60. E gosipụtara ọrụ ya na ngosi ihe ngosi 2015–16 No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990 na Guildhall Art Gallery, Obodo London . 

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 Ngosi nke Otu onye

 2004: Uzo Egonu's London, Museum of London, London
 1997: Uzo Egonu: Past and Present in the Diaspora, InIVA
 1986: Uzo Egonu Now 1986: Stateless People, Royal Festival Hall, London

 Ngosi nke Otu

 2015: No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990, Guildhall Art Gallery, London
 2001: The Short Century, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
 1997: Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966–1996, New York City
 1990: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
 1989: The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, Hayward Gallery, London
 1986: Third World Within, Brixton Art Gallery, London (31 March–22 April)
 1975: Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial, Graphic Art Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 1973: Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London

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