Peteros Ndunde

Lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya

Born in 1996

ARTIST'S BIO

Peteros Ndunde is a Nairobi based fine artist who primarily uses ballpoint ink to create drawings and works on paper. In this exhibition, Ndunde continues his investigations into form through fragmentation, layering and repeated gestures.

Ndunde’s drawings straddle the precarious lines between art historical formalism —making reference to rigidity and structure in form— as well as experimentation. This balance between a drawing out from art history and his own interpretation allows the work space to breathe, where each gesture becomes an emblem for full expression.

The spine along which his practice is built is bound by two core principles; distillation and repetition where fracture, fragmentation and reconstruction result in totality. He succeeds in extracting the most essential aspects of form through a process of repetition and layering.

Ndunde notes; “In my creative process, I break things down with the intent of focusing on the most important aspect each piece conveys. The first break-down is decluttering the composition as a whole where I intentionally use negative space.” He elaborates; “I have to be repetitive with my line drawing technique. The process is purely layering strokes of lines until form is achieved. It is simple but labour intensive.”

Ndunde’s artistic practice can be read through medium, materials as well as technique, all of which make visible a sensibility that is drawn to clarity and compositional balance. Line and shadow are used to create fractured and disassembled figures with a suggestion towards cubism, particularly through the use of light, tone as well as a reduction of colour to a single hue at a time where reds, greens, blues and greys assert themselves against negative space.

The use of ballpoint pen ink adds to the reading of his work while also frustrating art historical readings of his work. This is particularly because the work lies within existing traditions of experimentation pioneered on by a long line and lineage of artists who continued to reject and complicate clear readings of art as purely painting and/or sculpture.

Ndunde’s drawings resist allegorical readings and empty out overt symbolism. This emptying out of symbols leaves behind interesting structural images—aerobic and acrobatic figures that emerge, leap, bend, reach and land. They seductively root themselves between edges; at once uniform and intelligible while also remaining complex, elusive and opaque. 

From Artskop.com

 

Exhibitions

Art For Good

Open Studio

Aftermath of Aftermath

FEATURES & REVIEWS

State Of The Art – Kiti Ya Baba Na Kiti Ya Mimi

Artskop – Peteros Ndunde: Layering until form is achieved

Business Daily Africa – Works of young Kenyan artists grace Safaricom House walls

Strauss & Co – Artist Feature 

Video FEATURES

Emerging Painting Invitational 

Peteros Ndunde (Kenya) - 2020 EPI Finalist

Process

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