Tolulope Sobowale Metal Art Sculptures as Means of Language Communication in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper focus on Sobowale Tolulope metal sculpture and how he had transformed metal scraps into environmental art and also analyses how the works communicated the language in the society. These scraps are our everyday metal objects which range from automobile parts to utilitarian objects like lantern and electrical generators. His approach to waste aesthetics and environmental management led to creation of magnificent artworks which is embedded in great dexterity. Welded metal art an injection of foreign artistic practice in contemporary Nigerian art scene which has it cream in the 21st century, this artistic practice which is a cross multidisciplinary field of creative exploration that acquaint artist with scientific manipulation of fixating metal together through an electrode of semiconducting device with electrical charges whereby heat and pressure is applied in order to adhere them together. Here, few of his works will be analyzed in terms of themes, styles, ideology and his dexterous capacity in material exploration. Metal sculpture a three-dimensional art which focuses on additive process of sculptural exploration that shows the thing gap between art and science as field of studies with the same offspring, however the term additive process in art is the same as constructive process in science. Sobowale Tolulope indigenous creativity will be discuss in this paper by adopting descriptive, analytic and evaluative approach as methodology.

Keywords: Metal, Scrap, Art, Objects, Language, Communication, Weld, Sculptural.