A director of black passionate Art Galary Ltd, Mr Ugo Emmanuel Chidi, yesterday called on Government, the State and the Federal to invest in Arts, Culture and Tourism for Wealth creation and reduce the level of unemployment in the country.
He made the call during a 3 day art exhibition programme in Benin tagged
Art and Wine exhibition put together to facilitate the improvement of Art
exhibition both locally and internationally. And it is also to bridge the gap between art and the general public.
According to him, Art and Wine is one of the concepts that will enable us to
bridge the gap between art and the people by bringing those who naturally
will not have interest in Art to see some good works of Art and feel the taste of some high quality wines.
Ugo also said, Art and Wine exhibition are avenue of expanding the frontiers of art product and creativity because art and wine are both products of creativity that it takes a lot of creativity and diligent to produce art and good quality wines..
In his words, “Wine mature with age same thing with art, now you can see
the both have similarities. We are using this medium to break the barriers and expand the frontiers”
On the other hand, we are using art and wine exhibition to launch and unveil bigger project called face of art coming up soon. Face of Art is a concept that will be seeing us creating and projecting Art in global platform for the promotion of Africa art particularly, Nigeria Art.
An exhibition artist Usman Alvin, who were at the exhibition ground to show case his works of art said the programme will give them opportunity to tell the world what they are made off and called on government to
collaborate with them and direct interest in the work of Art.
Another participant at the exhibition Eugene Omoruyi a mixed media Art in painting also gave more insight about the exhibition.