Africa moans Benon Lutaaya, a prominent visual Artist, who passed on earlier this week.
Born in Uganda, Benon Lutaaya was a Johannesburg-based visual artist. He held a BFA with Education from Kyambogo University, Kampala.
Although known for his outstanding contemporary paper collage portraiture work, Lutaaya was a versatile artist, who equally worked with other mediums.
Unable to afford per art supplies when he started out professionally in 2010, Lutaaya improvised by venturing into recycled, found paper material gathered from streets to pursue his purpose as an artist, which positioned him further into one of the most sought collage Artist.
The waste paper material in his work communicates the vulnerability of human life. And through his collage techniques, he aims to comment on and raise many fundamental questions about the complexity of human conditions today.
Lutaaya’s works offer some approach of his own personal space and identity in the world and how the latter has been formed, shaped and manipulated, sometimes torn, sometimes glued as intensely chiseled by his creative process. His technique reveals layers of constant manipulation, exploration and approximations in the application of the medium he opts to use to construct his forms. These layers are purposefully interspersed with elements of intervention and disturbance which acts as a blur to fixed ideas and questions the way identity gets constructed.
Check out more of Lutaaya’s Art projects via his website;
https://www.benonlutaaya.com/gallery?fbclid=IwAR0BuKxLdh9l4s9IqLI8239OxfRiq0a33Y6okHHk1dZSbK6pxllIk0T8q2E
In his life time, Lutaaya has worked on several projects including individual and collaborative Art projects locally and internationally, which have left a solid mark for their uniqueness.
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