'Michael Armitage: The Promise of Change' by Thibaut Wychowanok
2026
At Venice’s Palazzo Grassi, Kenyan artist Michael Armitage is showing paintings of a rare intensity, which immediately seduce the eye with their virtuoso compositions and handling of colour. Inspired by contemporary East African life, his scenes rendered in the grand European tradition constitute a world at once grounded in reality and entirely hallucinations.
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