Michael Armitage

About this book

Armitage, who was born in Kenya and trained at the Slade School of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, works between East-African and European traditions carefully selected and freely combined in works by the artist. Armitage's monumental oil paintings interweave political events, pop culture, social media, folklore and personal memories with mythology and dreamlike imagery. 'Michael Armitage - Account of an Illiterate Man' is the first solo exhibition by the artist in Scandinavia, presenting a series of key works as well as new works on loan from private collectors and major art museums. The exhibition is also the first to present Armitage's work in a site-specific installation based on the six millennia of art and archaeological artefacts in the Glyptotek's collections. The installation has been curated in a close collaboration between the Glyptotek and the artist himself. Exhibition: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (10.06 - 17.10.2021)