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How does Antonio Oba transform a tragedy into a playful scene of cinematic vice in his painting Angelus 2022?                                    (detail -A.Oba,Angelus ,2022 oil on canvas ,private collection)    Quotations abound in Oba's painting, but he brings something unexpected: the collapse of a fire escape as it is known, Fire on Marlborough Street, a monochrome photograph by Stanley Forman, won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976 and the title of World Press Photo of the Year.  Stanley Forman ,Fire on Malborough Street,1975, Monochrome Photography .  The photograph, taken with a motorised camera, shows the tragic scene of 19-year-old Diana Bryant and her 2-year-old goddaughter Tiare Jones, who supernaturally survived the fall much thanks to Diana's body cushioning the toddlers descent, falling from a burning appartment on Marlborough Street in Boston, J...

EXPOSITION; Antonio Oba, Rituals of care 16 November - 16 February Centre D'art Contemporain de Geneve, Switzerland Curated by : Andrea Bellini Reported by: Nazli Kok Akbas NKA Art Reports Switzerland-France-Istanbul Antonio Oba  ,  Uma Alegoria Morta-Vida :Coragem , 2024,Oil on canvas     "Moving the earth, harvesting, knowing plants by smell, by name, by the design of the leaves, seeing animals, catching runaway chickens, helping with the housework, grating corn to make pamonha, walking silently in the woods… An imperial inheritance connects me to the departed ones." Antonio Oba                                                                 ...