Lot 53
Eria (Sane) Nsubuga
Ugandan, born 1979
Joy Ride to the City (Zechariah 2:8), 2014
Signed ‘SANE ‘14’ (lower right)
Mixed media on canvas
122 x 123cm
KES 195,000 – 300,000
USD 2,200 – 3,500
Provenance: direct from artist
Sold KES 206,624
Sane graduated from Makerere University in 2008 with a MA in sculpture from the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts. He currently lectures at the Department of Art and Design at the Ugandan Christian University in Mukono and practices painting, illustration and sculpture. Sane’s first solo exhibition took place at AKA Gallery in 2002. Since then he has had a succession of solo exhibitions in Kampala and exhibited at the KLA ART 012 (Kampala Contemporary Art Festival) in 2012, Milan Triennale in 2007 and the Florence Biennale in 2011. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Rahuset Exhibition Hall in Copenhagen, the Art Museum in Shanghai and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.