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CHIDY WAYNE
IN THE MIRROR
1st Anniversary book celebration
Friday December 13th - 6-9pm
Featuring a welcome gift, book signing 7pm talk
and limited edition prints for sale
In the Mirror is the first book to honor Chidy Wayne, a Barcelona-based, Spanish-Guinean imagemaker, whose practice spans painting, sculpture, illustration and music. Likewise, it is the very first book from the Creative Voyage imprint. At its heart, In the Mirror is a collaboration between artist and publisher that culminates in a celebration of the new, fine-arts focused chapter of Wayne’s creative career.
Photographs of Wayne’s work and world pair with texts from esteemed members of his community—the artist Donald “Drawbertson” Robertson, his gallerist Marie de Brouwer and the writer and activist Noor Ammar Lamarty—and an in-depth conversation with the Creative Voyage team. Together, they explore the universal themes of existence and identity so prevalent in his first three major series, Ego, Pugna and Pugnator. In the end, these pages come together to create more than the typical monograph. Wayne, after all, puts a mirror to his universe, providing an intimate look into his studio, processes and more broadly, the human experience and self-reflection that shapes it all.
Born and raised in Castellón, Spain, Chidy Wayne is a Barcelona-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice includes everything from painting to sculpture and music. Formerly entrenched in the world of commercial illustration, where he built a diverse roster of clients including Kinfolk magazine, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Nike, Wayne’s focus has recently shifted to fine arts. He now seeks to create aesthetic and conceptual work stripped of gratuitous strokes. Influenced by the artistic avant-garde and his own ancestral and cultural background, Wayne encourages a dialogue between the primitive, the traditional and the contemporary.
