From the art of Dali to the streets of Goya to the soul of Hiroki Nakamura to the innocence of Yukari Tamura to the flowing water style of Riyoko Ikeda. Anime with its rich tradition of telling the human story through drawing has garnered the world's attention, from the day the art was formed and has been given its due respect by all art lovers across the world. The genre of art has told a story that cuts through the timeless reigns of time giving the mortal a chance to dance with time forever. Through the alchemic gift of ceasing the unique gift of harnessing the immortal gift of dancing with imagination to perpetuity.
Artist George Condo would then further say, "Art is the truth and everything else is a lie". Anime has calcified itself and morphed into a marble statue of David in the hallway of Chronos. In turn, the gift of harnessing the infinite potential of preserving one's ideas to perpetuity art has given humanity an immortalized advantage over Chronos. Through Anime the human story is told anew and from a different infinite angle.
In this regard, Anime becomes a vehicle for furthering the conversation of decolonization and opening newer markets, and bridging salient partners who share a similar story.
Afro-Manga-Anime: A movement that has adopted the artistic style of Anime and Manga from Japan and China to tell the African story.
South Africa's NxHunter comes to the game with a unique signature to his style as an artist. His truth is spoken through his appreciation of the art and skill of telling the African story. His artworks are evocative, curious, and brave.
The flow of his pencil, the burnt graphite on wood tells the emotionless tale of the honesty NxHunter invests in his craft of preserving the essence of Art being told through harnessing the discipline of expression from the East.
His curiosity resonates with the gritty brave curious rapping style of the 90s pioneered by RZA, GZA, OLD DIRTY BASTARD, Ghostface Killah, and Inspector Deck the alchemic fusion of expression in NxHunter's pencil tells an African story that understands its reality, its fate and its perspective when it comes to solving the issues faced by the urban African. Such issues are rent, depression, and fixed melancholy, among other evocative feelings that dare to visit the mind the seek an understanding of reality through art.
The pioneering feat of the Wu-Tang Clan brought about a unique sound that is appreciated by those that seek to understand the African from an alternative angle. The Transcultural artist's work is one to keep on popping in time and time again. You never know what revelations may come your way, as art tells the human story. NxHunter's work tells an alternative African story inspired by a transcultural utopia.
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