Amadou Sanogo

Yusuf Durodola is a Guinness World Record Achiever (Largest Painting by Number) for Ecole de dessin, Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently a painting lecturer at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka where he groom the young talents. He is the founder/Artistic Director of Artegun Foundation, a platform vision to nurture the creativity of young artists and offer a difference in curative experience strategically to promote art.

He is a change-provoking recycled artist, deeply thoughtful conversational painter, inspired performance artist, distinguished curator, and impeccable creative director. He is one of the most prominent and influential multimedia visual artists
in the Nigerian Art Industry.
He was born in Ibadan, Oyo State in 1979 and attended Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka where he received a Nigerian Certificate of Education and majored in Painting and Graphics. He proceeded to the University of Lagos where he obtained his degree in Visual Arts and attained his Master’s degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.
His absorbing paintings were included in the 2022 Netflix Limited Series: Blood Sisters. They are also widely collected by the Nike Art Gallery in Lagos, Abuja and London, Madlozi Art Gallery, South Africa, Alexis Gallery, Lagos, Perseus Gallery, New York, Shayee Gallery New York, and private individual collections around the world. His paintings are everlasting archives dedicated to protecting African traditions and mores; Nigerian heritage and culture with particular emphasis on his indigenous background as a Yoruba offspring.

Yusuf is an integrative multimedia recycled art specialist with boundless power to refine hazardous materials that are constantly bullying humanity’s longevity.
His recycled art concepts, styles, and visual ideas are distinctively developed from his in-depth cognizance of the pattern of individual irresponsible behavior and manufacturers’ antipathetic thinking opposing the fight for the reduction in usage including improper creation of the elements that make up his mixed media waste recycled art pieces.
Being a prolific painter, he deliberately, from the discarded materials “souls” as he refers to them discovered selects the appropriate color variety that can convey effectively his overall aims and interest in the created recycled works. This he does marvelously that the recycled art pieces so convincingly look like paintings in their divergent perceptible dimensional forms.
Using the “paints” available from the “souls” he encounters, Yusuf structures an image, design, relief, representation, or ornamental piece that rhetorically questions the negligent human acts towards waste management.
His stimulating recycled works have been exhibited locally and internationally. His recycled works headlined the first found objects art festival in Nigeria: ARTMIABO INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL 2022. He was featured in the first upcycled recycled group art exhibition in Nigeria, Fact File 2021, by Thought Pyramid Art Centre.