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The World Wide Web exhibit by multi-media artist Rubadiri Victor opens at the 101 Art Gallery, Newtown, Port of Spain on July 17 from 5-9 pm. The exhibit, consisting of 77 paintings and objects spanning a number of Victor's series, will raise funds to go towards the artist's Season of Anansi Folklore Festival bills.
The exhibit will run until July 21 from 8 am-5 pm with special night events on Friday and Saturday.
[caption id="attachment_1166965" align="alignnone" width="599"] West Indies Bowler Kaleidoscope -[/caption]
The World Wide Web exhibition also officially launches the Anansi Goes to England initiative. After a successful third year, Victor’s Season of Anansi has been invited to bring its entire programme to Liverpool, England for Black History Month in October. The offer has been extended by the Merseyside International Centre of Carnival Arts + Black Innovation (MICCABI) through former son-of-the-soil- the award-winning artist Addae Gaskin, who is creating a series of cultural interventions in Liverpool.
“This represents an extraordinary opportunity for brand Trinidad and Tobago and our creative industries as the Anansi festival is expected to take place in Liverpool, Luton, Leeds, and London intersecting with multiple institutions like schools, universities, libraries, Museums, theatres, community centres, performing arts troupes, etc. Although MICCABI is paying some of the bills there are still significant expenses to be met as all aspects of the Anansi Folklore Festival are crossing the Atlantic: from the schools storytelling tour to the re-staging of the play Anansi and the 10 Dragons; from the bookstore reading tour to the multi-media exhibition The Black Infinite: the Global Rise of Afro-Futurism. The World Wide Web exhibition will also feature a retrospective on the just concluded Season of Anansi Festival 2025."
[caption id="attachment_1166966" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Guardian Angel of the Refugees -[/caption]
World Wide Web is Rubadiri’s 11th one-man exhibition and his second in the historic Boscoe Holder Studio at Gallery 101. The exhibition includes work from five major series in Victor’s ongoing work. One is the Crucial Arch Angels series which features massive paintings of blue-skinned contemporary Caribbean arch angels with reparative portfolios. These include paintings like Our Guardian Angel of the Refugees and The Angel of Abundance Collects the Wealth to Redistribute it Equitably. There also are some paintings from the Adventures of the King of the Wizards series which visualises the legendary calypsonian the Mighty Shadow as a super-hero, Master Wizard in various adventures.
[caption id="attachment_1166967" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The Beginning of the Maroon Republic -[/caption]
Another popular series is Victor’s portraits of West Indies cricketers called West Indies Cricket Warriors. One major series being shown for the first time completed is the Infinite Jouvay series, which features a series of canvases depicting the journey of "Jouvay" from Africa to Trinidad and then the world. The series envisages ancestral masquerades baptising a tribesman in West Africa in blue paint, then entering him to travel across the Middle Passage during the evil of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade so that his descendants would have a superpower within them to survive the horrors of the West.
“My work has always been for all audiences. I’m inviting the public to come out and see the work- especially young people at home on vacation from school. Art is for everyone,” Victor said.
For more information contact Rubadiri Victor at (868)797-0949 or follow rubadirivictor on IG
 
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