Tunga

The ex-governor who is to be arraigned at the High Court of Kebbi State, Birnin Kebbi, allegedly conspired with the then Commissioner of Finance, Mohammed Bello Tunga and the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Garba Rabiu Kamba to misappropriate funds that were meant for certain provisions for the successful conduct of the 2015 general election.

He identified those killed as Tunga siblings Abdul Asis, 12; Abdul Latip, 10; and Alih, 8.

In Tunga, the community leader of the area, Ibrahim Shaibu, denied allegations that the herdsmen were been harboured in the area.

The group show, curated by Lisette Lagnado, which also took place at MAM in June of '95, traced the erasure of the boundary between sculpture and drawing in the work of Artur Lescher, Mira Schendel, Tunga, Iole de Freitas, and Elisa Bracher.

To this group belong artists such as the late Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, Tunga, and Cildo Meireles; the innovative bossa nova musicians, such as Joao Gilberto and Tom Jobim, who combined cool jazz, American standards, and samba; the avant-garde, oppositional filmmakers of the cinema novo (Brazilian new cinema) such as Glauber Rocha, who made films such as Deus e o Diabo na Terra del Sol (Black god - white devil, 1964), Terra em Transe (Earth entranced, 1967) that combined the techniques of the nouvelle vague with popular Brazilian culture and a strong sociopolitical message; and writers such as Clarice Lispector and Guimaraes Rosa.

Of course, "Art from Brazil in New York" in no way pretended to give such historical background, though Oiticica's Cosmococa did begin to suggest a lineage in which to place the atmospheric installations of Meireles, Valeska Soares, and Tunga, which together gave the most coherent image of a group of family resemblances.

Tunga presents a model of subjectivity and of the body that is radically different from that found in the contemporary art to which we have become accustomed (at least the North American version).

The coming of an artist like Tunga, for example, would have been impossible without this trinity; likewise the arrival of Jose Resende and Jac Leirner--who, paradoxically, are better known today than their predecessors.