{"id":14987,"date":"2017-03-10T09:29:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T08:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14987"},"modified":"2017-04-18T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:05:58","slug":"akpan-sunday-jack","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/akpan-sunday-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"AKPAN, Sunday Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth: 1940,in Ibesikpo, Ikot Ide Etok Udo, Akwa Ibom State. Training: Apprenticed to Albert Edet Essien to learn the trade of bricklaying, although he preferred sculpting; no formal training. Profile: Full name, Sunday Jack Akpan; began working full-time as a cement sculptor, 1972; makes naturalistic commemorative figurative sculptures in cement; assisted by a relative, Aniedi Okon Akpan, born in 1916 in Itiam Etoi, Akwa Ibom State, whose cement sculpture, &#8220;Lowe,&#8221; is in the Iwalewa-Haus collection, Bayreuth, Germany. Group Exhibitions &#8220;Sculptures en Ciment du Nigeria,&#8221; Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, Calais, France, November 26-December 15, 1985. &#8220;Zementskulpturen aus Nigeria,&#8221; Stuttgart, Germany, 1988. &#8220;Magiciens de la Terre,&#8221; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, May 18-August 14, 1989. &#8220;Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa,&#8221; National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, October 25, 1989-September 3, 1990. Bibliography Nicklin, Keith &#038; Jill Salmons. &#8220;S. J. Akpan of Nigeria,&#8221; African Arts(Los Angeles) 11 (1): 30-34, October 1977. illus. (some color). Sculptures enCimentdu Nigeria, deS. J. Akpan andA. O. Akpan: 26 Novembre-15 Decembre 1985; [exhibition held at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, Calais, France]. Paris: Association d&#8217;Action Artistique, [1985]. 47pp. illus. (some color). Zementskulpturen Aus Nigeria: S. J. AkpanlA. O. Akpan, Stuttgart, 1988; [exhibition held in Stuttgart, 1988]. Stuttgart: Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, 1988. 70pp. illus. (some color). Magiciens dela Terre; [exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, May 18-August 14, 1989]. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1989. 271pp. Guideri, Remo &#038; Liliana Albertazzi. &#8220;An Anthropologist Discusses the Cultural Ramifications of &#8216;Magiciens de la Terre&#8217;,&#8221; Contemporanea (New York) 2 (5): 62-63, July-August 1989. illus. (color). [Discussion with Andre Magnin, Aline Luque and Mark Francis]. Albertazzi, Liliana. &#8220;The Magicians Convene In Paris,&#8221; Contemporanea (New York)2 (5): 54-61, July-August 1989. illus. (color). Cole, Herbert M. Icons: Ideals and Power in theArt of Africa; [exhibition held at the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, October 25, 1989-September 3, 1990]. Washington: Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Press, 1989. 207pp. illus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14987","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14987"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}