RETNA | Ludovico & Ludavico Turquoise & Pink Sporting Social Scene The oil painting tradition has

The oil painting tradition has always been bound up with questions of who is depicted and who does the depicting

the material values of the work aligned with the cultural values of its subject

the sculpture incorporating its surroundings into its own surface

Nigeria in 2000

RETNA | Ludovico & Ludavico Turquoise & Pink Sporting Social Scene The oil painting tradition hasRETNA (Marquis Lewis, b. 1979) Ludovico & Ludovico Turquoise & Pink Stone lithograph on BFK Rives paper Limited edition Ludovico & Ludovico presents RETNA's constructed script in a format that emphasises the architectural quality of his mark making: a symmetrical composition in which two passages of the artist's proprietary language face each other across the picture plane, creating a formal dialogue that mirrors the doubled title. The turquoise and