New Works:
Because more twins are born in Igbo-Ora than anywhere else in the world, walking through the town might make you feel like you are seeing double. Almost every house has at least one set of twins.
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Alain Magallon Born – Paris 1962
Igbo-Ora is one of the most extraordinary discoveries in Nigeria. While Europe boasts of about 16 twins for every 1,000 births and the United States about 33 for every 1,000 births, statistics from a study by British gynaecologist, Patrick Nylander, between 1972 and 1982, recorded an average of 45 to 50 sets of twins per 1000 live births in the southwest.
The town, a small 80 kilometers from Lagos, is a sleepy town in Oyo state with a simple way of life, made up of mostly farmers and traders. It is considered the Twin capital of the world, and has the stone plinth that boasts of it.
My paintings are mainly influenced by pop art and mystical themes. The figurative subjects are painted in oil and acrylic and are inspired by history past and present whose anachronistic and metaphorical symbols contrast with the graphic backgrounds that are painted in acrylic. They are often represented in static and devoted or illuminated poses.
The goal is to produce a duality or imbalance between the neoclassical frozen or theatrical pose of the models and the association of the matter and the colours; mysticism is replaced by narcissistic tendencies
Sometimes the subject’s fascination with their own image tends to duplicate or multiply themselves like the proverbial Russian dolls.
Magallon has a devoted following with major collectors worldwide.
BA Hons Degree: Beaux Art Montpellier
Exhibitions: London, Paris & New York
Media: Acrylic background figures in Oil
BA Hons Degree: Beaux Art Montpellier
Style: figurative abstract
McNeill Gallery 