Visual artist Dotun Popoola has expressed
anger at the state of a sculpture he created 10 years ago as his final year
school project at the Obafemi Olowowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Popoola said he had no problem that the
sculpture had been taken to the museum, but that the front of the piece was
removed, his signature and the date of execution cut off.

"What made him a professor are the books
that he read. The head is useless without something inside the cranium. I just
want art to be valued the way it should be; the way they taught us in school," he said.
The artist, who just came back from a
three-month residence programme in the US, said he was shocked when he saw the
image of what has become of the work on social media. He described the act as ”a
monumental embarrassment, an assault on my intellectual property. But, in a way
I want to sound like a trained child who was actually trained by a father and
when my father offends me, I want to be very cautious in the way that I tell
him that he has actually offended me”.https://bit.ly/2wKyFcz
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