Coronation Art Gallery yesterday opened The Value of Belief — Collectors, Conviction and the Making of Cultural Futures, welcoming guests to an evening that marked the beginning of its most ambitious exhibition programme to date.
The opening at Coronation Plaza, Victoria Island, Lagos, brought together senior executives across the Group, business leaders, collectors, artists, and media, and was graced by Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Chairman of Coronation Group, and members of the board, reports The Nation.
The exhibition presents works from the private collections of three distinguished Nigerian collector-patrons: Kayode Adegbola, Kola Aina, and Seyi Ajibola, whose decades of deliberate, conviction-led collecting have helped shape the contemporary Nigerian art landscape.
Each has invested not only in the works they acquire, but in the artists, communities and cultural infrastructure that allow African creativity to flourish.
Their collections, spanning painting, sculpture, and mixed media, reflect a long view of value that the exhibition frames as both a cultural and an investment argument.
The Value of Belief draws a direct line between the conviction required of a serious collector and the conviction at the heart of sound, long-term investment, positioning patronage and financial stewardship not as separate instincts, but as expressions of the same deeply held belief in human potential.
