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Before 2000, Peter Areh worked essentially as a banker, having
trained in Accountancy at University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus.
After trying out his hands in banking, the young adventurous
accountant switched over to elitist business of
art curatorial services and promotion. It was for this reason he
established the dynamic Pendulum Art
Gallery located at Lekki phase 1,Victoria Island, Lagos.
Asked how he left the profession of banking for gallery
business, Areh Said, “ What moved me into the gallery business
has been my love and flair for the arts. Right from my childhood
I have always appreciated human talents”.
"Nurtured in the serene city of Enugu and around the University
of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he attended the University Primary
School, Peter Areh would recollect that “Growing up, I lived
around art collectors and artists. So in the quest of trying to
leave a legacy I looked around and found out that art is one sure
vocation that embodied humanism, economics, and the pursuit of
happiness".
Nsukka and Enugu environments had helped to shape Areh's
consciousness. As a young boy, he had
encountered a number of monuments and artists around the city of
Enugu and Nsukka. The creative recollections of artists that
found expressions in such important sculpural monuments may
have helped to nurture the mind and vocational inclination of Areh
his future engagement with art as a gallerist.
There is something particularly interesting in the way Areh goes
about his gallery business. He understands squarely that he
treads on a dangerous turf. But it is here that his training in
the business school comes handy. Like he would say, "It is wise
to know that there is no easy business...” and this attitude to
business is reflected even in the name of his gallery, Pendulum,
which beyond its scientific signification, is also a metaphor
for the fleeting nature of able human enterprise.
In other words, to associate the name Pendulum with art talks about the
dynamics that is associated with art.
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