The_bantu
AFRICAN ABSTRACTION :MYSTICISM
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Nothing is absolute in art and especially in painting. Always in front of a prepared canvas The same questions come up: what am I doing? And who am I to fill a void with gestures that have become rituals? When one is African, there will be a blur to hide our true identity, attacked from all sides by a Western culture, the basis of our education. And in this whirlwind all artist whatever its field is in an obligation to make the share of the things to avoid the sacrilege. I do not leave for all that in a denial of what is done as regards plastic art but I draw rather a territory in the art with for materials, my first identity which remains black and African first and then our immense cultural heritage and vestige of the beginning of humanity. After 25 years of artistic creation I dare not be a pretentious giver of lessons in my field but, I think I have seen enough to speak about it with the greatest freedom that a man can enjoy in our time swirled by a technology without brakes . When I say don't do abstract art, don't do figurative art, or impressionism, or surrealism, or cubism, it's because I don't do it, and you go crazy claiming things that we don't do and that are not part of your story. I am descended like all black Africans from the great migration of the Bantu peoples, and my painting is a cultural appropriation based on a symbolism and a geometric ritual that I call: MYSTICISM.(the end)
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Nothing is absolute in art and especially in painting. Always in front of a prepared canvas The same questions come up: what am I doing? And who am I to fill a void with gestures that have become rituals? When one is African, there will be a blur to hide our true identity, attacked from all sides by a Western culture, the basis of our education. And in this whirlwind all artist whatever its field is in an obligation to make the share of the things to avoid the sacrilege. I do not leave for all that in a denial of what is done as regards plastic art but I draw rather a territory in the art with for materials, my first identity which remains black and African first and then our immense cultural heritage and vestige of the beginning of humanity. After 25 years of artistic creation I dare not be a pretentious giver of lessons in my field but, I think I have seen enough to speak about it with the greatest freedom that a man can enjoy in our time swirled by a technology without brakes . When I say don't do abstract art, don't do figurative art, or impressionism, or surrealism, or cubism, it's because I don't do it, and you go crazy claiming things that we don't do and that are not part of your story. I am descended like all black Africans from the great migration of the Bantu peoples, and my painting is a cultural appropriation based on a symbolism and a geometric ritual that I call: MYSTICISM.(the end)
- Nationality: SENEGAL
- Date of birth : 1975
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Senegalese Artists
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Galleries & Groups
Presented by 4 Art Galleries or Groups
Debetum
(Artists Association, United States)
Vdokhnovenie Inspiration
(Artist Collective, Russia)
Galeria Avila art
(Art gallery, United States)
Les 3 Dauphins
(Art gallery, France)
Achievements
Collective Expositions
2010
Exposition Au Fesman Iii (Troisième Festival Des Arts Négres)
DAKAR,
Senegal
2005
Passage Au Salonart Et Symbolisme ‘’ Au Couvent Royal De Saint-Maximin Ste Baume
LION,
Senegal
2004
Salon 2 Des Jeunes Artistes Plasticiens Du Senegal
THIES,
Senegal
2000
Exposition Adapt
THIES,
Senegal
Publications & Press
2014
Jeune Afrique N° 2807-2808
AFRIQUE,
Senegal
2014
Publication Sur Le Site Diaspora Afrcasunu
SUISE,
Senegal
Solo Expositions
2005
Exposition Harmattan St Louis
SAINT LOUIS,
Senegal
1998
Exposition Mixte Musée
THIES,
Senegal
1995
Exposition Cc Douta Seck
DAKAR,
Senegal
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Autodidacte je le suis,et pour moi la peinture ne peut pas s'apprendre entre quatre murs.Mais c'est plutot une prédisposition inéé chez tout individu.D'ou cette perpétuelle recherche qui doit rythmer la vie de l'artiste quelque soit son mode d'expression .et sans vouloir etre un donneur de leçon a mes confréres africains;je pense que notre peintures gagnerai d'avntage de nautoriété en se libérant des normes académiques trop lourdes a mon avis.car l'art est avant tout une expression libre des sens et non une recitation de leçon assimilée via le cours d'un prof s/art
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MYSTICISM_ART
Reviews and comments
Émotion puissante et magnifique.. Admirable.
power and love are my paint repect and Thank
Merci the bantu!!!! J'ai regardé vos oeuvres et lu votre présentation!!!!! Beau travail!!! Bonjours au Sénégal, que la force reste avec vous!!!
Très original et coloré ! bravo !!
ce tableau est entierement peint à la main
bonjour ndao
je viens de visiter ton site c est tres interressant j ai particulerement aime vos compositions tres bonne continuation encore une merci pour vos messages
aziz kacimi
calligraphe plasticien
Bravo pour votre travail et vive les arts d'Afrique.
Daniel Baise
Merci de votre message, a mon tour de vous encourager, votre travail est très interessant et original. Que 2005 vous apporte le succes. Thank you for your message, it is now my turn to encourage you,your work is very interesting and original. Wishing that 2005 will bring you succes.
Le chemin que vous avez opté est sans doute trés dur et plein d'obstacles si on tient compte de la complexité et des façettes de l'ART mais nous ne pouvons que t'en encourager et t'en féliciter. Nous sommes dernière vous!!!
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