2000-portes-fenetres-160x120cm.jpg Painting by Grand-Père

Born in Dakar in 1973, Amadou Tounkara lives and works between Senegal, France and Japan. After graduating from the National Fine Art School of Dakar (Senegal), he went to Tokyo where he followed successively courses of Japanese painting, then of graphic design and finally of digital textile printing.

He often represents doors and windows in his painting as he intend to create opening on what lies “beyond”, an “outside” regarding to an “inside” that is also part of our actuality: a pictorial mechanism to allow the artist and the spectator to commit to an assessment of our daily habits, history and cultural issues, signs and symbols and above all the transformations happening in our society.

But if this painting talks about diverse topic like immigrants, politic, specific architecture, etc…, it shows a great vitality of colors and gestures. Besides the philosopher we discover the artist; the dynamism of the political critic is in addition to a wonderful mastery of space and the matter itself of the painting.

Nicholas Mann
Ex director of the Contemporary Applied Arts and the Museum of Modern Art Limited

• Nationality: SENEGAL
• Date of birth : 1973
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Senegalese Artists