To Dream, to Collect
Reference
b138df31
Year
2016
Medium
Paintings
Size
150 x 150 x 4 cm
59.06 x 59 x 1.57 in
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Artwork offered by
Galerie Chauvy, Paris
Category
Medium: mixed on canvas
About the Artist
1969 , Senegal
1969 born in Dakar, Senegal.
Soly Cissé is a painter, draughtsman, and sculptor from Dakar, Senegal. His paintings are at once pictorial and graphics, rooted in the culture of his hometown, and loaded with autobiographical content. Cissé creates fantasy worlds where figures emerge from chaos and disharmony. His figures merge animal and human forms into strange, improbable hybrids wearing mortuary masks as if they are deities of Cissé’s magical world. Linear patterns, checkerboards, and sequences of letters and numbers bring tension to his work, while also referencing both barcodes and mystical numerologies.
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Paris, 18, rue Grange-Batelière 75009 Paris
Created in 1997, the gallery represents the artistic currents of the immediate post-war period through the works of Hans Hartung, Jean Le Moal, Jean Miotte, Paul Jenkins, Artists like Karel Appel and Corneille as well as the representatives of the years 60: Caesar, Erro, Antonio Segui, Bengt Lindström. More recently, the works of contemporary artists confi...