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CONTENTS

PÉLAGIE GBAGUIDI - THE ARTIST

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Career Highlights

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Paintings from the series El Mundo Sans Le Corps | 2015

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Drawings from the series El Mundo Sans Le Corps | 2016

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SOLY CISSÉ - THE ARTIST

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Career Highlights

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New Paintings | 2016

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Black Book Project | 2016

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Contacts

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THE ARTIST Pélagie Gbaguidi was born in Dakar in 1965 and is from Benin by origin. She graduated from l'É cole des Beaux Arts, Belgium in 1995, and currently lives and practises in Brussels, Belgium.

Gbaguidi defines herself as a contemporary griot. In the poetic sense, "the griot questions the individual in his own path as he absorbs the words of the ancients, re-modulates them like a ball of fat, then deposits it into the belly of the bypasser, with the ingredients of his time." In practice, the role of the griot is to; "break the rhythm of everyday life and incorporate into it, its share of eternity.”

Her recent exhibitions include Asylstadt Museum at the Stadt Museum in Munich in 2013 and 2014, the Divine Comedy curated by Simon Njami at the MMK in Frankfurt, in 2014, and at the National Museum of African Art, Washington DC in 2015.

El Iris de Lucy, at MUSAC 2016.

"As a painter, I am at an intersection between the material and in the immaterial. It has to do with

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the order of breath and the unseen. Working in such a space helps me to see a different reality and to decipher my outlook, as if I was turning transparent and that, at that very moment I could merge with my surroundings” Gbaguidi

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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015

2010

Acte Memorial Museum, Guadeloupe (acquisition of 100 drawings from series Code Noir)

Show off, fiac off Paris, Girot Gallery

Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists,

Apex pro, e.V Göttingen (solo show)

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art Washington, USA

2009

2014

National Modern Art Museum, Alger Panafrican Festival

Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, MMK

Ifa Stutgartt Institute

Museum für Kunst mordern – Frankfurt

Ifa Berlin Institute Dak'Art

Moroccan Pavilion Dak’Art Legitimate Abstractions

De Oude Berk, Amsterdam

2013

2008

Asylstadt Museum, Stadt Museum, Munich

IFAA Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem Nerthelands

Traces of Women, Villa des Arts Casablanca, Morocco

IFAA Afrika Museum Arnhem Nerthelands

SERIAL ATTEMPS of the New World, Gallery London

IFAA Exhibition Rentals, Hommelstraat, Arnhem Nerthelands

2012

Kevin Conru Gallery Brussels

Casablanca Biennale

Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar

Africa Africa, Meymac, France

Musical Exhibition, Royal Music Conservatory, Brussels

2011

House of Arts, Evreux, France

Around the Black Code, National Orchestra Belgique As it is Ancestral Space, Gallery Mojo Dubai 04

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2007

2004

Casa Africa, Las Palmas de Canarias, Spain

Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar

Individual exhibition, Factory, Krems Austria

A 3 Contemporary Art Night, Saint Sulpice, Paris

Black Fine Art Show, Atlanta, USA

Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France

Dockanema film festival, Mozambique

Profane Rites Sacred Rites , Bern, Switzerland

2006

Sacred Rites Rites Profane, Mexico

National Black Fine Art Show, New York, USA

2003

Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar

Bamako Photography Biennial

Museum of Temporary Exhibitions, Saint Brieuc, France

TradeWinds Gallery, Brussels

Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Rhizome , Espace d'Art Contemporain, Torcy, France

2005

2001

National Black Fine Art Show, New York

Biennial of African Photography, Bamako

CentreWallonie Bruxelles, Paris

Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Liege, Belgium Passages

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S E L E C T E D P U B L I C AT I O N S

2014

2006

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists

7th Biennial of Contemporary African Art Dak'Art " the visit is over" frame edition

2011

2005

As it is Ancestral Space Translated Identities

The Imaginary Pelagie RTBF was directed by Olga Baillif & Katy N'Diaye Link Inter

2009

Cultural Journal of Art and Literature

African Women MAMA Alger Slavery in Art and Literature

2004

Frank & Time Dak’Art, IFA Institut Berlin

News Impressions ( The Place Unique) International Feminist Art Journal , London, UK

2008

6th Biennial of Contemporary African Art Dak’Art

The Man is a Mystery ODDCC Côtes d'Armor Air

2003

Niederösterreich The Artist In Residence Africa Mirror Dak'Art

Recontre de la Photographie Africaine Bamako Le Monde

2007

2002

Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft n° 43 The Uncomfortable Truth

N.Paradoxa, International Feminist Art Journal, London, UK

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PÉLAGIE GBAGUIDI PA I N T I N G S F R O M T H E S E R I E S E L M U N D O S A N S L E C O R P S | 2 0 1 5

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Icon in Progress - Map | 2015 | Acrylic and Pigment on Canvas | 260 x 165 cm

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Icon in Progress - XL | 2015 | Acrylic and Pigment on Canvas | 260 x 165 cm

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Icon in Progress - Milk | 2015 | Acrylic and Pigment on Canvas | 260 x 165 cm

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Icon in Progress - Exit | 2015 | Acrylic and Pigment on Canvas | 260 x 165 cm

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Icon in Progress - After the Pink | 2015 | Acrylic and Pigment on Canvas | 260 x 165 cm

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Icon in Progress - Time | 2015 | Acrylic and Pigment on Canvas | 260 x 165 cm

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Icon in Progress - After Marron | 2015 | Acrylic and Pigment on Canvas | 260 x 165 cm

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PÉLAGIE GBAGUIDI S E L E C T E D D R AW I N G S F R O M T H E P R O J E C T E L M U N D O S A N S L E C O R P S | 2 0 1 6

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Naked Writing | 2016 | Colour Charcoal and Colour Pencil on Paper | 29 x 21 cm

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Naked Writing | 2016 | Colour Charcoal and Colour Pencil on Paper | 29 x 21 cm

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Naked Writing | 2016 | Colour Charcoal and Colour Pencil on Paper | 29 x 21 cm

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Naked Writing | 2016 | Colour Charcoal and Colour Pencil on Paper | 29 x 21 cm

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Naked Writing | 2016 | Colour Charcoal and Colour Pencil on Paper | 29 x 21 cm

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Naked Writing | 2016 | Colour Charcoal and Colour Pencil on Paper | 29 x 21 cm

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Selection from 73 Drawings | Naked Writing | 2016 | Colour Charcoal and Colour Pencil on Paper | 29 x 21 cm

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THE ARTIST Soly Cissé (1969), a mixed media painter and sculptor from Dakar, is one of Senegal’s most celebrated artists. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dakar in 1996.

Cissé’s artworks are profoundly inspired by and contextualized through his upbringing. He grew up during an epoch of transition, following Senegal’s period of social and political unrest, where art served as mode of social activism and self-expression for the disenfranchised.

His work, like a portal where the imagined and physical realms convene, intuitively explores notions of duality and repetition; tradition and modernity, the spiritual and the secular.

Cissé’s spontaneous painterly movements, textured accents and neo-expressionistic techniques eflect the dissolution of contemporary society’s moral thresholds, shifts attributable to globalization and modernization.

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Shapeless human characters distort into anthropomorphic shadows of the other self; identities lost in translation from the past to the present, and abstract lines and bold strokes of contrasting hues intersect, creating the layered configuration of Cissé’s mythical visions.

“I think and reflect a lot about humans and their relationships.

Relationships between humans, confrontation between humans and nature, humans and religion and then I challenge myself and experiment.” – Cissé 23

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2005

LE TRAIT, solo Sulger-Buel Lovell, London

Le Monde Perdu, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi

Africa Centre London

Pecci, Prato, Italy

2013

2004

Tornabuoni, Paris, France Galèrie des Tuileries, Lyon, France

ARCO 2004, Madrid, Spain

2009

2002

Solycolor, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France

Multicultural 2002, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

2008

Biennale DAK’ART, Dakar, Senegal

IFAN Museum, Dakar, Senegal

KuBa Kunsthalle, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

2007

2001

TRANS CAPE, Contemporary African Art on the move, Cape

Galèrie A TISS, Dakar, Senegal

Town, South Africa

Prix de la francophonie in Montreal,Canada

2006

1999

Africa Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent , Mori Art

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany

Museum, Tokyo Japan

1997

Africa Remix/Zeitgenössische Kunst einer Kontinents/

Centre culturel Francais, Dakar, Sénégal

Contemporary Art of a Continent/Art contemporain d’un continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany 24

S O LY C I S S É NEW PAINTINGS | 2016

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Chiens Dresses | 2016 | Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas | 150 x 150 cm

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Moto | 2016 | Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas | 150 x 150 cm

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Cite des Anges | 2016 | Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas | 150 x 150 cm

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Le Pacte | 2016 | Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas | 150 x 150 cm

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Les Inities | 2016 | Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas | 165 x 196 cm

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Chasse aux Esprits | 2016 | Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas | 165 x 196 cm

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Masques de Ceremonies | 2016 | Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas | 165 x 196 cm

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S O LY C I S S É BLACK BOOK PROJECT | 2016

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Page from Black Book Project | Acrylic and Pastel on Paper | 31 x 31 cm

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Page from Black Book Project | Acrylic and Pastel on Paper | 31 x 31 cm

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Page from Black Book Project | Acrylic and Pastel on Paper | 31 x 31 cm

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Page from Black Book Project | Acrylic and Pastel on Paper | 31 x 31 cm

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Page from Black Book Project | Acrylic and Pastel on Paper | 31 x 31 cm

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Page from Black Book Project | Acrylic and Pastel on Paper | 31 x 31 cm

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Page from Black Book Project | Acrylic and Pastel on Paper | 31 x 31 cm

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F O R E N Q U I R I E S P L E A S E C O N TA C T

London Christian Sulger-Buel

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+44 203 268 2101

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+44 7775 782 955

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Cape Town Tamzin Lovell Miller

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+27 21 447 5918

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+27 79 176 4292

tamzin@sulger-buel-lovell.com

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