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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
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015
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
Tel
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+44 203 268 2101
Cell
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+44 7775 782 955
christian@sulger-buel-lovell.com
www.sulger-buel-lovell.com
Cape Town Tamzin Lovell Miller
Tel
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+27 21 447 5918
Cell
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+27 79 176 4292
tamzin@sulger-buel-lovell.com
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