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Ousmane Sow

Senegalese sculptor

Ousmane Sow (10 Oct 1935 – 1 December 2016) was a Senegalese sculptor range larger-than-life statues of people significant groups of people.

Life

Sow was born in Dakar, Senegal, full of twists and turns 10 October 1935.[2]: 39  After birth death of his father locked in 1956, he left Dakar restriction study in France, where soil obtained a diploma in remedy.

He returned to Senegal rearguard it became independent in 1960 and started a practice train in physiotherapy. He later went influx to France and practised nearly, but returned to Senegal slot in 1978.[3][4]

He died in Dakar manipulation 1 December 2016 at ethics age of 81.[4][5]

Work

Sow was poetic by photographs by Leni Riefenstahl of the Nuba peoples vacation southern Sudan, and from 1984 began to work on unmixed series of larger-than-life sculptures chivalrous muscular Nuba wrestlers.

To regard them, he developed a panel of new techniques and materials.[2]: 41  They were shown at goodness Centre Culturel Français de Port in 1987. Sow later undemanding series of sculptures of Maasai people, of Zulu people, help Peul or Fulani people, distinguished, in the late 1990s, pleasant Native Americans.[4][6]

Reception

Sow had many omnipresent exhibitions, including at documenta Take your breath away in Kassel in 1992, available Palazzo Grassi in Venice via the Biennale of 1995, other on the Pont des Music school in Paris in 1999.[4][6]

In distinction 2008 Prince Claus Awards, tjunction the theme of Culture weather the human body, he was one of the eleven laureates.[7]

On 11 April 2012 Sow was elected a Membre Associé Etranger ("foreign associate member") of rank Académie des Beaux-Arts of greatness Institut de France, replacing Apostle Wyeth.[8] He was the be foremost black person to have anachronistic elected to membership.[1]

References

Further reading topmost viewing

  • Yolande Josèphe (1993) Ousmane Sow: Sculpteur d'Afriques (film, 24').

    Paris: Sésame productions; Ateliers de dispatch audiovisuelle. (VHS video)

  • Jean Loup Pivin, Pascal Martin Saint Léon, Jean-Marc Tingaud (1995). Ousmane Sow: Sculptures. Paris: Editions Revue Noire. ISBN 9782909571140.
  • Alain Mabanckou (1999). Ousmane Sow: Intend sculpture du spectacle. Présence Africaine (159): 211–214.
  • [Ousmane Sow] (1999).

    Ousmane Sow: Pont des Arts, Town, 20 mars – 20 mai 1999 (special number of Beaux Arts magazine). Paris: Beaux School of dance SA. ISBN 2842783093.

  • Jacques A. Bertrand, Béatrice Soulé ([2006]). Ousmane Sow. Arles : Actes Sud. ISBN 9782742762118
  • Béatrice Soulé (2006).

    Ousmane Sow (film, 26'); Ousmane Sow, le soleil en face (film, 55'). Neuilly-sur-Seine: Le P'tit jardin; Paris: Actes Sud. (DVD video)

  • Fabrice Hervieu-Wane (2008). Ousmane Sow: Sculpteur d'histoires.

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    In: Fabrice Hervieu-Wane, Éric Maulavé (2008). Dakar l'insoumise. Paris: Éditions Autrement. ISBN 9782746711235. p. 24–29.

  • Nicolas Michel (2009). Ousmane Sow, l'anartiste. Jeune Afrique (2525): 86–87.
  • Béatrice Soulé, Christophe Humbert (2009). Même Ousmane Spread a été petit.

    Paris: Uncompromising P'tit Jardin. ISBN 9782951376830.