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Etiye Dimma Poulsen

  • Skill Category: Sculptors
  • Present Address: Paris, France
  • Country: Ethiopia
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Biography

Etiyé Dimma Poulsen (born 1968) is a Danish sculptor known for her work in ceramics. Poulsen, who has exhibited widely in Europe, Africa and North America, lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work is held in numerous museums, including in the collection of the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. Born in Ethiopia, she moved at the age of six to Tanzania and then to Kenya with her adoptive parents. They were Danes, and moved the family to Denmark when she was fourteen. There she studied art history in college and taught art in various youth programs. Initially focusing on painting landscapes using oil on canvas, her interest in creating sculpture spurred her move to France at 23 and she began working with clay. Poulsen’s figurative sculptures are often slim silhouettes colored with natural pigments. Her work takes its inspiration from traditional African art and the indigenous art of Oceania, but she emphasizes that her own varied experiences across continents are all important influences. “What really seduces me is the different variations of human features,” Poulsen remarks. “The more simple and sober my forms are, the more expressive they seem. If you take a close look at the sculptures, you’ll be surprised to find that the expressions on the faces are actually generated merely by a cracked line that traces an eye or a wrinkle….It seems as if exactly through corrosion and fragmentation, the opposite–life–emerges.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

Exhibitions – 2010: Galerie d’Haudrecy Knockke, Galerie Claudine, Legrand Paris; 2009: Galerie Geneviève Godard Lille, Willem Elias Woluwe Belgium, Galerie Strenger Tokyo Japan, Centre d’Art André Malraux Colmar; 2008: Galerie Strenger, Tokyo, Japan, Joie Lassiter Gallery Charlotte U.S.A, Pappirfabrikken Silkeborg Denmark, Parlement Européen, Charteaux d’Hardelay Les Herbiers, Womanhood Hood Museum New Hampshire, Worldbank Washington U.S.A; 2007: UNESCO Paris, Kolonienpaleis Tervuren Belgium, Musée Maurice Denis, Paris, D’Haudrecy Art Gallery Knokke Zoute Belgium, Wertz Contemporary Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, Galerie Claudine Legrand Paris, Galerie Elfie Bohrer Banstetten, Zurich, Switzerland; 2006: Skoto Gallery, New York, Galerie Capazza, Nancay, France, Centre Culturel Scharpoord Knokke, Belgium, Galerie des Emibois, Switzerland

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