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Pascale Marthine Tayou

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Born in 1966 in Nkongsamba, Cameroon, contemporary African artist Pascale Marthine Tayou presently spends his life divided between Yaounde, Cameroon and Ghent, Belgium. Tayou’s work is closely linked to the idea of travel. Objects, sculptures, installations, drawings, videos all have a recurring feature… they dwell on the individual moving through the world exploring the global village. His work does not confine itself to one medium or to a particular set of issues that he consistently revisits. Indeed he is able to demonstrate his ideology with international themes like individual and national identity and global consumption. He weaves forgotten histories and raked-up memories with contemporary imagination. Works are often produced in situ with objects and materials sourced locally. He displays a strong sense of craftsmanship and skill in his assemblages… mysterious forms are constructed from all sorts of found objects such as cloth, glass, organic matter, consumer waste, plastic, whatever is immediately at hand. His Poupee Pascale series are comprised of ritualistic objects fashioned after totemic sculptures of his ancestry. Glass, plastic, beads etc replace wood, nails and shells. These dolls open the way to a new form of modern fetishism. A lot of his art is monumental; large-scale pieces built for maximum impact, placed inside and outside. Wood often plays a significant role, sometimes used in its original form and sometimes crafted to be something else (like pointed colored pencils).

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Solo Exhibitions: Pascale Marthine Tayou, Malmö Konsthall (2010); Matiti Elobi, Château de Blandy les Tours (2008); Jungle Fever, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (2008); Zigzag Zipzak!, Galleria Continua Beijing (2007); Plastic Bags, Kunsthalle Wien, public space karlsplatz, Vienna (2006); Rendez-vous, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2004); Omnes viae Romam ducunt, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2004); Erection, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2002); Qui perd gagne, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2002); Somewhere, Galerie der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin (2000); Trafique, S.M.A.K., Ghent (1999); Crazy Nomad, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York (1999); Looobhy, Doual’art, Douala (1997); Le déballage, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé (1997); La chaise à Doual’art, Centre Culturel Français, Douala (1995); Transgressions, Centre Culturel Français, Yaoundé (1994).

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