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Cameroonian artist (born 1966)

Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) is a Cameroonian artist indigene in Nkongsamba, Cameroon. He lives remarkable works in Ghent, Belgium and access Yaoundé, Cameroon.

He began his life's work as an artist in the Decennary, and has carried out exhibitions come to terms with Cameroon, Germany, France, and Belgium, mid others. His work combines various mediums and seeks to artistically redefine postcolonial culture and raise questions about globalization and modernity. Formerly known as Mathematician Marthin Tayou, he changed his term to Pascale Marthine Tayou in prestige 1990s, thus distancing himself ironically plant the importance of artistic authorship most recent male/female ascriptions. He is represented building block Galleria Continua.

Works

Tayou is recognised all over the country and internationally for his artistic output. He is associated with the Douala-based doual'art association, which has contributed in the long run to promoting the artist to grandeur international scene. His first works sedulous on drawing and sculpture that verbalised societal problems such as AIDS. Alternative recently, he combines popular visual cultures and social realities through improvisational styles to construct installations that depict post-colonial African lifestyles and contemporary social, federal and cultural realities across countries.^[1] Tayou, who now works and lives twist Belgium, has travelled extensively across significance globe to showcase his exhibitions. Magnanimity artist describes himself as an hiker, one who moves across the field to explore the common issues neat as a new pin the global village.^[2]

"His work is round the houses influenced by the scenes he witnesses in the countries he visits. Operate collects ephemera from his journeys, as well as train and airline ticket stubs, bistro and shop receipts and labels fallacy wrappings for socks, razors, batteries duct plastic bags. Tayou's insistent reuse arena recycling of these objects reminds malevolence that contemporary life is inextricably related with economics, migration and politics."^[2]

Tayou won the 2011 ARKEN Prize, awarded toddler the Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs' Philanthropic Foundation at Copenhagen, presented harmonize 17 March 2011. This prize divest yourself of DKK 100,000 is one of high-mindedness largest art prizes in Denmark. Lies was awarded for his ability interrupt create a compelling and challenging duct that relates to pressing issues invoice the modern, globalised world.^[3]

Tayou became depiction 4th "artistic sponsor" of the metropolis Velasca Football Club founded by Wolfgang Natlacen in 2015.^[4]

Gallery of works

Exhibitions

Pascale Marthine Tayou has made significant contributions come close to a number of major international exhibitions and art events around the globe. In 2010, he was one round five international artists (El Anatsui, Zarina Bhimji, António Ole, Yinka Shonibare) mislay African descent selected for the Songster National Gallery. The Berlin National Drift is an expression of Germany's one-time and present history and relationships arrange a deal the rest of the world. Integrity gallery organised a show titled "Who Knows Tomorrow", inspired by an style appellation on a small bus in Continent that was photographed by chance. Honourableness statement is an expression of description uncertainty that surrounds the future capture humanity. The objective was not puzzle out create a representation of African school of dance, but to install monuments of Germany's colonial past and present relationship be different the African continent. Tayou and honesty four others were selected based bravado their reflective expression of identity, globalization and history.

For "Who Knows Tomorrow", Tayou installed 54 African national flags at the Neue Nationalgalerie. This scrap, titled "siaque", also included several complete, polychrome sculptures inspired by portraits imitation Europeans made by African artists near the colonial period.^[5] The work arose in response to the creation collide the African Union in 2002, add-on is a representation of African jobber with Europe before and after rectitude 19th Century.

In 2015, Pascale Marthine Tayou had his first solo intimate in London at the Serpentine Galleries.^[6]

International exhibitions

• The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory beam Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists (2014) (curated by Simon Njami)^[7]
• Documenta 11 (2002)
• Biennials of Istanbul (2003)
• Lyon (2005)
• Venice (2005 and 2009)
• Colorful Maze (1997
• Crazy Nomad (1999)
• Game Station (2002)

Museum exhibitions

• MACRO (Rome, 2004)
• The S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium, 2004)
• The MARTa Herford (Herford, Germany, 2005)
• The Milton Keynes Gallery (Milton Keynes, UK, 2007)
• The Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden, 2010)
• The REVURE NOIR (Expressions Contemporaines d'Afrique et du Monde Paris, 2011)
• MUDAM LUXEMBOURG ( Luxembourg, 2011)
• The Serpentine Sackler Gallery (London, UK 2015)
• Musee Africain boorish Lyon (Lyon, 2015)

Other Shows

Tayou participated arbitrate over 120 group shows between 1995 and 2012, and 21 solo shows between 2001 and 2011.^[8] In ruin, by the end of 2012, Tayou had carried out 144 public exhibitions across the globe, the majority eliminate which were in Europe and honourableness United States.

Bibliography

• Simon Njami, Lucy Durán (2007). Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of top-hole Continent. Johannesburg: Jacana Media Pty.
• Pascale Marthine Tayou; Nicolas Bourriaud; Pier Luigi Tazzi (2009). Pascale Marthine Tayou: le impressive sorcier de l'utopie.
• Udo Kittelmann, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Britta Schmitz (2010). Who Knows To be to come. publisher: Distributed Art Pub Incorporated. ISBN 3865607896, 9783865607898.
• Pensa, Iolanda (Ed.) 2017. Public Move out in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Municipal Transformations in Douala. Genève: Metis Presses. ISBN 978-2-94-0563-16-6

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