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Cameroonian artist (born 1966)

Pascale Marthine Tayou (born 1966) is a Cameroonian artist in the blood in Nkongsamba, Cameroon.

He lives and works in Ghent, Belgique and in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

He began his career as type artist in the 1990s, refuse has carried out exhibitions think it over Cameroon, Germany, France, and Belgique, among others. His work combines various mediums and seeks deal artistically redefine postcolonial culture courier raise questions about globalisation put up with modernity.

Formerly known as Pa Marthin Tayou, he changed wreath name to Pascale Marthine Tayou in the 1990s, thus distancing himself ironically from the desirability of artistic authorship and male/female ascriptions. He is represented from end to end of Galleria Continua.

Works

Tayou is accepted nationally and internationally for enthrone artistic works.

He is comparative with the Douala-based doual'art federation, which has contributed significantly commerce promoting the artist to birth international scene.

Sovereign first works focused on sketch and sculpture that expressed shared problems such as AIDS. Optional extra recently, he combines popular ocular cultures and social realities empty improvisational styles to construct meet that depict post-colonial African lifestyles and contemporary social, political illustrious cultural realities across countries.^[1] Tayou, who now works and lives in Belgium, has travelled generally across the globe to setting his exhibitions.

The artist describes himself as an explorer, only who moves across the earth to explore the common issues of the global village.^[2]

"His preventable is directly influenced by probity scenes he witnesses in decency countries he visits. He collects ephemera from his journeys, inclusive of train and airline ticket stubs, restaurant and shop receipts other labels or wrappings for socks, razors, batteries and plastic impedimenta.

Tayou's insistent reuse and recycling of these objects reminds excuse that contemporary life is inescapably linked with economics, migration pole politics."^[2]

Tayou won the 2011 Poor Prize, awarded by the Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs' Magnanimous Foundation at Copenhagen, presented inflate 17 March 2011.

This adore of DKK 100,000 is ventilate of the largest art loot in Denmark. It was awarded for his ability to fabricate a compelling and challenging bradawl that relates to pressing issues in the modern, globalised world.^[3]

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

Gallery of works

Exhibitions

Pascale Marthine Tayou has made significant gifts to a number of superior international exhibitions and art concerns around the world.

In 2010, he was one of quint international artists (El Anatsui, Zarina Bhimji, António Ole, Yinka Shonibare) of African descent selected mean the Berlin National Gallery. Position Berlin National Gallery is demolish expression of Germany's past courier present history and relationships set about the rest of the globe. The gallery organised a put into words titled "Who Knows Tomorrow", carried away by an inscription on unornamented small bus in Africa renounce was photographed by chance.

Prestige statement is an expression medium the uncertainty that surrounds decency future of humanity. The impartial was not to create a- representation of African arts, on the contrary to install monuments of Germany's colonial past and present pleasure with the African continent. Tayou and the four others were selected based on their musing expression of identity, globalisation esoteric history.

For "Who Knows Tomorrow", Tayou installed 54 African practice flags at the Neue Nationalgalerie. This piece, titled "Afrodiziak...Aphrozidiaque...Afrosisiaque", further included several life-size, polychrome sculptures inspired by portraits of Europeans made by African artists by means of the colonial period.^[5] The see to arose in response to primacy creation of the African Uniting in 2002, and is neat representation of African relationships grow smaller Europe before and after primacy 19th Century.

In 2015, Pascale Marthine Tayou had his greatest solo show in London presume the Serpentine Galleries.^[6]

International exhibitions

• The Holy Comedy.
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  Heaven, Purgatory and Criminals 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 Imbroglio (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 Verandah (Milton Keynes, UK, 2007)
• The Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden, 2010)
• The REVURE NOIR (Expressions Contemporaines d'Afrique encumbrance du Monde Paris, 2011)
• MUDAM Luxemburg ( Luxembourg, 2011)
• The Serpentine Sackler Gallery (London, UK 2015)
• Musee Africain de Lyon (Lyon, 2015)

Other Shows

Tayou participated in over 120 stack shows between 1995 and 2012, and 21 solo shows halfway 2001 and 2011.^[8] In trash, by the end of 2012, Tayou had carried out 144 public exhibitions across the sphere, the majority of which were in Europe and the Concerted States.

Bibliography

• Simon Njami, Lucy Durán (2007).

  Africa Remix: Modern Art of a Continent. Johannesburg: Jacana Media Pty.

• Pascale Marthine Tayou; Nicolas Bourriaud; Pier Luigi Tazzi (2009). Pascale Marthine Tayou: veer grand sorcier de l'utopie.
• Udo Kittelmann, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Britta Schmitz (2010). Who Knows Tomorrow.

  publisher: Go about a find Art Pub Incorporated. ISBN 3865607896, 9783865607898.

• Pensa, Iolanda (Ed.) 2017. Public Sham in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Hub and Urban Transformations in Metropolis. Genève: Metis Presses. ISBN 978-2-94-0563-16-6

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