When?: May 5-8, 2016
Where?: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York
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Senegalese women are often said to be the most elegant ladies of Western Africa. They are highlighted here in slender iron figures, Giacometti variations (himself influenced by African sculpture) though with a distinctive and personal emotional power of their own. Welcome Ndary Lo’s taarou, l’élégance sénégalaise, the black beauty praised by the griots.
© Sitor Senghor
Ndary Lo
Taarou 1
Welded Steel
Format H101 x L17 x D17 cm circa
© Sitor Senghor
Ndary Lo
Taarous group of 5
Welded Steel
Format H55 x L21 x D11 cm circa
© Sitor Senghor
Ndary Lo
Taarou 2 & 3
Welded Steel
Format H66 x L8 x D5 cm circa & H59 x L7 x D5 cm circa
Sagna is an eternal dreamer of his traditional homeland Senegal… baobab, boat, camel, cart, crane, cycle, effigy, hut, mask, minaret, pestle, sail, shade, silhouette, totem, tractor, truck … all surfacing from coloured backgrounds like visions from remote memories, from far away journeys, keys to his memory, daily life of his imaginary Senegal… a galaxy of individual and mixed cultural signs, universal and yet unhesitatingly personal.
© Sitor Senghor
William Sagna
Glances. 1989
Acrylic and pigments on canvas
Format H230 x L124 cm
© Sitor Senghor
William Sagna
Circle of life. 2015
Acrylic on canvas.
H177 x L136 cm
© Sitor Senghor
William Sagna
Sea travel. 1996
Acrylic on canvas.
H124 x L230 cm