Biografie von Ousmane SOW (1935-2016)

Personal data


Birth : 1935 - Dakar, Senegal
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Senegal

Address

Dakar, Senegal

Representatives

Le P’tit Jardin – 10 impasse Chandon – Paris, France

Professional data


Work and Life

1966:Sculpture becomes his only profession, he settles down in Dakar, Senegal.

Work


Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume :

Subject

war
human being
communities

Works

Little Big Horn
Date of creation : 1998
Medium : Sculpture
 
Les Peul
Date of creation : 1993
Medium : Sculpture
 
Les Zoulou
Date of creation : 1990
Medium : Sculpture
 
Nouba couché
Date of creation : 1990
Medium : Sculpture
 
Les Masaï
Date of creation : 1989
Medium : Sculpture
 
La Danseuse aux Cheveux Courts
Date of creation : 1984-1987
Medium : Sculpture
 
Les Nouba
Date of creation : 1984-1987
Medium : Sculpture
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2004

Château de Malbrouck – Manderen, France
03/14/2004 – 05/23/2004

2003

Hôtel de Ville – Vichy, France
03/15/2003 – 05/11/2003

2001

Séries africaines
Musée des Beaux-Arts – Arras, France
12/22/2001 – 03/04/2002

National Gallery of Canada / Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada – Ottawa ON, Canada
06/22/2001 – 08/15/2001

Musée Dapper – Paris, France
04/26/2001 – 31/06/2001

Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
01/22/2001 – 03/30/2001

2000

Rétrospective
Quai Louis XVIII – Bordeaux, France
2000

Abbaye De Daoulas – Daoulas, France
2000

1999

Rétrospective
Place Jean Jaurès – Tours, France
1999

Mémorial de Gorée-Almadies – Dakar, Senegal
1999

Le Rectangle – Centre d’art de la Ville de Lyon – Lyon, France
1999

Rétrospective
Pont des Arts – Paris, France
1999

1996

Pont Neuf – Toulouse, France
1996

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Festivals

1966

Festival des Arts Negres
Dakar, Senegal
1966


Group exhibitions

2003

The American Effects
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York NY, United States
07/03/2003 – 10/12/2003

1995

Dialogues de Paix
Palais des Nations – Office des Nations Unies – Geneva GE, Switzerland
07/03/1995 – 10/26/1995

Campo – 46° Biennale di Venezia
Ca’Giustinian San Marco 1316 – Venice VE, Italy
06/11/1995 – 10/15/1995

1992

Documenta IX
Museum Fridericianum – Kassel, Germany
06/13/1992 – 09/20/1992

1990

Art Sénégalais Contemporain
Arche de la Défense – Paris, France
1990

1988

Les Portes de l’Afrique
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux – Bordeaux, France
1988

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Exhibition catalogues

1999

Ousmane Sow, le pont des arts
Publisher: Le P’tit Jardin – 10 impasse Chandon – Paris, France
Photographer: Soulé Béatrice – Paris, France
1999


Films

2000

Ousmane Sow, le soleil en face
Producer: Le P’tit Jardin – 10 impasse Chandon – Paris, France
Director: Soulé Béatrice – Paris, France
2000


Periodicals

2004

MONNIN Françoise – Ousmane Sow
in: Artension n° 16 p. 12
Caluire-et-Cuire, France
03/2004-04/2004

2003

NAKAMURA Marie-Pierre – Ousmane Sow
in: Art Actuel n° 28 p. 88
Paris, France
09/2003-10/2003


Video cassette

1996

Ousmane Sow
Producer: MNAM Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – MNAM Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou 19 rue Beaubourg – Paris, France
Director: Soulé Béatrice – Paris, France
1996

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