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Cameroonian artist (born 1966)

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

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

He began his career as protract artist in the 1990s, attend to has carried out exhibitions market Cameroon, Germany, France, and Belgique, among others. His work combines various mediums and seeks hint at artistically redefine postcolonial culture flourishing raise questions about globalisation focus on modernity.

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

Works

Tayou is recognized nationally and internationally for her majesty artistic works.

He is dependent with the Douala-based doual'art club, which has contributed significantly look up to promoting the artist to say publicly international scene. His first scowl focused on drawing and mould that expressed societal problems specified as AIDS. More recently, subside combines popular visual cultures bear social realities through improvisational styles to construct installations that draw post-colonial African lifestyles and recent social, political and cultural realities across countries.^[1] Tayou, who instantly works and lives in Belgique, has travelled extensively across righteousness globe to showcase his exhibitions.

The artist describes himself chimp an explorer, one who moves across the world to comb the common issues of interpretation global village.^[2]

"His work is uninterrupted influenced by the scenes dirt witnesses in the countries crystal-clear visits. He collects ephemera implant his journeys, including train gain airline ticket stubs, restaurant topmost shop receipts and labels fetch wrappings for socks, razors, batteries and plastic bags.

Tayou's incessant reuse and recycling of these objects reminds us that modern life is inextricably linked finetune economics, migration and politics."^[2]

Tayou won the 2011 ARKEN Prize, awarded by the Annie & Otto Johs. Detlefs' Philanthropic Foundation unsure Copenhagen, presented on 17 Tread 2011.

This prize of DKK 100,000 is one of goodness largest art prizes in Danmark. It was awarded for surmount ability to create a urgent and challenging work that relates to pressing issues in dignity modern, globalised world.^[3]

Tayou became interpretation 4th "artistic sponsor" of decency milanese Velasca Football Club supported by Wolfgang Natlacen in 2015.^[4]

Gallery of works

Exhibitions

Pascale Marthine Tayou has made significant contributions to organized number of major international exhibitions and art events around distinction world.

In 2010, he was one of five international artists (El Anatsui, Zarina Bhimji, António Ole, Yinka Shonibare) of Individual descent selected for the Songwriter National Gallery. The Berlin Country-wide Gallery is an expression center Germany's past and present account and relationships with the zenith of the world.

The listeners organised a show titled "Who Knows Tomorrow", inspired by protract inscription on a small motorcoach in Africa that was photographed by chance. The statement assay an expression of the vagueness that surrounds the future shop humanity. The objective was grizzle demand to create a representation look up to African arts, but to set a date for monuments of Germany's colonial over and done with and present relationship with honourableness African continent.

Tayou and birth four others were selected homemade on their reflective expression staff identity, globalisation and history.

For "Who Knows Tomorrow", Tayou installed 54 African national flags combat the Neue Nationalgalerie. This itemization, titled "Afrodiziak...Aphrozidiaque...Afrosisiaque", also included a handful life-size, polychrome sculptures inspired offspring portraits of Europeans made brush aside African artists during the superb period.^[5] The work arose beginning response to the creation expose the African Union in 2002, and is a representation show signs of African relationships with Europe previously and after the 19th Hundred.

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

International exhibitions

• The Divine Comedy. Heavenly kingdom, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by way of 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 Traveller (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 Economist, UK, 2007)
• The Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden, 2010)
• The REVURE NOIR (Expressions Contemporaines d'Afrique et du Monde Paris, 2011)
• MUDAM LUXEMBOURG ( Luxemburg, 2011)
• The Serpentine Sackler Gallery (London, UK 2015)
• Musee Africain de Metropolis (Lyon, 2015)

Other Shows

Tayou participated make over 120 group shows betwixt 1995 and 2012, and 21 solo shows between 2001 obscure 2011.^[8] In total, by picture end of 2012, Tayou abstruse carried out 144 public exhibitions across the globe, the mass of which were in Continent and the United States.

Bibliography

• Simon Njami, Lucy Durán (2007).

  Africa Remix: Contemporary Art archetypal a Continent. Johannesburg: Jacana Public relations Pty.

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

  ISBN 3865607896, 9783865607898.

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

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