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Soly Cissé, (b. Senegal, 1969) Signed `Soly 2013 DK` (lower right) Acrylic on paper 100 x 73cm (39.4
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Soly Cissé, (b. Senegal, 1969) Signed `Soly 2013 DK` (lower right) Acrylic on paper 100 x 73cm (39.4 x 28.7in)
Framed and Glazed
Soly Cissé, who was born in 1969 in Senegal, lives and works in the city of Dakar and is one of Senegal`s most celebrated artists. He has exhibited widely in Europe, the Americas and within Africa.
Despite his father, who was a medical doctor, fiercely objecting, Cissé attended the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Dakar, graduated top of his class and went on to show regularly in Dakar throughout the 1990`s.
As a young boy, Cissé drew on the X-rays that his medical doctor father brought back from work. Today he is still fascinated by light, transparency, and in the essence of colour. When painting, Cissé lights up a scene, uncovers a story, and frees characters from the darkness of a black uniform background. Intuitive rather than conceptual, Cisse`s painting combines a sensuality of touch that is born out of the aesthetics of Dakar as manifest in its music and textiles and the vibrancy of its multi ethnic trading culture. The cost of modernity is a common theme – the natural world being overrun by man`s artificial constructs – the animals of his childhood hunting days now running from urbanisation rather than the hunter`s arrow.
Soly has exhibited at the Dakar Biennale regularly since 2000 and was part of the highly acclaimed Africa Remix show in 2005. Click here to view Catalogue
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Soly Cissé, (b. Senegal, 1969) Signed `Soly 2013 DK` (lower right) Acrylic on paper 100 x 73cm (39.4 x 28.7in)
Framed and Glazed
Soly Cissé, who was born in 1969 in Senegal, lives and works in the city of Dakar and is one of Senegal`s most celebrated artists. He has exhibited widely in Europe, the Americas and within Africa.
Despite his father, who was a medical doctor, fiercely objecting, Cissé attended the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Dakar, graduated top of his class and went on to show regularly in Dakar throughout the 1990`s.
As a young boy, Cissé drew on the X-rays that his medical doctor father brought back from work. Today he is still fascinated by light, transparency, and in the essence of colour. When painting, Cissé lights up a scene, uncovers a story, and frees characters from the darkness of a black uniform background. Intuitive rather than conceptual, Cisse`s painting combines a sensuality of touch that is born out of the aesthetics of Dakar as manifest in its music and textiles and the vibrancy of its multi ethnic trading culture. The cost of modernity is a common theme – the natural world being overrun by man`s artificial constructs – the animals of his childhood hunting days now running from urbanisation rather than the hunter`s arrow.
Soly has exhibited at the Dakar Biennale regularly since 2000 and was part of the highly acclaimed Africa Remix show in 2005. Click here to view Catalogue
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Contemporary and Modern Art from Africa and its Diaspora
Specialist in charge: Ed Cross
To contact Ed Cross directly, email: ed@edcrossfineart.com
To contact The Auction Room, email Georgia Spray: georgia.spray@theauctionroom.com, +44 (0) 20 7499 4406
Shipping:
For all pre-sale and post-sale enquiries and to request a shipping quotation, please contact Connoisseur International, telephone: +44 (0)20 8572 2955, or email: connoisseur@theauctionroom.com
Absentee Bidding Now Open - Please register to bid
Private View: 17th October, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Public Exhibition of all works in the auction: 18th October, 10am - 3pm
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26 South Molton Lane, Mayfair
London W1K 5LF
