Ousmane Sow
| Ousmane Sow | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 October 1935 Dakar, Senegal |
| Nationality | Senegalese |
| Awards | Prince Claus Award, 2008 |
| Elected | member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, 2013[1] |
Ousmane Sow (born 10 October 1935) is a Senegalese sculptor of life-size statues of humans and groups of humans.
Life
Sow was born in Dakar, Senegal, on 10 October 1935.[2]:39 In 1957 he left Dakar to study in France, where he obtained diplomas in nursing and physiotherapy. He returned in 1965, came back to France again in 1968, to return to Senegal again in 1984 with the goal to start a practice in physiotherapy there.[3]
Work
Inspired by the photographs of the Nuba peoples in southern Sudan, made by Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), he changed his career in order to work from 1984 to 1987 on a series of sculptures of muscular Nuba wrestlers. These statues are bigger than the Nubas are in reality. During this process he developed a series of new techniques and materials. Subsequently, he made sculptures of the Maasai, a people in Kenya and Tanzania, and of the Zulu, a people that live mainly in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.[4]
He exhibited worldwide, like on documenta IX in 1992 and on the Pont des Arts in Paris in 1999.[4]
In the 2008 Dutch Prince Claus Awards, themed Culture and the human body, Sow was one of the eleven laureates, although not the Principal Laureate.[5][lower-alpha 1]
On 11 April 2012 Sow was elected a Membre Associé Etranger ("foreign associate member") of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France, replacing Andrew Wyeth.[6] He is the first black person to have been elected to membership.[1]
Notes
- ↑ The 2008 Principal Prince Claus Award was presented to Indira Goswami.[5]:15
References
- 1 2 Valérie Sasportas (19 November 2014). 528.695 euros: Ousmane Sow pulvérise son record mondial (in French). Le Figaro. Accessed October 2015.
- ↑ Salah M. Hassan (1999). Native to Native: The Sculpture of Ousmane Sow. African Arts 32 (4, Winter 1999): 36–49+93. doi:10.2307/3337667 (subscription required)
- ↑ Autobiography
- 1 2 [Prince Claus Awards Jury] (2008). "Ousmane Sow" In: 2008 Prince Claus Awards. Amsterdam: Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. Archived 4 May 2012. p. 86–87.
- 1 2 Jan Hoet (2008). "Exposing the Limitations of Categories". In: 2008 Prince Claus Awards. Amsterdam: Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. Archived 4 May 2012. p. 88.
- ↑ Ousmane Sow: associé etranger (in French). Académie des Beaux-Arts. Accessed October 2015.
Further reading and viewing
- Yolande Josèphe (1993) Ousmane Sow: Sculpteur d'Afriques (film, 24'). Paris: Sésame productions; Ateliers de diffusion audiovisuelle. (VHS video)
- Jean Loup Pivin, Pascal Martin Saint Léon, Jean-Marc Tingaud (1995). Ousmane Sow: Sculptures. Paris: Editions Revue Noire. ISBN 9782909571140.
- Alain Mabanckou (1999). Ousmane Sow: La sculpture du spectacle. Présence Africaine (159): 211–214.
- [Ousmane Sow] (1999). Ousmane Sow: Pont des Arts, Paris, 20 mars - 20 mai 1999 (special number of Beaux Arts magazine). Paris: Beaux Arts SA. ISBN 2842783093.
- Jacques A. Bertrand, Béatrice Soulé ([2006]). Ousmane Sow. Arles : Actes Sud. ISBN 9782742762118
- Béatrice Soulé (2006). Ousmane Sow (film, 26'); Ousmane Sow, le soleil en face (film, 55'). Neuilly-sur-Seine: Le P'tit jardin; Paris: Actes Sud. (DVD video)
- Fabrice Hervieu-Wane (2008). Ousmane Sow: Sculpteur d'histoires. In: Fabrice Hervieu-Wane, Éric Maulavé (2008). Dakar l'insoumise. Paris: Éditions Autrement. ISBN 9782746711235. p. 24–29.
- Nicolas Michel (2009). Ousmane Sow, l'anartiste. Jeune Afrique (2525): 86-87.
- Béatrice Soulé, Christophe Humbert (2009). Même Ousmane Sow a été petit. Paris: Le P'tit Jardin. ISBN 9782951376830.
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