When? : October 5th-9th, 2016
Where?: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA

Info :
Bio (pdf)

www.ernest-duku.com
www.1-54.com

Parole d’Ombre Amulettissimo @ Code A, Parole d’Ombre Amulettissimo @ Code JC, Parole d’Ombre Amulettissimo @ Code M etc.
What are the colours of our words? Shadow, the explicit sign of the absence of light, bears the expression of our words. Beyond childhood, does each human being hold his world over his head in relation to the education received in order to gain access to knowledge?
This series of works strikingly shows the various changes we are faced with over time. Questioning, examining our inner homes and growing up partly fed by the innocence of childhood, which allows us to obtain light.

Childhood is only the beginning, the base of our becoming. It is fed by our relationships with others, by our environment, by the education given to us, by the various readings of our symbolic universes colliding with each other in a place where acquired and innate are intertwined.

What exactly nourishes us in terms of symbols that shape our knowledge, particularly when religious symbols start to intervene? The answer might be given by Ô Bee one @ Pik Assobaka JEMO shuffle and Ô Bee one@ Pik Assobaka Odioka shuffle. The religious symbolism within the bottles combines the idea of spiritual food blending with terrestrial food resulting in a joyous religious chaos.

As such in metaphors, Mbuya Pendé feeds on the image of a mask. The series of drawings on deep black paper evokes the narrative sources of ancestral spirituality. Minimalist like children’s works yet containing every element of the life to come, those firm white lines stand out from the intensity of the blackness with strength and determination.

 

© Ernest Dükü
Parole d’ombre amulettissimo @ code J.C. 2011
Baby doll, paper, wax, saw dust, acrylic, cotton yarn and sisal

© Sitor Senghor
Ernest Dükü
Ô Bee one @ Pik Assobaka JEMO shuffle. 2014
Drawing and collage on creased paper
Format H150 x L100 cm
(c)

© Sitor Senghor
Ernest Dükü
Anan Ya Bosson @ Isotope 5. 2016
Drawing on deep black paper
Format H29,7 x L21 cm

© Sitor Senghor
Ernest Dükü
Echoes from Sirius @ Anan Monin Shuffle. 2016
Drawing on deep black paper
Format H29,7 x L21 cm

© Sitor Senghor
Ernest Dükü
Bossons descendus de Sirius A. 2016
Drawing on deep black paper
Format H29,7 x L21 cm

When? : September 15th – October 15th 2016
Where?: 6 Mandel
6, avenue Georges Mandel
75116 Paris
Time: From Tuesday to Saturday 2:30pm until 7:00pm (except on private events days)
(closed on 16/09 – 27/09 – 6/10)

Info:
Bio (pdf)
Press release (pdf)

www.6mandel.com

Lucas Weinachter (1959) followed without any hesitation his passion for drawing and dropped his destined architecture path at the Paris Beaux Arts. The accurate and strongly defined lines are everywhere in his work, always showing the skeleton of his imaginary structures, the tales narrated in dotted lines, constant dreamlike situations where anonymous characters are simply self-reflective.

The fragility of the base material used in Weinachter’s work, mostly Japanese natural paper, fine, textured, live, frail yet elastic like skin on which lead pencil, charcoal, or ink, find its print like a tattoo. It is the fragility of our world but the message is far from being solemn. Nothing is perfect, but the dotted or loose lines open up, through their motion, the world of possible dreams.

The human body is always present in the works shown; inside/outside, upside/underneath, hidden/secretive, real/imaginary… it is the exposure, medically and mentally of our most intimate mechanisms.
Reminiscent of anatomic drawing, the work is always enhanced by stitches of cotton yarn, as well as many references to common medical codes (myology, blood vessels, nervous system), and culminates in imposing a geographic map of intimacy, where fantasy and diversions of meaning are intertwined.

Weinachter likes these lines, threads, wires, yarns… and uses them more and more often to show the scars of life in construction and deconstruction, the imperfections that need to be mended, underlying the meaning and enhancing the movement… These lines naturally guide us to surrender and self-examine, leading us towards a Baudelairean daydream.

 

© Sitor Senghor
The Anonymous (2016)
Acrylic on paper on canvas, cotton yarn, fabrics
Format: H200 x L150 cm

© Sitor Senghor
Decorated I (2015)
Acrylic, lead pencil, cotton yarn, fabrics on kraft paper
Format: H80 x L60 cm

© Sitor Senghor
Antlers I. 2016
Ink, acrylic and cotton yarn on Japanese paper
Format: H60 x L80 cm

© Sitor Senghor
Follower I / II. 2016
Lead pencil, colour pencil and cotton yarn on Japanese paper
Format H100 x L46 cm