IESA Novotel Art Project #1 / Movement & Displacement
1° DIARR – DIARR Passage
Camara Gueye
Curation
Hafida Jemni Di Folco
“Enter the graphic and pictorial world of Camara GUEYE with the discretion of a lost and curious traveler pushing open the door of a stranger in the shadow of his colorful dreams. PIERRE JACCAUD”
Mapping a Life…
These are acrylic paintings on canvas, in large or intermediate formats.
At first glance, one takes ownership of the direction of the work. One perceives pathways with loose or tight mesh, cleared or blocked by voluminous entities or not. An atmosphere confirmed by rich “movements,” by recurrences that return, swell, deflate and disappear like an obsession.
Assertive lines unfold into patterns (real or imaginary consumer objects) that run across the canvases. These forms outline floating entities, like mobiles that meet or cross a few shapeless masses, bearers of other stories, or mere imprints, which they cross, no doubt in search of a stable path.
The “Passages” series is a tale in itself, of a perceptible musicality, whose scores combine incoherent or concordant notes comparable to the echo of a human existence, punctuated by breaks and new beginnings like waves.
Hafida Jemni Di Folco
Biography of the Artist Camara Gueye
A Senegalese artist born in Bignona, who graduated top of his class from the Beaux-arts de Dakar in 1997, his selection in 2000 at the Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art immediately boosted his international career. In 2005 he perfected his ceramics at the European Ceramic Center in Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Quickly spotted by a Dutch collector, who opened the doors of Europe to him, he was invited to several residencies. He has taken part in numerous editions of the Dakar Biennale, Dak’Art in and off, at the World Festival of Black Arts, in Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, in Paris, notably at the Musée Dapper during the exhibition “le Sénégal contemporain,” in Switzerland - Geneva & Zurich - in Germany, in Liège, Brussels, in Austria, in Spain, in London, in Tripoli L dencophonie, in Canada, in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington, & Shenzhen.
He is collected notably by Europeans and Americans, institutions & foundations, Dapper, Tilder, the World Bank Washington, etc. In April 2006, one of his works was acquired by the French state and in June 2009, another of his creations was acquired by the Chinese state, in Shenzhen. Camara Gueye lives and works in Dakar, a city present in his paintings. “Amadou Camara Gueye’s work is an urban stroll through those neighborhoods where great misery and small joys, ugliness and vertigo, violence and tenderness are piled together pell-mell in an improbable kaleidoscope” (S. Sankalé).
Camara Gueye is a major figure of the Senegalese art scene.
In 2018 Dak’art 2018 L’Atelier Résidence Lakaze, Dakar - In 2019 The View From Here, Contemporary Perspectives From Senegal, a traveling group exhibition in the USA
Contact: acamaragueye@hotmail.com