Toure Aboubacar | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Toure Aboubacar
- France
Painter
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The urban atmosphere of Dakar is recalled in my works that express the closeness and bustle of the city.
Babacar grew up in Senegal, a member of the Bambara ethnic group (from Mali). This tribal life became one of his main sources of inspiration and he quickly developed a passion for graphic design, modelling and construction of any kind. At 20 years old, he decided to isolate himself in the bush to concentrate on what has always interested him: artistic creation. At 28 he arrived in France to live from his art.
Fascinated by architecture and especially walls (painted, tagged, aged by the time), Babacar is inspired by them and associates them. He creates an encounter between normally unrelated worlds, uniting them in his paintings. The walls express the opposing feelings of both imprisonment and protection. This mixture of a variety of constructions creates a harmonious patchwork which erases differences.
Attracted by the culture of ethnic groups in southern Senegal, Babacar painted the Bassaris with their costumes and colourful masks, and then the Niominkas (fishermen) in the south of Dakar. Another ethnic group also marks his works: the Fulani, nomadic herders moving to follow water and vegetation.
More recently, the urban atmosphere of Dakar where he was born is recalled in works that express the closeness and bustle of Dakar. His latest creations are of volumes, statues, totem poles, assembling materials and objects found randomly in life, relying on the mystical dimension in which Africa bathes. Babacar adopts different styles of painting according to the message he wants to convey: figurative painting or filiform characters which evolve in a more abstract setting.
Currently this artist is only exhibited in our online gallery.
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- 2014Rêve d'Afrique GallerySaint-Etienne, France
- 2011Exhibition at the Museum of African ArtLyon, France
- 2004Opening of his exhibition area (workshop and gallery)Lyon, France
- 1973BirthDakar, Senegal
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