African Homage

TRIBAL INSPIRED ART

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Danse Fambeaux

  Although modest, this gris-gris sculpture “Danse Fambeaux” is a tribute to fabulous artist Dr John.

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Ancient Ritual

Discovering ochres cliffs is, still today, an astonishment. In the early times of humanity, it must have been taken as a gift from the gods…

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Traces - Addé

A contemporary sculpture and a prehistoric artefact share in common, the will to leave a trace as the trace of a will.

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ARMAN (1928-2005) Multitude Twins, 1989 Accumulation de jumeaux Ibedji  (Yoruba).

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Morphogenesis II - Addé

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Morphogenesis I

Each and every structure is composed of elements. How those elements assemble to complete a form, is the fundamental principle of Morphogenesis.

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Soul of Sacrifice - Addé

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Remains - Addé

An artwork, a sculpture released nowadays, is potentially vestigial as it might remain through time, until, one day, being exhumed and examined together with emotion, curiosity, and forensic science.

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Bass Sola - Addé

Bass is to music what sculpture is to painting. It carves and structures music, turning the air into volumes enhancing colours in space.

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Taming the untamed - Addé

This painted sculpture features a harmony of colours that are regarded as opposite, non harmonious. Yet they vibrate together...

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Punctus contra punctum ad Imitatio - Addé

A « strange smell of purple » could be another way to introduce this sculpture, as it offers an invitation to a synaesthetic form of creation.

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The Purple Variation 

Addé 2018

We are accustomed to seeing paintings on canvas. Here, the polychromy is done on volumes, therefore, slightly modifying the colours’ perception.

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Gris-Gris - Sculpture © Addé 2018

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Iwa - Sculpture Addé

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Star Dust - Addé 2018

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La Caprese Des Colonies (The Goat Tender Of The Colonies) by Charles Cordier

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Vénus africaine, par Charles Henri Joseph Cordier, après 1851, masque en plâtre patiné, H. 0.135 ; L. 0.11 ; P. 0.075

musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

©photo musée d'Orsay / rmn