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Sculpture : Ousmane Sow, le maître et ses modèles
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À l’occasion de l’inauguration, le 5 mai prochain, de la Maison Ousmane Sow à Dakar, au Sénégal, France 24 revient sur les sources d’inspiration du grand sculpteur sénégalais décédé en 2016. Outre les lutteurs noubas ou les guerriers masaïs, de nombreuses figures historiques ont servi de modèles à l’artiste. Tour d’horizon en images.
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À Dakar, dans le studio-musée de l'artiste Ousmane Sow
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L'équipe d'À l'affiche vous emmène à la découverte de l'atelier et de la demeure du grand artiste sénégalais Ousmane Sow, tous deux transformés en musée à Dakar. Nous nous pencherons aussi sur une question qui secoue régulièrement le monde de l'art : la restitution des trésors pillés à l'époque de la colonisation. L'Éthiopie monte aujourd'hui au créneau. Nous finirons cette émission en musique avec des foules qui se pressent pour vibrer sur des rythmes électro teintés de sonorités arabes.
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Ousmane Sow Awarded With French Honour
Senegal sculptor Ousmane Sow has become the first African to join France's Academy of Fine Arts.
The 78-year-old, considered one of Africa's foremost artists, dedicated the honour to all of Africa...and the great man Nelson Mandela at a Paris ceremony on Wednesday.
A minute's silence for the anti-apartheid hero was also held.
Sow captured the world's attention in 1999 when his larger-than-life wrestler sculptures were exhibited in Paris.
His latest ongoing series of work, entitled Great Me, features historical figures including Charles de Gaulle as well as Mandela.
His sculpture of the former South African president - made out of a mixture of clay and rubber - features Mandela as a goalkeeper extending his hand to keep corrupt African heads of state at bay.
Born in Dakar, the artist left for France in 1957 where he obtained a diploma in physiotherapy.
Apart from a three year break in his home country, he made France his home for some 20 years before returning to Senegal in 1984 to make sculpting his full-time profession.
His knowledge of anatomy would help define his works.
He began his series of muscular Nouba wrestlers in the late 1980s, before going on to create further series The Masai, The Zulus, The Peulh and The Egyptians.
The Battle of Little Big Horn, Sow's 35-piece series, was first exhibited in Dakar in 1999 as a preview to the Paris exhibition on the Pont des Arts.
Part of the series was also featured at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2003.
In June, Sow opened a retrospective of his work in Besancon, eastern France, which was to be his last exhibition in his adoptive country before moving all his works to a museum he is building in Senegal.
The artist said sculptures of Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and Gandhi would also be included in his gallery of men who helped him not despair of mankind.