Tag: African art interview
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For Omar Ba, the Canvas Is a Political Battlefield: “Art Is Not a Game. It’s a Form of Violence.”
The day everything changed, Omar Ba was sitting in a classroom at a technical school in Dakar, Senegal, facing an impossible assignment. Rather than hand in a blank page, he drew a figure being stabbed in the back. His mechanics teacher looked at the drawing, then at the student, and asked a simple question: “What…
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He Watched the Children Draw. Now He Teaches Them to Paint.
For more than two decades, the Ivorian artist Aboudia has painted the faces, symbols and urgent markings of childhood onto large canvases that now travel the global art circuit. Frequently compared — fairly or not — to Jean-Michel Basquiat, and shown at major international art fairs, he has built a visual language rooted not in…
Bridging Africa and The World Through Contemporary Art 