PIASA presents, in partnership with ASPIRE auction house, a sale of African Contemporary Art on 14 February 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Abou Traoré goes beyond the automatisms of local crafts to question and expand the tradition of the practice of bronze in favour of a more artistic production. The result of his work is a synthesis between the kinship with the tradition of Bobo masks inspired by animal forms and a modern and contemporary syncretism.
Traoré trains many young bronze craftsmen from Bobo-Dioulasso where he works and helps them to reveal their artistic potential. The sculptor affirms the need to remain present in Burkina-Faso to work and develop a specific art rooted in this territory, despite the difficulties that this generates in artistic exchange and the dissemination of his work.
Christophe Person Head of Contemporary African Art, PIASA
Abou Traoré (né en 1960, Burkina Faso)
Bronze
45 x 25 x 21 cm
Estimation : 3780 / 5670 €
Abou Traoré (né en 1960, Burkina Faso)
Wassa-koun (lot 184)
Bronze
57 x 34 x 27 cm
Estimation : 3780 / 5670 €
